The Clipper8 March 23, 2017

By Arlene DavidsonGreg Short and Hannah Juenke of the Lac du Bonnet Lions Club paid a visit

to the Lac du Bonnet Personal Care Home on March 10 to deliver a cheque for $600 as their annual donation to the residents council.

Katherine Schichl accepted the donation on behalf of her fellow residents, and was very grateful to receive the contribution that will be used to enhance the environment at the PCH and allow the residents and staff to plan for special events and entertainment.

“We keep our senior citizens close to our hearts,” said Short, who is the current president of the LdB Lions Club. “They built this community and this country, and they are very deserving of a quality life.”

By Arlene DavidsonA Manitoba delegation with

Pinawa connections will be travelling to China on April 14 to discuss potential collabora-tion on education, tourism, trade and technology exchange.

Led by Shane Li, Economic Development Officer for the LGD of Pinawa, the delegation will be in China for 12 days and will visit the cities of Shanghai, Wenzhou and Heze.

“This trip aims to promote our region and Manitoba as a whole, and further strengthen our relationship with China,” said Li. “In addition, we will also meet the Government of Canada Consul General in Shanghai to discuss interna-tional collaboration.”

The delegation members include Li, Pinawa Commu-nity Development Corporation (PCDC) board member and Pinawa Mayor Blair Skin-ner, and Whiteshell School Division superintendent Tim Stefanishyn. Yong Liu, a Win-nipeg entrepreneur will join the delegation to build a platform for Manitoba in the hope of establishing meaningful con-nections with Chinese manufac-turers. The final member of the visiting team is Zhaojian Zhang, General Manager at Cannetic

Travel, Winnipeg office. Zhang has been working

closely with Pinawa to promote Eastern Manitoba for interna-tional tourism and believes that there is great potential for tour-ism business in China.

He noted that approximately 500,000 tourists from China visit Canada every year, and that most of them are not aware of Pinawa or Manitoba.

“Zhang said he is confident that there will be many parties that would like to work with us and travel to Manitoba once they realize the beauty of our region and the richness of our culture,” said Li.

World Trade Centre Win-nipeg, Travel Manitoba and the Winnipeg Chamber of Com-merce have provided support, information and promotional materials the delegation will present while in China to high-light and encourage potential areas of future collaboration.

While visiting the cities of Shanghai, Wenzhou and Heze, delegation members will meet with local officials and tour many facilities including their World Trade Centre and the Caohejing Incubator in Shanghai – the largest high-tech business and technology park in Asia.

Li said the delegation will

meet with the general manager of the Caohejing Incubator and discuss partnerships in terms of technology exchange and to explore the potential of working with Manitoba to better help entrepreneurs in both countries.

Li said the technology park has helped establish 3,000 busi-nesses including 131 Fortune 500 companies.

Li said that Wenzhou City will host a Manitoba informa-tion session that will profile life in general in Manitoba, with specific focus on education, investment opportunities and tourism.

The delegation will also visit Chinese high schools and ex-plore the potential opportunity for the development of an in-ternational education program.

“We will have the opportu-nity to meet the Heze mayor and other senior government officers in different sectors to discuss economic development and trading from both micro and macro perspective,” ex-plained Li.

Skinner hopes the visit will attract new business and in-vestments in Pinawa and the province of Manitoba.

“We have already started working on ideas with Cannetic Travel and hope to develop a tourism strategy,” said Skinner.

Photos by Arlene DavidsonTim Stefanishyn (left),

Shane Li and Blair Skinner (inset) will be

leaving for China on April 14.

Pinawa delegation to discuss collaboration in China

Photo by Arlene DavidsonHannah Juenke (left), Katherine Schichl and Greg Short enjoy some social

time during a donation to the PCH residents council from the Lac du Bonnet Lions Club.

Lions enhance lives of LdB seniors

LdB Library Corner

SPRING INTO THE LIBRARY

The Lac du Bonnet Re-gional Library invites chil-dren living in, or visiting the community during Spring Break to Spring into the Library, for just one or all three days.

Tuesday, March 28 from 10:30 a.m. to noon we are going to have some Puppet Fun.

Wednesday, March 29 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., the Lac du Bonnet Regional Library and the Lac du Bonnet and District Historical Society present Wool Carding, as demonstrated by Skylor Mitchell.

Thursday, March 30 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., ‘It’s all about Easter.’ Enjoy reading new books, crafts, refresh-ments and great company. Registration is encouraged. Contact the Library for fur-ther details.

MARCH MADNESSLast chance to take ad-

vantage of our clearing out prices on magazines at 25 cents each or ‘a bag for a buck’ and Harlequin Romance paperbacks right now selling out at five for $1, while quantities last.

Mark your calendars! The library will be hosting Celebrating Stories on April 20, 2017. Keep tuned for further details.

WHAT’S NEW?

To avoid a media circus when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Depart-ment is transferred to the desolate outback to inves-tigate the disappearance of a mine worker. In the Never Never, she uncovers an insular society that has sprung up around the mine. It’s a world full of easy money, plenty of immoral ways to spend it, and no shortage of suspects. Harry must get to the bottom of the mine’s mysteries before she vanishes into the wilds for good, in Never Never, the first novel in the Har-riet Blue series by James Patterson and Candice Fox.

Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of the

U.S., in Ring of Fire, the eleventh Pike Logan thriller by Brad Taylor.

In The Chicago Way, the first novel in a new series by Michael Harvey, Chicago P.I. Michael Kelly agrees to look into an eight-year-old rape and battery case for his former partner John Gib-bons, but the case becomes personal when Gibbons is found murdered on Navy Pier, and Kelly soon finds himself facing the mob, a serial killer, and his own double-crossing friends in his pursuit of the truth.

The Trailsman by John Sharpe is back in Nevada Vipers Nest; and Six-Gun Inferno. The Gunsmith returns in Louisiana Stalker and The Salt City Scrape by J.R. Roberts.

Catalogue and events details available at www.lacdubonnetlibrary.ca