Riverview Community News

Get decked out for summer with a new Riverview shirt and cap, while helping us fundraise for our new permanent rink. This new rink will be sledge hockey compatible, with a hard asphalt surface, allowing for sports and activities in the summer, and earlier ice in the...

The St. Vital Bridge over the Red River is getting a makeover!  The City of Winnipeg has launched the St. Vital Bridge Rehabilitation project, which will guide the rehabilitation of the bridge over the Red River from concept to construction.  The project...

Sisters Anne (Babe) Bowman and Jean Affleck were fixtures of Fisher Street for decades, living most of their long lives in two homes on that street and building deep ties with their neighbours.  When they died within weeks of each other in 2020 it only made sense...

Mark your calendars for our Annual General Meeting on April 28th, 2022 at 6:30 pm at Riverview Community Centre.  This year we'll be voting on some proposed updates to our constitution and bylaws. Watch the video below by RVCC president Jason Oliver for a summary...

The Riverview Community Centre garage sales will be returning Saturday, May 28th, from 9 am to 3 pm. Final day for donations is Wednesday the 25th. With a difficult winter behind us, we are all looking forward to warm-weather activities. In the process of spring...

Bill Mason is probably one of the world's most well-known Riverviewers. He was an accomplished painter, filmmaker, author, two-time Academy Award nominee, a world-class canoeist, and the creator of a painting of the community centre in the 50s titled, “After the...

In the Fall, Age Friendly Riverview (AFR) was able to organize three excellent seminars for older adults and others in Riverview, called the CRISP lectures. The first was with Rod Kueneman from Lord Roberts in September on building soil health and using garden space...

In case you missed it, the City of Winnipeg released a State of the Urban Forest report in April 2021 that gave our city a “fair” grade.  Winnipeg’s canopy cover (the amount of the city covered by urban forest) is estimated at 17%, higher than other prairie...

Riverview’s 4×4 hockey tournament is returning this year on February 26th. Things are going to be run slightly differently this year, as we scale down the event in respect of public health. The tournament will be a one day event combining all divisions and the women’s...

Julie has been involved in helping organize Grey Hares from the very start, but before she joined, she’d never played hockey, and couldn’t skate backwards, never mind stop. For Julie Strong, and many other Riverview women like her, Grey Hares Hockey has been a way to...