By Donald Sutherland – Prairie Messenger, March 12, 2014
The centuries-old relentless persecution of Jews living in Russia and Europe reached a feverish pitch during the Kiev Pogrom in 1905. Facing certain death, the Henteleff family sought safety in Canada in 1907, eventually settling in 1924 on a 40-acre parcel of land in St. Vital, Man., situated along the Red River …
The Winnipeg Foundation has produced a pamphlet highlighting Henteleff Park. Please click below to download (PDF).
Adrian Zoldy (left) removes a basswood tree from a pot under the direction of a park employee. (Photo by M. Zoldy)
Around 75 individuals got down and dirty recently at Henteleff Park during an annual spring tree planting event. Key organizer and local resident Mark Zoldy said approximately 100 trees were planted at the park, located at 1964 St. Mary’s Rd., on June 15. Refreshments were served, courtesy of Gunn’s Bakery, and the project was supported by the Walmart-Evergreen Green Grant Program, Zoldy said.
The event was sandwiched between an early morning birding hike, led by Nature Manitoba members Gord and Jaye Grieef, when 17 individuals identified 26 species of bird, and the Henteleff Park Foundation’s annual general meeting.
Courtesy of The Lance
Grade 6 students of Niakwa Place School created an excellent video called The History of St. Vital.
Different students interview Yude Henteleff and his story of growing up in St. Vital. He recalls his one classroom school, growing up on his father’s farm (part of which is now Henteleff Park), the 1956 flood, and changes in St. Vital leading up to today.
Grab a shovel, some work gloves, your friends, family and neighbours, and come plant a few trees and bushes with us!
We hope to see you there! Refreshments and food served, courtesy of Gunn’s Bakery.
Bring your binoculars and join Gord and Jaye Grieef for an early morning walk around the park. These Nature Manitoba members have documented over 50 species of birds in the diverse habitats that the park has to offer.
Learn to identify bird species by both sight and sound with help from these expert birders. Come along and see how many different species you can spot.
Meet at the parking lot at 8 AM, Saturday June 15, 2013
Henteleff Park Foundation has developed a fully articulated and visionary plan to build a comprehensive interpretive centre at the park. This facility will provide an educational context for the priceless local and environmental heritage of this beautiful and historically significant riverside park.
The planned 1,500-square-foot interpretive centre will replicate the farmhouses that dotted the riverbank a century ago and will feature galleries will explore the four main themes of the park.
We’re very excited about the future of the park and this new facility. Won’t you join us?
Join naturalist Marilyn Latta, of Nature Manitoba, for a leisurely evening stroll through the park. We’ll check out the flowers in the prairie planters and prairie restoration and then wander farther back in the park. Although primarily a plant walk, we will look at birds, butterflies and anything else that runs, flies or crawls by!
**Note, our flyer said Saturday. It is actually on a WEDNESDAY**