{"id":197887,"date":"2026-09-06T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197887\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:15:49","slug":"all-thats-done-for-fun-in-the-sun-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197887\/","title":{"rendered":"All that\u2019s done for fun in the sun \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our \u2018One Day\u2019 feature<\/a> is just as it sounds: Each month, we spend one day documenting the everyday work that helps keep our communities going. If you know an organization, program or person you think readers would be fascinated to follow, drop writer Melissa Martin a line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 21, 10:10 a.m.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nobody on the beach at St. Malo Provincial Park yet, though there\u2019s certain to be plenty of visitors later. It\u2019s shaping up to be a hot late-August Friday in southern Manitoba; the forecast warns of a thunderstorm in the late afternoon, but that won\u2019t stop Manitobans from flocking to savour one of the last great beach days of the summer.<\/p>\n

On a typical such weekend, this park, situated just an hour\u2019s drive southeast of Winnipeg, can squeeze up to 2,000 guests onto the sandy crescent of its expansive main beach, and about 600 more on its other bathing-ready shore, which is nestled near the campground and thus long called Camper Beach.<\/p>\n

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A tractor smooths out the beach in St. Malo Provincial Park and scapes away goose feces in an attempt to reduce E. coli levels in the water.<\/p>\n

For now, though, the scene around the lake is quiet and picture-perfect. The morning sun sparkles on the lake\u2019s placid grey surface. A gaggle of Canada geese swim lazily, honking at each other. As park manager Bill Prevost pulls up on the beach in a golf cart, he nods at the birds with a wink.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid we tell you about the rule?\u201d Prevost quips. \u201cIf you come here, you have to take four geese back with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regretfully, we have to decline this kind offer \u2014 Winnipeg has plenty enough geese already, thanks \u2014 but one empathizes with Prevost\u2019s position. The geese are a problem, for the obvious reason: they poop everywhere. So every morning, before visitors arrive, park staff comb the sand and grass around the lake, cleaning up as much as they can.<\/p>\n

People often don\u2019t see that work, Prevost says, but it takes a lot of labour just to get the beach ready for daily guests. As we speak, a park staffer is driving a front-end loader in slow half-circles over the beach, smoothing the sand where construction of the previous day\u2019s sandcastles left it pitted.<\/p>\n

So right now, with most of the grooming done but visitors not yet arrived, the beach looks pristine. Still, the geese have left lingering traces of their presence in other ways.<\/p>\n

At the edge of the beach, Tylo Chadney sets a cooler on a low table, then pulls on a pair of hip waders. She selects two empty plastic bottles from inside the cooler, then slowly walks into the water until it reaches her waist. She fills one bottle from the lake, walks a short distance, then fills the other. Fresh samples in hand, she returns to her cooler of equipment.<\/p>\n

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Before visitors arrive, Tylo Chadney collects and documents samples to monitor E. coli levels.<\/p>\n

Chadney is a beach-monitoring specialist with the province\u2019s Environment and Climate Change Department, working on a team that tests the water quality at 57 Manitoba beaches. The schedule for each varies according to the results: usually, St. Malo is tested on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n

But since E. coli levels in the lake exceeded provincial guidelines in early August, specialists have come to sample the water at least once per week, sometimes more. The exceedances have not been severe; enough to post signs advising of the raised levels, and let the public decide if they want to swim or not.<\/p>\n

Is it all the birds\u2019 fault?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say 100 per cent, but that is definitely a contributing factor for St. Malo, specifically,\u201d Chadney says.<\/p>\n

Chadney has been working in water quality with the province since 2020; she\u2019s been in this role since early July. She loves the field work, getting out into the parks, and it\u2019s been really interesting dealing with the public, she says. People often ask what the beach testers are doing; it gives them a chance to spread the word about provincial resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are concerned about the quality of their water,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is the first job I\u2019ve had where I feel like I\u2019m actually making impactful work here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chadney is a beach-monitoring specialist with the province\u2019s Environment and Climate Change Department that tests the water quality at 57 Manitoba beaches.<\/p>\n

She packs today\u2019s samples inside the cooler. She\u2019ll drop them off at the lab later; they have to incubate for at least 12 hours before it\u2019s time to test them. The data will be ready the next day, and the results posted on the provincial beach-monitoring website soon after that.<\/p>\n

Then Chadney is off, bound for her next stop at the Plum Coulee Reservoir, about an hour\u2019s drive west.<\/p>\n

10:40 a.m.<\/p>\n

As the sun climbs a little closer to its midday peak, visitors start to trickle in to St. Malo Beach.<\/p>\n

On the sand, two families are setting up a prime spot under shady umbrellas. A short distance away, on a small promontory bordered by low bushes, Cyrus Funk, 15, and his 13-year-old brother Jack stand casting fishing lines into the water. Nearby, their mother Robynne watches from a picnic table.<\/p>\n

St. Malo is not a natural lake, but it is a thriving one. It was established in 1958, when water shortages in the area spurred a decision to dam the nearby Rat River, creating a reservoir for agricultural and community use. Locals quickly flocked to the lake to swim. Three years later, the pretty area was designated under the fresh Provincial Parks Act.<\/p>\n

Today, the lake is well-stocked with fish, including pike, walleye, perch, bullhead and freshwater drum. Motorized boats aren\u2019t allowed on the water, which also reduces fishing pressure. There are a few popular fishing spots dotted around the shore, with one closer to the campground tending to have better luck, park staff say.<\/p>\n

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The lake is well-stocked with pike, walleye, perch, bullhead and freshwater drum, but they weren\u2019t biting for brothers Cyrus (left), 15, and Jack Funk, 13, on this day.<\/p>\n

So far this morning, not much is biting for the Funk brothers. Jack reels in his line and pulls up a fistful of water plants, sighing as he starts to untangle it from the lure. No worries. They fish all the time, on this lake or others, and their mom enjoys the chance to get out as a family and unwind amid green woods and fresh air.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s relaxation for them,\u201d Robynne says, and chuckles. \u201cThere are a lot worse things teens could be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

By now, the beach day is in full swing. It\u2019s not as busy as park staff predicted \u2014 maybe the fear of thunderstorms kept more visitors away after all \u2014 but families still throng the sand and shady picnic area nearby. And as the midday heat reaches its peak, many of those visitors are beginning to crave a cool, sweet treat.<\/p>\n

Luckily, they have the perfect spot nearby.<\/p>\n

Nestled in the trees a short walk from the beach is a longtime park fixture, The Barefoot Caf\u00e9. The main building is quaint, a white 1960s-era wood structure with walk-up service windows and a distinct hint of modernist design. Next to the caf\u00e9, a bright-red vintage-styled trolley bus rests in the shade, with a menu of ice cream options posted on the side.<\/p>\n

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Kerri Kosawa co-owns The Barefoot Cafe with her husband. Business, not surprisingly, is tied to weather.<\/p>\n

From the bus\u2019s order window, Kerri Kosawa greets a customer with a welcoming smile. \u201cHello, how can I help you today?\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the 10th season Kosawa and her husband, Hiroki, have been running the caf\u00e9 here. They\u2019re not park employees \u2014 they own the business, the bus and the retro caf\u00e9\u2019s building, but they lease the land from the park \u2014 though they are very much integrated into the friendly community of workers who keep the park\u2019s daily life going.<\/p>\n

To Kosawa, how they ended up at St. Malo still feels a little bit like fate.<\/p>\n

She grew up in nearby Morris; her husband is from Japan. They met while she was teaching English there, and settled back in Manitoba together. They started a family, which now includes three young children, and a food-truck business, rolling all over the province to feed people at various festivals and fairs.<\/p>\n

One year, when their eldest child was just a baby, they\u2019d set up at the Hanover Agricultural Exhibition in Grunthal. It\u2019s an \u201cawesome fair,\u201d Kosawa says, and laughs: \u201cBut they weren\u2019t interested in our food. It was a disaster.\u201d After a day of selling almost nothing, the couple packed up and started to head home, feeling a little defeated.<\/p>\n

Then Kosawa remembered going to St. Malo as a kid. They were just a 15-minute drive away; perhaps a beach visit would be the pick-me-up they needed, she thought. As they strolled around the park, cradling their infant, it did lift their spirits \u2014 and then they spotted a \u201cFor Sale\u201d sign on the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Annika Peetsma serves up ice cream for visitors
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\u201cI thought, \u2018oh my God, it\u2019s meant to be, we\u2019re going to buy it,\u2019\u201d Kosawa says. \u201cThen we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, the quaint beachside caf\u00e9 has become the couple\u2019s main business. They crafted a simple menu of crowd-pleasing beach classics: hot dogs, poutine and burgers \u2014 including, as a nod to Japan, a pork katsu burger. In their second year at St. Malo, they bought the red trolley bus from a seller in California, then drove it home and turned it into the ice cream stand.<\/p>\n

Running a beach caf\u00e9 isn\u2019t always easy. There was a \u201csteep learning curve,\u201d Kosawa says. The original caf\u00e9 building needs a lot of maintenance, and that\u2019s their problem, not the park\u2019s. The weather can have an unpredictable effect on both sales and their stock. Get a rainy weekend, and nobody comes. Get a hot one, and you risk running out of ice cream.<\/p>\n

But for the Kosawas, the caf\u00e9 has offered the perfect balance of work, fun and family. They employ about 15 eager young staff members to help out. Kerri and her husband trade days managing the kitchen while the other gets to stay home with the kids. Above all, they love serving visitors here to help make the same precious memories she herself recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really nice because most people are here to relax,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes, when we would do the food trucks, if we were downtown in the city, people are on a time schedule. They\u2019re on their lunch hour, they\u2019ve got to go. So it\u2019s a bit faster. Here, most people are generally happy. And to work with happy people all day, it just feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the bus, Kosawa sets about heaping bubblegum ice cream onto a cone, to hand to a waiting customer.<\/p>\n

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Bookings of the newly built mini cabins on Sunset Shores were snapped up immediately. <\/p>\n

1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n

On the shores of St. Malo Lake, across from the main beach, six new wooden structures sit facing the water. Other than a family of geese (of course) resting on the grass near one of the little buildings, nobody is staying here \u2014 yet. In just a few days, these will officially open for business, and provincial officials are excited.<\/p>\n

These are the park\u2019s brand-new mini cabins, and this year they\u2019ve brought a lot of buzz to St. Malo. The teensy cabins are a new offering in Manitoba\u2019s provincial parks, building on the same \u201ccomfort camping\u201d concept as the wildly popular cabins and yurts elsewhere in the parks system.<\/p>\n

The mini cabins were announced earlier this summer, though they\u2019d been in the works for a while. When reservations for the cabins opened just a few days before our visit, all the available dates were snapped up within seconds; even some of the park\u2019s own staff tried to reserve their own stays, to no avail.<\/p>\n

Now, just three days before the cabins welcome their first guests, two of the project\u2019s leaders are on-site to make a few final checks. At the first of the cosy cabins, Manitoba Parks facilities development manger Rebecca Lauhn-Jensen and provincial landscape architect Ryan Wakshinski, who designed the sites, invite us to see inside.<\/p>\n

The cabins are brand-new. They smell like fresh lumber. Inside each are two bunk beds, which can sleep six, a small kitchen area and a dining table; outside, there\u2019s a shaded metal table for outdoor food prep, a niche set into an outer wall where visitors can store beach toys or kayaks, and wide ramps for wheelchair users to access the spacious deck.<\/p>\n

Those decks are the clearly the mini cabins\u2019 star features. Each of the structures was designed and angled to facilitate a beautiful view over the water. It\u2019s a very intentional integration with the environment; though the cabins are set in a more grassy and open part of St. Malo\u2019s campground, their orientation makes them feel private.<\/p>\n

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The Sunset Shores mini cabins are a new offering in Manitoba\u2019s provincial parks, building on the same concept as the wildly popular yurts at other parks.<\/p>\n

That was a lesson designers had taken from other similar initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the yurt sites early on, they would just put them on regular campground sites,\u201d Wakshinski says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t as special. So we worked to put (the cabins) in special locations that are waterfront as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

There will be more mini cabins coming to Manitoba; the next set has already been announced for Camp Morton. So as the project reps walk around the site, they\u2019re already making notes on what to improve in the future. For instance, Wakshinski points at the shelves beside the beds; he\u2019s heard feedback suggesting they should be positioned closer to the electrical outlets.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom our perspective, we\u2019re always looking for the problems,\u201d Lauhn-Jensen says, with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

But overall, they\u2019re pleased with how it turned out, and excited to see if guests feel the same.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI like how bright they are inside,\u201d Wakshinski says. \u201cThese will be nice and airy and spacious.\u201d<\/p>\n

2:10 p.m.<\/p>\n

The rain is just starting to drizzle as park manager Bill Prevost guides his golf cart down tree-lined paths into the park\u2019s campground. It\u2019s still early for the big Friday-afternoon check-in rush; many of the campground\u2019s 412 sites are unoccupied. That won\u2019t last: most of the spots are booked for the weekend, although there are still 52 available for the night.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the campground is a community unto itself. Campground staff get to know many of their regulars, and even their preference of spots. Those who come here often scout out favourite locations. Bay 11, Site 29 is a prime one \u2014 it backs out close to the water \u2014 and in Bay 6, there are two sites that are closest to access points for kayaks and canoes.<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t already know where they want to go, campground staff are happy to help match them with the right spot. Autumn Ewen, who works in the campground office, prides herself on helping first-time visitors navigate the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have people coming in and they\u2019ve never been here before, we typically ask if they want a campsite that\u2019s more open, or if they want more privacy,\u201d Ewen says. \u201cWe can narrow it down on our end, and figure out what they want. That\u2019s cool to be able to work on that for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, most familiar of all, are the seasonal campers, who each spring jostle to snap up one of a limited number of sites available to rent for an entire summer, co-ordinating with other regulars to get spots close to each other. Some of the seasonals have been coming to St. Malo for 30 years or more, and Prevost knows many by name.<\/p>\n

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Liene Davison is the park interpreter.<\/p>\n

Even more gratifying for campground staff is when campers manage to snag a summer-long spot for their first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also nice to get people who have never had a seasonal before, because you get to see how excited they are, and all the questions they have,\u201d Ewen says.<\/p>\n

Now, under drips of rain, Prevost turns the golf cart past the seasonal campsites. Many of the campers have decorated their spots with lights, flags or even jaunty signs bearing their names. Tucked in one site sits a bright-blue Bluebird camper bus; the woman inside pokes her head out of the window to chat about her experience spending the summer here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d she starts to say.<\/p>\n

At that moment, the dark clouds over St. Malo open up and a torrential wall of rain begins to pour on the campground. In the distance, lightning flashes. There\u2019s a severe thunderstorm warning in effect. The seasonal campers are cosy and dry in their trailers, but the same can\u2019t be said for two Free Press reporters in golf carts.<\/p>\n

We planned to spend one day here; it\u2019s been slightly interrupted. That\u2019s how things go, in the life of a provincial park.<\/p>\n

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Sam Hicock and Zo\u00e9 Preteau clear out a fire pit as part of the Green Team park maintenance in St. Malo Provincial Park.<\/p>\n

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Four days after that storm, the skies over St. Malo are clear, the campground is dry \u2014 and also, remarkably peaceful. There aren\u2019t many campers here on a Tuesday afternoon. The bulk of the weekend crowd is gone. The seasonal campsites are also quiet, waiting for their working owners to return at the end of the week.<\/p>\n

So as Darren LeBlanc and his wife, Lisa, relax in the shade of their season-long campsite, beside their sleek trailer, it almost feels as if they have the whole campground to themselves. That\u2019s one of the things they cherish about spending the entire summer here. It\u2019s so close to Winnipeg, yet out amid the trees and the quiet, everything is at peace.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s exactly the experience they hoped for. In 2024, after LeBlanc retired from a long career with Boeing, the couple bought their trailer and scored one of the prized seasonal sites at St. Malo. It was a \u201cgreat transition,\u201d LeBlanc says, an ideal way to enter retirement life by just getting out of the city, and getting away from it all.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know how some people retire, and they don\u2019t know what to do with themselves?\u201d LeBlanc says, and gestures at the idyllic greenery that envelops their campsite. \u201cWell, I already had a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, after their second full season here \u2014 they spent last summer in Northern Ontario, where LeBlanc grew up \u2014 they\u2019ve come to know the park well. It\u2019s bigger than some visitors might think, LeBlanc says. When they take their bikes for a ride around the trails, they can be gone for well over an hour. If they kayak the whole lake, it\u2019s at least an hour and a half.<\/p>\n

The one thing they\u2019d like to see change is the length of the season: the St. Malo Campground closes in mid-September, but they\u2019d stay until October if they could. Otherwise, they have a guest tent sent up. The birds are chirping in the trees. They have a firepit grill, and fresh air, and shade.<\/p>\n

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Darren and Lisa LeBlanc at their seasonal campsite. The retirees would happily extend their stay into October, but the park closes in mid-September.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all you need to make a day in one of Manitoba\u2019s parks pretty darn good.<\/p>\n

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