RIVERS — A new mural has been painted in Rivers to commemorate history in the community.

The Rivers Train Station Restoration Committee hosted a ribbon cutting on Sept. 24 to designate a new mural on the side of the Westoba Credit Union building. The mural depicts a bicycle, a globe, a factory, blossoms and ribbons.

Committee member Donna Morken told the Sun the mural is about a former bicycle factory that operated in the ’70s and early ’80s near Rivers. The factory was a partnership within Canada, but also across the Pacific Ocean.

“It’s an amazing historical event that nobody really thinks about,” Morken said. “This is a country from another side of the world that came to produce bicycles here.”

Sekine, a Japanese bicycle brand, set up the factory near Rivers from 1973 to 1981. It op

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