A house on Highway 52 east of Steinbach has been approved by the La Broquerie Council to be used as a bed and breakfast.

Reeve Lewis Weiss says a group came forward to council for permission to turn a residence into a temporary lodging space. Weiss says council thought it was a good idea and approved the request.

Sandra Toews and her sisters Edna Wiebe, Elaine Enns, and Judy Moyer are the owners of the family run Rustic Wedding Barn between Steinbach and La Broquerie. She says together they purchased an adjacent house.

“The neighbours that have owned this house are a little close to our property, so we offered to buy them out. The house is actually a great house because it was built in 1889, it is an Eatons kit house, it is a very cool property.”

Toews says along with their father Peter Wiebe they are in the process of renovating the two story home into a bed and breakfast that can house as many as six people.

“We decided we would turn it into a bed and breakfast. Mostly we are thinking it is going to probably be helpful to us in the Wedding business, we can use it as a honeymoon suite. Whenever someone books the barn we have that offer to them that they can book that separately and use it”