Full Day of Entertainment at Tomorrow's Street Fair
We`re one day away from downtown Dauphin's biggest party of the year.
The Dauphin Street Fair runs all day tomorrow.
Stephen Chychota from the local chamber of commerce was in the CKDM studio yesterday. He says there's so much talented entertainment coming.
"Prairie Dust... The 32... Party Time Orchestra... Revolving Doors...Brendan Chartrand... Morgan Lane... Zirka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Bratstva School of Dance... Al Simmons... Bob Thompson... Chris Barker Band... Tere and Friends... 10 Stone... Refusion... and Kate's Outlaw."
Chychota says they can always use more volunteers, particularly for clean up.
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Property Taxes Due This Week
Dauphinites have until Friday to pay property taxes without penalty.
The city says on its website that although property taxes are due July 31, the last business day before that is this Friday.
Anyone who hasn't paid up as of August 1 will be subject to penalties.
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Manitoba So Far Safe from Saskatchewan Oil Spill
The situation is being monitored, but for now Manitoba Sustainable Development says there's no immediate threat to this province from an oil spill in Saskatchewan.
An estimated 200-250 cubic meters of Husky Energy oil spilled into the North Saskatchewan River last week.
Manitoba says its receiving regular updates on the cleanup and there are no risks to water supplies in any Manitoba communities at this time.
Still, discussions are underway with The Pas to determine alternative water sources.
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Charges Laid After Assaults in Brandon Jail
Brandon police have charged four inmates in two separate, unrelated assaults at Brandon Correctional Centre.
Three young men -- a 21-year-old and two 24-year-olds -- were in court yesterday on assault causing bodily harm charges.
The victim suffered facial injuries in that attack.
On Sunday a 29-year-old man was arrested after he punched a fellow inmate in the face.
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Farewell to Philae
The European Space Agency is switching off its radio link to the probe that landed on a comet, after receiving no signal from the lander for a year.
It says the decision to shut down a communications instrument on the Rosetta spacecraft today was taken to conserve energy.
Rosetta had used the instrument to communicate with its lander, Philae, which touched down on a comet in November 2014.
Rosetta will use its remaining power to conduct scientific measurements before it crash-lands on the comet September 30th.
