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With plastic pollution continuing to be a growing global issue the Dauphin Co-op is committed to making a difference.
For the Co-op reducing plastic waste is a priority which is why they announced yesterday that beginning Tuesday, February 1 the Dauphin Co-op Food Store will eliminate single-use plastic bags in order to help to preserve the environment for future generations, one bag at a time.
Shoppers are being reminded to bring their reusable bags each time they visit but they do have a variety of reusable bags available for purchase including new, value-priced reusable bags which are 3 for $1 with other sustainable options including paper bags and totes available.
For more information about Dauphin Co-op visit their website here.
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The Dauphin RCMP had a busy year in 2021.
In the City of Dauphin, there were 4,811 calls reported, and they actioned 4,598 of those calls. There were 114 traffic collisions reported, 571 traffic offences, and 70 impaired operation offences for drugs or alcohol.
The top five complaints they received were;
- Mischief - 399
- Mental Health Act calls - 266
- Suspicious Person, Vehicle, or Property - 232
- Common Assault - 171
- Disturbing the Peace - 168
In the Parkland Rural area, there were 1,802 calls reported, and they actioned 1,737 of those calls. There were 67 traffic collisions reported, 322 traffic offences, and 54 impaired operation offences for drugs or alcohol.
The top five complaints they received were;
- Mischief - 109
- Suspicious Person, Vehicle, or Property - 70
- Mental Health Act calls - 57
- Common Assault - 46
- False Alarms - 45
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Last week the Dauphin RCMP responded to a call of a man in a house with a knife, but he fled on foot before police got there. They found 30-year-old Kyle Sutherland nearby, and when they approached him, he pulled out the knife. The confrontation ended with Sutherland being tased and safely arrested.
Sutherland made his second court appearance in Dauphin yesterday, where he admitted to the charges and was sentenced to six months in jail, with a ten-year weapons ban.
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Some students and staff at the DRCSS have had to make a last-minute move as the first week of in-person learning in 2022 nears an end.
An air handling unit in the northeast corner of the classroom wing at the Dauphin high school broke down last week while kids were still learning remotely. As a result, staff and students have been moved out of the area while the unit is replaced.
The school is working with an HVAC company to get replacement parts but the repair could take six to eight weeks. MVSD has said they expect that all of the air handling units in the school will be replaced by the summer of 2023.
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The Parkland Chamber of Commerce has started accepting nominations for their annual awards. The deadline to submit a nomination is February 11th. Any business or business person in the Parkland can be nominated for the awards, they don't have to be a part of the chamber.
There are five awards being given out this year;
- Business Person of the Year
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year
- Community Appreciation Individual
- Community Appreciation Group
- Outstanding Business
You can nominate someone for the awards here.
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UPDATE: According to the Portage la Prairie RCMP, Coltyn Gretsinger has been safely located.
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The Portage la Prairie RCMP got a report just after 9 am today, that 14-year-old Coltyn Gretsinger was missing.
This morning around 2 am, Coltyn left a house on Highway 26 near High Bluff in a vehicle. The vehicle was found abandoned in a ditch, about 3 km from the house. Items belonging to Coltyn were found near the vehicle.
Coltyn is 5’5” with a slender build, short black hair, and brown eyes. It is believed he is wearing a black winter coat with fur around the hood.
If you have any information please call Portage la Prairie RCMP at 204-857-8767, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477, or report it securely here.
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UPDATE: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota has released a statement saying that a 47-year-old man from Florida has been charged with human smuggling in connection with the incident.
Steve Shand was arrested on Wednesday by U.S. Border Patrol when they stopped a 15 person van that Shand was driving. Inside the van were two passengers who did not have documentation.
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The Manitoba RCMP is investigating after finding four bodies near the Canada U.S. border yesterday after information sent to them by their counterparts in the U.S.
The info from US Customs and Border Protection was sent to the RCMP after they had arrested a group of people that crossed from Canada into the US near Emerson. While the individuals were being questioned they found items on them for an infant but they did not have an infant with them.
The RCMP were alerted that there were possibly more people trying to cross the border in the area but were not found at the time so the Mounties began patrols of the areas in and around the border.
After a search the RCMP were able to locate 4 bodies in the area with them being identified as:
- An adult male
- An adult female
- An infant
- A male believed to be in his mid-teens
The victims were located within 40 feet of the US border and within the early parts of the investigation, it’s believed that they all died due to the exposure to the extreme cold but work will continue to identify who the victims are and confirm their cause of death.
The RCMP continued their search in order to make sure there were no other victims with none having been found to date.
The RCMP along with US Customs and Border Protection and the US Department of Homeland Security continue their investigations and we’ll have more as it comes available.
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The Assiniboine Community College has announced that they have partnered with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples to deliver a new program at their Brandon Campus.
The new program is a tuition-free Agriculture Equipment Operator program that is open to Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) people living off-reserve beginning February 28, 2022.
The program will train the students to work on skills for a variety of farm operations including grain/oilseed and pulse forage operations. During the program, students will gain skills with all types of equipment, systems and safety regulations in the hopes of getting a job in the agriculture industry.
The program will offer a wide variety of in-class material as well as hands-on training to work a variety of Canadian farms. Students will be attending in-person classes full-time in Brandon as well as travelling to a practicum farm site.
The 13-week program includes:
- a 1-week preparatory course component (February 28, 2022 to March 4, 2022)
- an 11-week Agriculture Equipment Operator program, and finally (March 7, 2022 to May 13, 2022)
- an 80-hour paid work placement (May 16, 2022 to May 27, 2022)
Anyone interested in this program must attend an online information session either this afternoon at 2 pm or January 25 at 2 pm as part of their application.
For all the information about the course head to the colleges' website here.
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South Korea has lifted its temporary suspension of Canadian beef imports that were imposed after an atypical B-S-E case was confirmed in an Alberta cow last month.
It was Canada's first B-S-E case in six years and prompted three countries -- South Korea, China and the Philippines to establish restrictions.
South Korea imports about 90-million dollars worth of Canadian beef per year.
An atypical case can occur naturally in older cattle on rare occasions, while classical B-S-E is caused by a cow eating contaminated feed.
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The Dakota Tipi First Nation, near Portage La Prairie, has received funding from the Federal Government to search residential school sites in five communities. The communities include Sandy Bay, Portage la Prairie, Assiniboia, Brandon, and Fort Alexander.
Dakota Tipi Cheif, Eric Pashe, talked about the historic agreement in a news release;
"This is a historic time for the Dakota people. The time has now come for our history to be properly told."
A survivor-led committee will search each of the sites and will research records from the Catholic Church, Hudson's Bay Company, and the Winnipeg-based National Centre of Truth and Reconciliation.
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The Manitoba Government announced this afternoon with Health Minister Audrey Gordon that the province is shifting their methods for the screening of colon cancer as well as hiring more anesthesia clinical assistants and sending some spinal surgery patients to the U.S for their procedures.
This announcement came in a press conference held at the Manitoba legislature today with regards to the steps that the diagnostic and surgical recovery task force held.
The task force announced that it’s working with the Maples Surgical Centre as well as other local partners in order to increase gynecological surgeries as nearly 3,000 women are waiting for care with almost two-thirds of which can be taken care of in day surgeries.
They also announced that they are introducing a new way to screen for colon cancer which will provide more accurate results and will reduce the need for an endoscopic procedure.
The province is also preparing a plan to train and hire up to 13 new anesthesia clinical assistants across the province over the next three years.
The final part of the conference was that the province is working on an agreement with Sanford Health in Fargo, North Dakota to help with spinal surgeries as a part of Manitoba’s out-of-province Medical Referral Program.
Minister Gordon announced the creation of the Diagnostic and Surgical Recovery Task Force in December 2021. The work of the task force builds on existing provincial investments and measures to reduce waitlists and support access to care.
The province has already invested more than $8.8 million in agreements with public and private service providers, resulting in a net increase of more than 9,000 procedures completed in 2021-22 including cataract surgery, echocardiography, hernia surgery, pediatric dental surgery, spine surgery and endoscopy.
For more on the announcement head to the Governments website here.
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