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Rural drivers not wearing seatbelts and speed are leading causes of accidents causing death on rural Manitoba roads.
Brian Smiley, the MPI media relations coordinator, says there has been a 25 per cent increase in road fatalities.
"Non-seatbelt use is becoming very troublesome in rural Manitoba, we're really not sure why."
He suggests 50-60 percent of fatalities on rural roads happened because people weren’t wearing their seatbelts.
" People losing control, rolling over, occupants being thrown from the vehicles. they are either being rolled over by the vehicle, hitting a pole, hitting a rock. So non-seatbelt use is particularly troublesome in rural Manitoba."
Smiley says the number of cases of drivers losing control of their vehicle roads has also increased.
"Speed also adds to the severity of the crash. certainly, on gravel roads, they present their own challenges."
If a driver is on a gravel road there is a greater chance that a vehicle can lose control and hit a ditch.
In Manitoba, there have been 38 recorded fatalities compared to 28 last year.
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Parkland Rec Complex has installed a new lighting system in Credit Union Place.
They installed 44 LED lights that can be controlled independently with many dimming options.
They can dim to 30, 80, and 100 percent.
Wes Carneige, the Operations Manager for the Parkland Rec Complex, says with the lights there’s a lot more options for event’s that can be set up in the CUP.
“You can have a whole bunch of different scenarios to set up for different events.”
“For King Games, we can have all the lights off but one, if they want, and have it on the person singing O Canada if need be.”
For minor hockey, they can lower the efficiency of the lights, so rather than running them at 100% all the time they can run more efficiently.
In the near future, Carneige says the Parkland Rec Complex plans to install these lights in the pool and the curling rink.
The project was funded through a Manitoba hydro grant.
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Mountain View School Division is reviewing their bus routes again this year.
Donna Davidson, the superintendent/ CEO for the division, spoke with us about what they might plan to do.
“We’re looking at a reduction of another route within the 2018-19 school year.”
“We always review our bus routes for ride times and for efficiencies. We try out best to be as efficient as possible. The challenge we have, of course, is we are a very large geographical region. We have a lot of miles we cover in a day.”
Davidson continues saying, “It’s trying our best to have children on the bus, have the safest ride as possible, and the shortest ride as possible. Sometimes it just doesn’t work; sometimes they’re a little longer then we’d like them to be.”
Any route revisions will be tested over the summer to make sure if they are feasible to meet the student transportation times,
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An Ontario Bus company plans to offer routes in Manitoba that include stopping in Dauphin.
Kasper Transportation announced their immediate goal of setting up a route from Winnipeg to Thompson.
The route is expected to pass through Gimli, the Pas, and Dauphin.
The company says they’ll probably charge $125 per ticket each way. The cost of a Greyhound ticket to Thompson is $108.
The company already has services from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay.
They intend to add routes into Saskatchewan with service to Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert, expecting they will add four to five new routes.
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A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the Parkland.
Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that could be capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain.
A cold front moving through western saskatchewan is triggering thunderstorms this evening. These thunderstorms have the potential to last into the night and early morning as they track east into manitoba.
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The current round of Shop It Forward in the Parkland ends this week.
You only have until Friday to hand in your Shop it Forward cards to either Dauphin or Robin’s Chamber offices or to Community Futures Parkland in Grandview.
Stephen Chychota, the Chamber’s Executive Director, says there are some great prices that can be won.
“There’s obviously some direct benefit. Right on the card, they can choose from one of three prizes. So if their card is the lucky one that’s drawn they get the prize that they have picked.”
“So you can either win chamber bucks and those are from either the Dauphin Chamber or the Roblin Chamber. You can get an assortment of gift cards from businesses that have participated in the Shop It Forward Program, or a gift package which is going to be made up of some prizes from businesses.”
Chychota says when people shop locally it benefits everyone. By supporting local businesses, businesses can then turn and support other organizations and events.
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There are two road closers this week in Dauphin to work on water mains and sewer mains.
The first is 7th Ave NW, between Main Street N & River Ave W.
The second is River Ave W, between Vermillion St & Hedderly St.
They will reopen to traffic sometime on Thursday, July 12.
The city asks drivers to be prepared to detour.
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A 20 year old from the RM of Dauphin has died in a rollover early this morning.
Around 2:10, RCMP received a report of the collision on 147 Road North, approximately half a kilometre east of Provincial Road 362 in the RM of Dauphin.
The 20 year old was the only one in her SUV when it rolled. She was ejected.
She was brought to the hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.
She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and speed is believed to have played a role in the crash.
It’s unknown at this time whether alcohol was a factor in the collision.
A RCMP Forensic Collision Reconstructionist is assisting with the ongoing investigation.
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The trucker charged in the Humboldt Broncos crash has been released on $1,000 bail.
A judge in Melfort, Saskatchewan attached several conditions to the bail, telling 29-year-old Jaskirat Sidhu, who is from Calgary, that he cannot drive and that he must surrender his passport.
Sidhu made his first court appearance this morning on charges of 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily injury.
He is due back in court August 21st.
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Greyhound Canada announced they are ending bus routes in western Canada.
Dauphin Mayor Allen Dowhan says it will create a void in the community and will make it difficult for people to travel for medical appointments.
“I think it’s going to create a big void in our community. Going to be a problem for people to get to medical appointments and also for travel to see friends and relatives.”
“I don’t know, how maybe somebody or another company will come and fill the void.”
He says the news will be a big loss to the community.
“Shocking, I just couldn’t believe that this was happening to our community. It’s necessary for a lot of people to commute.”
Greyhound buses are scheduled to stop running on October 31st.
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The former president of the Keystone Ag Producers intends to run for the Conservative Party of Canada’s nomination in the riding representing Dauphin.
Dan Mazer made the announcement on Friday when he resigned as the President of KAP.
We spoke with Mazier to find out what some of his biggest priorities will be if he’s eventually elected to represent the riding.
“One of the rural issues that’s federal jurisdiction, that I had fought with a lot or heard a lot, yet nothing became of them was the was the digital infrastructure. Cell phone coverage, rule internet, that kind of federal/national issue hits our riding especially hard because it’s so rural and remote in some places. There’s no excuse for that. I want to get that message loud and clear.”
Mazier says he never considered running for government until recently.
“Something that I hadn’t considered up until Bob Sopuck announced that he was not running again and that opened up the constituency.”
“Then I started to get phone calls and people were telling me that I should consider it. It was throughout those conversations that I kind realized that I should consider it.”
Mazier is planning to come to the Dauphin area sometime, probably next week, to speak with supporters.
Mazier farms near Justice which is about a 24-minute drive north of Brandon.
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