Manitoba Maple Syrup Festival Returns

Coming up next weekend on Friday April 8^th and Saturday April 9^th the McCreary Manitoba Maple Syrup Festival returns for another year with events happening across the McCreary area.

The events are sure to be fun for the entire family with a drive-in movie on Friday night with Sing 2 as the feature film as well as events throughout the day on Saturday including a tourtiere dinner at the McCreary Community Centre.

Visitors will be able to tour Bob’s Sugar Bush, check out the farmers market and enjoy horse and wagon rides throughout the day Saturday after enjoying a pancake breakfast at the McCreary Drop-In Centre in the morning.

For a full schedule of the events happening at the festival head to our community calendar event page here.

Details: Contributed by Eric Fawx; Published: Apr 1, 2022 - 6:00 am

The Manitoba Government has announced they're giving the Manitoba 4-H Council $900,000 in funding over the next three years. Executive Director Shannon Carvey talked about where the funding will go.

Our funding that we receive from the province goes towards our general funding for our 4-H members. We do send a portion of those funds to the grassroots level of our program, so our area councils recieve some funding and they use that to put on events in their area that service the clubs.

4-H is an international youth and volunteer organization that was founded right here in Manitoba in 1913. 4-H provides kids with the resources and activities to learn about a topic of their choice while building self-confidence, communication, and leadership skills. You can find out more about 4-H and its programs here.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 31, 2022 - 12:21 pm

The Dauphin Multi-Purpose Senior Centre announced this morning that it will be changing its name to the Dauphin Active Living Centre. Kim Armstrong, the Centre's administrator, and program coordinator made the announcement this morning on the Al Morning Show.

We feel that Dauphin Active Living Centre is a better description of our mandate, that we want seniors to be living active lives.

The name change will officially take effect tomorrow, and there will be another change coming with it as well.

We have expanded our meal program to five days a week with deliveries and pick-ups on Mondays and Thursdays now, which is a big deal for us, we're serving our community as best we can.

Get all the information you need about the Dauphin Active Living Centre here.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 31, 2022 - 8:42 am

Construction is underway on a new 17,300 square foot building on Main Street South in Dauphin. The building is going up where the Highland Motel used to be, right beside the Co-op gas bar.

The anchor tenant of the new building will be a 9100 square foot Dollar Tree, with another six units available for rent. According to listing agent Rennie Zegelski, the building is expected to be ready in August, with businesses opening in the fall.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 31, 2022 - 6:00 am

The Dauphin and District Community Foundation has announced their fall grantees:

Dauphin & District Allied Arts Centre - $8,473.25 for tables
Dauphin Friendship Centre $14,000 for kitchen upgrades
Henderson School Playground Committee $7,500 for playground expansion
Sub Committee of Dauphin Recreation Services $20,000 for Parkland’s 4 Season Toboggan Run.
Tinker Bell Nursery School $2,500 for Covid Recovery (cleaning and equipment)
Ukrainian Folk Arts Centre & Museum $2,500 for Village Museum School Teacherage

The foundation is now shifting its focus to its Spring Donations Bring Fall Grants campaign starting tomorrow. According to DDCF Executive Director Kit Daley, an anonymous donor has agreed to match $10,000 in donations to the foundation.

"We have a sign in the lobby at city hall starting tomorrow which will track our progress on twin thermometers so that we can make note of the donations we've received and the matching fund, with the goal of increasing our community fund by $20,000."

Find out more about the Dauphin and District Community Foundation here.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 31, 2022 - 6:00 am

Yesterday two Dauphin residents who were arrested in October of 2020 were back in court.

39-year-old Tomson Flatfoot and 39-year-old Lana Flatfoot were facing charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of property obtained by crime and numerous firearms offences following a drug and firearms bust at a residence in Dauphin.

In court yesterday Tomson Flatfoot was remanded into custody until his next court date on April 12th while Lana Flatfoot had her charges from this case stayed.

The case was in relation to an event on October 29^th,2020, when Dauphin RCMP officers executed a search warrant at a residence on Triangle Road in Dauphin and seized numerous firearms, cocaine, cash, and drug paraphernalia. (Pictured below)

Dauphin Drugs And Guns

Details: Contributed by Eric Fawx; Published: Mar 30, 2022 - 1:21 pm

The Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association's Green Gold program has been around since 1995. They work with producers all over the province to determine the best time to harvest alfalfa hay.

MFGI Board Chair Lawrence Knockaert is a producer in Bruxelles who has been part of the program for 25 years, and he says the program needs producers from all over the province.

"It gets your hay cut at the right time with whatever protein you want to pick, so that way you dont need to suppliment your protein because you're taking it off at its peak value which is very beneficial for farmers."

You can sign up to be a part of the program or get information from the program here.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 30, 2022 - 12:39 pm

The Dauphin Multi-Purpose Senior Centre held a perogy dinner last Thursday, to raise money for the Parkland Ukrainian Family Fund.

It came together in very short order so we were extremely pleased with both the attendance and the generosity of our community.

According to Kim Armstrong from the Senior Centre, they raised $4565, and the Senior Centre will be giving an additional $435 for a total of $5000.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 30, 2022 - 12:02 pm

The Manitoba Government announced this morning the steps they are taking to help relieve the surgical and diagnostic backlog from the delays due to the pandemic.

Among the announcements made by Health Minister Audrey Gordon today were:

Improvements to expand the Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg which will increase surgery capacity by up to 1,000 more surgeries per year.
An investment of $400,000 to increase the number of assessments completed by the Spine Assessment Clinic at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre
The purchase and installation of a new mobile CT Unit and two new mobile MRI units in Winnipeg that'll add more than 11,600 CT scans and 7,200 MRIs annually
The expansion of services at Misericordia’s cataract program

Minister Gordon also announced that the pilot project for Spine surgeries in North Dakota is underway and so far nine Manitobans have received their surgery with many additional scheduled in the coming weeks.

These improvements and expansions will help with over 1,000 extra surgeries in the province but are not expected to be in place until the end of the year.

For more on the announcement, you can find the full release on the Governments website here.

Details: Contributed by Eric Fawx; Published: Mar 30, 2022 - 10:32 am

UPDATE: The road closure that was in effect has been cleared and all traffic can resume as usual.

The City of Dauphin is working to repair a water main break on 1st Avenue NE and 3rd Street NE. The Intersection is closed to all traffic until the break is repaired. Traffic in the area will need to detour.

According to the city, water main breaks take around 6 hours to repair on average.

Details: Contributed by Sam Brownell; Published: Mar 30, 2022 - 9:40 am

Dauphin MLA Brad Michaleski announced yesterday that five local organizations are receiving funds from the Manitoba Arts Council (MAC) and through the Manitoba Arts and Culture Sustainability Fund from the provincial government.

The funding will total $241,600 and the recipients of this year's funding in Dauphin are:

Dauphin’s Countryfest
Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival
Fort Dauphin Museum
Dauphin Rail Museum
Zirka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

The grants were a part of the winter intake for the Arts and Culture Sustainability Fund which are individual grants that provide support to organizations that operate all across the province to enhance the arts and culture sector in their communities.

The government of Manitoba recognizes that these past few years have been an extreme challenge for many of these groups due to the COVID-19 pandemic and these grants are part of the government’s commitment to growing our way out of the pandemic and helping organizations that need a boost as we transition back to a more normal Manitoba.