Rivers Police Rescue Underground Puppies

Police officers in Rivers, located north of Brandon, rescued five puppies from an underground tunnel the dogs' mother had dug on Monday.

Police say they were alerted about the pups yesterday and later found one that had escaped the tunnel and was dehydrated.

They found the other four animals when they started digging.

The dogs are being cared for at the Brandon Humane Society and will eventually be put up for adoption.

You can check out some cute photos by going to the Rivers Police Service Facebook page.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 29, 2018 - 1:43 pm

Last night, the Dauphin and District Allied Arts Council held their Annual General Meeting.

Towards the end of the meeting, some power positions on the board of directors got switched around. Michelle Nyquist stepped down as President, moving into the Past President role. Adriene Luke, who was the Past President moved into the Vice President position. Yvonne Lillie, who was the vice president, was promoted to the president of the board of directors for the 2018-19 year.

The arts council had a very successful 2017-18 year compared to the 2016-17 year, making much more money this past year. Yvonne Lillie has plans to make more money this next year.

“We also have a new project being developed by one of our members. It’s providing things that people can purchase things that have art from our local people put onto these things. There are phone cases, shirts, leggings, notebooks, cards and all these things. That’s going to be new.”

Terra Matthews stayed on as secretary and Mark Tiefenbach will continue as Treasurer.

Seven out of the nine General Board Members from 2017-18 are staying for 2018-19.

Details: Contributed by Isaac Wihak; Published: Aug 29, 2018 - 1:19 pm

The City of Dauphin has applied for only one project in the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.

Under the Green Infrastructure Grant, the city has submitted their expression of interest to upgrade the city’s lagoons.

City hall considers Dauphin’s lagoon upgrades the priority at this time and that’s why it was the sole project listed.

Sharla Griffiths, the Assistant City Manager, says there needs to be more capacity which means the lagoon needs to increase in size. An engineering report shows that the project will cost about $13 million.

They sent it in before the August 10th deadline.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 29, 2018 - 11:08 am

The hail storms from August 3^rd and 4^th was very damaging. An estimated 1600 vehicles have had claims made on them.

Brian Smiley, an MPI media relations coordinator, gave a more detailed analysis of the damages done.

“More than 300 claims were opened in the Dauphin area alone, nearly 300 in Gilbert Plains.”

MPI has looked at about 60 percent of the vehicles with claims from the hail storm. Since MPI is still looking at the vehicles damaged during the storm, no total damage cost has been released.

If anyone still needs to make a claim they can call the MPI Contact Centre at (204) 985-7000.

Details: Contributed by Isaac Wihak; Published: Aug 29, 2018 - 6:18 am

Next week groups around Dauphin have the opportunity to get new members or participants.

Dauphin Rec’s Health and Leisure Mart is taking place next Wednesday and Thursday.

It’s a one-stop shop for families to find extracurricular activities and allows them to wander through the curling rink and see that groups interest them.

Tamara Kolida the Programs & Promotions Coordinator for the rec centre encourages groups around town to register for a table.

“It just brings awareness to your group and they use it too as a signup night. So instead of organizing their own signup nights, it’s kind of 30 different groups doing their sign-ups that day. So it’s easy on families as well because they just get to go there, it’s a one-stop shop. You can register your entire family for all of their activities in just one visit. Instead of just contacting five or six different groups. Everyone is there that night to kinda make everyone’s lives little easier.”

Kolida shares what kinds of groups have already signed up for the event.

“So we have a variety of groups. Like up to 30, I think. Kind of varying from your typical Dauphin Minor Hockey, Skate Dauphin, to dance groups, Ukrainian dance groups, and then more of the arts, so like the Watson Art Centre, and the library.” She continues, “you can walk through, get some information on what they can offer you.”

You still have time to register your group for the Health and Leisure Mart next week. Give Tamara a call at 204-622-3157 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request a table.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 29, 2018 - 5:00 am

The City of Dauphin has changed some administration names.

During Monday's city council meeting the council approved the change from Chief Administrative Officer to City Manager.

With the change that means Deputy City Manager is also in effect.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 28, 2018 - 5:00 am

The City of Dauphin has to figure out how to pay for already budgeted road projects after the province cut back on an important program.

The province is reducing the Manitoba Road Improvement Program which the city had expected to receive $225,000. In total Dauphin is getting $107,840 through the program for the Johnson Street Reconstruction project.

It was announced late in the construction season, on August 15th, that the province would be giving less than expected. The city had become accustomed to repairing major road projects with this fund for the past several years. There are also rumours that the MRIP grant will be eliminated altogether next year, although no formal announcement has been made yet. Dauphin had grown used to completing nearly one million dollars worth of infrastructure work annually, but without the MRIP grand, keeping the same level of spending in years to come is unsustainable.

They are now looking at using the surplus Gas Tax reserve to offset lost funds for the 2018 road projects. Some of the other projects included the work on Jackson Street.

Dauphin isn’t the only community in Manitoba that is dealing with cuts as many other communities are dealing with the same problem.

The Association of Manitoba Municipalities is planning to lobby the provincial government to keep the funding at the previous allocation and keep it separate from the federal Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 28, 2018 - 10:08 am

CN is repairing the railway crossing at Main Street in Dauphin tomorrow.

Vehicle and pedestrian access is closed from 7 in the morning until 7 in the evening.

They are planning to repair the tracks and the wood. They also need to cut out and re-asphalt the area.

Work needs to be done by 7 in the evening to comply with train schedules.

There may be delays in re-opening the street. The last time CN did repair work in Dauphin they worked until around 7:30.

Everyone who has to get to the other side will need to make a detour.

Details: Contributed by Josh Sigurdson; Published: Aug 28, 2018 - 5:00 am

School starts up next week and registration for the DRCSS is today and tomorrow.

Grade 12 students register this morning and grade 9 students register this afternoon.

Tomorrow grade 10 students are registering in the morning with the grade 11’s registering in the afternoon.

You can register at the DRCSS main office.

Donna Davidson, Superintendent for the Mountain View School Board explains the costs that would be included during registration.

“It doesn’t really cost anything to register, it’s just that some schools charge a student fee or a student council fee or a fee for agendas.”

The DRCSS fees include $15 for the Student Council, $40 for a Grad Fee, and $45 as the Yearbook Fee.

The times for registration today and tomorrow are as follows:

Aug.28 Grade 12 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Grade 9 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Aug.29 Grade 10 9:00 a.m. - 11:3 a.m.
Grade 11 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Details: Contributed by Isaac Wihak; Published: Aug 28, 2018 - 6:24 am

The Province of Manitoba is opening crown lands to producers and allowing cut hay and animals to graze.

The very dry conditions experienced in parts of the province are the reason for the government opening up the land.

The government says livestock must be removed when the naturally existing forage is exhausted or by October 31 and baled hay must be removed by November 15th.

2004 was the last time the Government of Manitoba opened up crow land for grazing.

Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler spoke with us about the conditions around the province and what farmers are doing.

“We have producers that are sitting pretty good with their hay that they need, with the amount that they need. So, some of them actually have some for sale. Also what we’ve been seeing is some of the corn crops, for example, that’s not going to yield well as a crop but it’ll yield well as silage. So we’re seeing some of the corn growers turn some of that already into making silage out of it.”

You can apply for permits to go onto crown land by contacting your closest Manitoba agriculture office or go to the government of Manitoba’s agriculture website.