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The City of Dauphin is advising of a road closure on Main Street on Wednesday, October 21st.
Beginning at 6:00 a.m., a section of Main Street between 10th Avenue SW/SE and 11th Avenue SW/SE will be closed while crews repair a water main leak.
The road is expected to open later in the afternoon.
For any questions you can call the City Shop at 204 622 3202.
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RCMP have made an arrest after two financial institutions were robbed in Dauphin Tuesday morning.
On October 20th at around 10:00 a.m. officers were responding to a bank robbery on Main Street North in Dauphin, when they were made aware of a second robbery at a bank on the same street.
RCMP say a male suspect had entered both of the businesses and demanded cash before fleeing in a grey truck.
At about 10:30 a.m., RCMP located the suspect vehicle in a back alley between Main Street N and 1st Street NW.
The suspect was found inside the vehicle along with a large sum of money.
The 25-year-old man from Duck Bay has been arrested and is facing robbery charges.
RCMP continue to investigate.
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Public Health officials have identified 110 new cases of COVID-19 today.
A previously identified case has been removed, making today’s net increase 109. There is a total of 3,491 cases province-wide.
Today’s data shows:
- Two cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 11 cases in the Northern health region;
- Two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- Seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 88 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The following Parkland health districts have active cases: Dauphin (2), Asessippi (3), Little Saskatchewan (1), and Whitemud (1). Brandon has 10 active cases.
In the Interlake region, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 4 active cases.
Manitoba now has 1,746 active cases and 1,703 recovered. There are 32 people in hospital with 6 in intensive care. The number of deaths remains at 42.
To learn more about COVID-19 in Manitoba, click here.
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Rotary Radio Week continued with Clayton Swanton joining Al in the studio this morning.
This morning’s topic was how Rotary helped with the Northgate Trails and Swanton says the Rotary Club stepped up big time.
“It all started when we were awarded the Manitoba Summer Games for 2020 and needed to create a mountain bike facility. Rotary stepped up and donated 50 thousand dollars right at the outset to the Manitoba Games Committee and that allowed us to get a plan for what Northgate would be. Then, once we had the plan, Rotary again came to the table with a bunch of other partners and Rotary’s contribution in addition to the 50 thousand to the games, was 150 thousand dollars towards Northgate.”
Swanton says Northgate features 26 kilometres of trail.
He adds that those trails definitely saw an increase in usage because of COVID.
“Hearing people’s anecdotally stories that they’re out here because they haven’t been able to go to Fernie to ride, or to Revelstoke to ride this summer and Northgate saved their summer cause they are used to going out and riding in other areas and they were able to come travel to Dauphin to ride, and then locals too, locals had this new area to go and explore and I think they took full advantage of that.”
The Northgate Trails are located just north of Riding Mountain National Park, on the road to Dauphin’s water treatment plant.
Coming up tomorrow on Rotary Radio Week is Jean-Louis Guillas. If you missed Kathy Bellemare yesterday, click here for more details.
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Prairie Mountain Health is holding its virtual AGM on Wednesday, October 21st.
Residents are encouraged to participate and ask questions in the zoom meeting.
The meeting will take place from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Participants must pre-register before the meeting.
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A new appointment-based COVID-19 testing system, launching first in Winnipeg, may soon be coming to other communities in Manitoba.
The appointment-based system will give Manitobans an option to call or go online to make appointments to get a COVID-19 test.
The system is being rolled out in Winnipeg first to address the high demand for testing in the city.
Health Minister Cameron Friesen also noted that starting later this week, Manitobans will be able to access positive COVID-19 test results in Shared Health’s online self-serve portal, which has previously only provided negative COVID-19 test results.
No referral or appointment is needed at Prairie Mountain Health testing sites.
The walk-in testing site in Dauphin is located at 301 Main Street North, open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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A fire last week in Ethelbert is being investigated by RCMP as suspicious in nature.
On Thursday, October 15 around 11:15 p.m., police were notified of a fire at a building in Ethelbert being used for storage.
Several semi-trailers parked near the building were also damaged in the blaze.
RCMP are investigating and are asking that anyone with information please call 204-622-5020.
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Public health officials have announced 80 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the provincial total to 3,382.
Today’s data shows:
- four cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- five cases in the Northern health region;
- six cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- 14 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 51 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are still two active cases in Dauphin, 1 in Little Saskatchewan, 1 in Whitemud, and 3 cases in the Asessippi health district, 2 of those being new today.
Along with the new cases, two more deaths due to the virus have been announced, bringing the total to 42.
The new deaths are a female in her 80s and a male in his 70s both from Winnipeg and linked to the Heritage Lodge outbreak.
Right now, there are 1,743 active cases, 28 people in hospital and six in intensive care. 1,597 recoveries have been recorded.
There aren’t any new exposures to the virus in PMH.
On the topic of Halloween celebrations, Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday "Halloween is going to be different this year no matter what," and that Manitobans can go online to see the latest public health recommendations.
"I really encourage people to start thinking about what their Halloween is going to look like, how they can do that with reducing their contacts from outside their household — and to really make this a safe Halloween in all ways, including practicing the fundamentals," said Roussin.
With the growing number of cases in the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, the province is introducing additional restrictions under the Restricted (orange) level of the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System. Click here to learn more about the new restrictions that are now in effect.
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Rotary Radio Week got started with Kathy Bellemare joining Alex DeVries in the studio this morning.
They talked about the Rotary Club’s foreign exchange student program.
Bellemare says Rotary is an international organization and there’s a system to exchange students between countries.
“So the process would be, we would recruit a student from the high school here and they would indicate which countries they’d like to go to, they’d give two or three choices. Then, there’s an exchange division within Rotary International and they help make those matches. Then the student gets the opportunity to go to the country for 10 months and live with various Rotary families while they’re over there. When we send a student out, then we get a student into our community as well, and they get to live with various Rotary families during that year.”
Bellemare says there is a cost to the family to send their child abroad, but Rotary does a lot of support for the program. Rotary provides the student with an allowance because there are a lot of activities that happen to show off the country.
Bellemare says this kind of program works best for adventurous students.
“I mean, it’s a big deal to move away from home during your high school year when you’re just figuring things out and then go live someplace else. They actually don’t recommend that parents go visit their child during the Rotary exchange year, just to let them settle in and really enjoy what the community has to offer.”
If you want to get into the program, Bellemare says to contact any of the 37 Rotarians and they’ll get you the information you need. Rotary also goes into the high school to recruit students.
Coming up tomorrow morning on Rotary Radio Week is Clayton Swanton.
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The restrictions on non-essential travel at the Canada-US border have been extended once again.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair confirmed the restrictions have been extended to November 21st.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the restrictions on non-essential travel at the border won’t be lifted until there’s clear evidence of the pandemic situation improving in the United States.
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This week is Small Business Week, which revolves around building supports and showing off small businesses.
Stephen Chychota says this year’s theme is ‘Forging The Way Forward’.
“I kind of take it that, we’ve went through this pandemic, we’re still in it, and what can we do to forge our way forward and come out the other side a little bit better, little bit stronger, little bit smarter. With the supports that businesses have been getting from other organizations and from government, just trying to make sure that there’s jobs for people to go to, to make sure that there’s these businesses are out there and able to do their thing and survive and get through this pandemic. It’s again, the Small Business Week reflecting on what we’ve been through for the past few months and making sure we can go forward through all this.”
The Chamber has events planned all week, some in partnership with The Hub and Take The Leap.
Chychota says there are numerous ways to support small businesses.
“It can be as simple as making some posts on their social media pages and giving them a shout out, you can share some of their content and that message goes a long way for some of these small businesses. You can go actually to the business and ask them ‘what can I do?’ And there’s actually just going to the business, either if they have an online presence, buying something through their market there or going to the business itself and picking up some of their products or getting some of their service.”
Chychota adds that it’s very important to have small businesses.
“They are a huge part of our economic system out here. We know that in our region specifically, there’s a lot of ag, but there’s a tremendous amount of small and medium sized businesses out here. So, without them we’re lacking and we need those businesses out here to make sure that we’ve got the products we need.”
The Chamber is also doing a recognition piece this week for the hardest working students.
Chychota says if any businesses had students working for them over the summer, to nominate them to the Chamber to share the content for everyone else to know how hard they were working.
Then at the end of the week, Chychota will be on the Al Morning Show to pick two winners that’ll get some chamber bucks.
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