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Seven people were arrested after several drugs and weapons were seized in Brandon and the R.M. of Riverdale.
The RCMP Manitoba Organized Crime Unit (MCOU) conducted seven search warrants over seven months, involved with a drug trafficking network responsible for supplying meth, cocaine, and fentanyl to Brandon and Western Manitoba.
On Tuesday, April 20th RCMP seized $17,000, 14 firearms, cocaine, meth, and fentanyl at various locations in Brandon and the Riverdale Municipality.
RCMP seized multiple weapons, cocaine, meth, fentanyl, and cash at 7 different locations in Brandon and the Riverdale Municipality
A Honda Goldwing motorcycle stolen from British Columbia was also recovered.
Seven people were arrested and are facing multiple drug and firearm-related offenses. Five others have warrants out for their arrest.
The investigation is ongoing.
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As COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue to ramp up in the province, appointments at local pharmacies are filling up quickly.
The province recently expanded the eligibility criteria for who can receive a dose of the AstraZeneca jab, to all Manitobans aged 40 and older and First Nations people aged 30 and older.
Ken’s No Frills in Dauphin told CKDM they continue to book vaccine appointments online.
Barret Prosychyn says appointments at the Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy are fully booked, and they are calling people off a wait-list.
“Anyone can sign up for that and when your age group qualifies and we have the vaccine in our store, we will call you in. The waitlist is only for our store. If in the meantime you can get one at a supersite or a pop-up clinic, or at another pharmacy, or a clinic, take the first one that’s available to you.”
Prosychyn adds that anyone can sign up to be on the wait-list. To do so, click here, or call them at (204) 638-4602.
Sherri Gardner with Super Thrifty Pharmacy in Dauphin has confirmed they’re in the same boat and are calling people off their waiting list, as all appointments are booked. She says people can sign up for their vaccine cancellation list and get more information by calling the pharmacy at (204) 638-3702.
At this time, there’s no word on when any of the pharmacies will receive more vaccine shipments.
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Dauphin Rec Services will soon be planting a variety of trees outside of City Hall, as a part of their tree planting initiative.
In light of Earth Day on Thursday, Mayor Al Dowhan donated a generous $3,000 towards tree planting in the city.
When speaking with Mayor Dowhan, he said he feels it’s his way of giving back to the community.
“We’re doing landscaping of the City Hall grounds. We had a landscape architect give us a plan and we’re going forward with it this year.”
Three types of trees will be planted including Delta Hackberry, Trembling Aspen, and Starlight Flowering Crabapple.
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The Dauphin and District Chamber of Commerce celebrated their 118th anniversary today.
Stephen Chychota, Executive Director with the Chamber of Commerce says although this year's celebration looked a little different, they were still able to hand out their outstanding member awards.
“Everything kind of lined up really nice today where we’ve had those plaques sitting around for a little bit. Usually what happens on a normal year is we have a nice big awards lunch in March, but COVID hit, so we couldn’t end up doing that this year. We’re dropping a few of them off today and tying them in with the gift card program that we’ve been putting on for the last few months.”
Chychota adds that over the last year the pandemic has had a big impact on the way they operate, but that they look forward to continuing their support for local businesses in the Parkland.
The Dauphin Chamber was federally registered back in 1903.
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The Manitoba government is directing $20 million towards provincial parks through their new Provincial Parks Endowment Fund.
A worker with Manitoba Conservation and climate says that it’s too early to tell how much each individual park will be getting, but that it’s much needed and very exciting.
Some of the projects that this fund will support include:
• campground enhancements
• development and maintenance of trails and boardwalks
• interpretive infrastructure to support programming
• improvements to amphitheatres, shelters, playground equipment, docks and launches
• park road maintenance
• habitat restoration and enhancement
• historical assets and cultural sites
• infrastructure to support programming
• machinery and operational equipment
• municipal servicing infrastructure
The fund, which is managed by the Winnipeg Foundation, is expected to generate around $1 million for parks annually.
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The city of Dauphin has announced that recycling pick-up in parts of the day 3 area has been delayed.
If your recycling bin has not been picked up, Ottenbreit Sanitization services ask that you leave your bin out for collection.
Anyone with questions can contact Ottenbreit Sanitization Services at 1-204-783-6995.
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Today marks the 51st celebration of Earth day – a day where millions of people around the world reflect on our relationship with the planet.
Earthday.org says this year’s theme is ‘Restore Our Earth’, focusing on new technologies that can help restore the world’s ecosystems.
Virginia Cail, Co-chair of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Dauphin Chapter shares some of the things you can do to celebrate this year.
“We can use less energy ourselves, put the temperature down in our house, share transportation when you can, some of those practical things. Whatever things nurture you, whatever ways you feel cared for, do that for the earth because we’re all part of the same organism.”
This year, residents in Roblin and Alonsa are encouraged to celebrate through community clean-ups on Saturday, April 24th. More information can be found here.
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Dry conditions have some Manitoba producers concerned that the province might be in for another 2019 season — when low yields sent hay prices soaring.
Pam Iwanchysko, livestock specialist with Agriculture Manitoba says that in 2019, because of the dryer conditions over the last several years, people used up the reserves that they had in previous years.
“We were in somewhat of a crisis in terms of low supplies of feed for winter feeding, so guys were scrambling to find hay across the province and across Canada.”
Pam says that this year the Parkland is one of the more lucky areas in the province when it comes to moisture.
“We have had around 60 per cent of normal precipitation to date…whereas southwest and central areas of Manitoba are under 30 per cent of normal precipitation, so certainly we are in a better situation than they are.” She adds, “at the moment I would suggest we probably have adequate moisture to get things going.”
Although the Parkland is doing better than other parts of the province, Pam suggests we will see ramifications based on other areas of the province and western Canada.
“What we’ve seen in the past is where producers will draw upon others who have had adequate to normal precipitation and good yields. It certainly is a vicious cycle and the supply and demand are what drives the prices.”
Information and tips regarding good management practices can be found here.
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Sunrise Credit Union held their Annual General Meeting last night, where they discussed their progress over the last year.
CEO of Sunrise Credit Union, Tim Klassen says their merge with Minnedosa helped increase their growth, and that their total assets for the year were just over 1.6 billion.
Klassen adds that last year, the Credit Union was proud to provide the Assiniboine Community College with their largest donation in history.
“We were very proud to be able to give $1 million to the Assiniboine Community College (ACC) and their innovation centre, and the work that’ll do for Agriculture and sustainability. It was the largest donation in history of the ACC and certainly for Sunrise Credit Union. We’re excited about the impact that will have in rural Manitoba and the communities that we live in.”
In the future, Sunrise Credit Union plans to expand online and digital banking options for members.
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Fusion Credit Union held their Annual General meeting last night.
It was announced that last year, the Credit Union provided over $250,000 in sponsorships, donations, and scholarships to 18 communities, and was able to circulate $2.2 million back to its members through patronage cash payouts as well as other dividends.
CEO of Fusion Credit Union, Darwin Johns says members can expect to see a portion of patronage allocations in their accounts this week.
“One thing we did share last night was the board declaring $550,000 in patronage allocations to our members, so that will be distributed to your surplus share accounts this week. The board also approved payout surplus shares in cash to our members aged 65 and older, to members holding over $15,000 in their surplus shares and members under the age of 19.”
Going forward, Johns says Fusion will be focussing on the rollout of enhanced digital services for their members.
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Dauphin RCMP is seeking information after a suspicious fire in Gilbert Plains.
Yesterday, shortly after 1 a.m. Dauphin RCMP received a report of a structure fire at an abandoned building on Main Street in Gilbert Plains.
After the fire was extinguished, officers were advised that the fire may have been an act of arson.
No injuries were reported.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dauphin RCMP at 204-622-5050 or call crime stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
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