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The province is offering Dauphin financial and technical support for updates to two lift stations and to install UV disinfection at the water treatment plant.
The Manitoba Water Stewardship Board will cost share 50 per cent with the city for these projects.
“A couple of weeks now Manitoba Water Stewardship Board gave me a call and said ‘we have some money for you for the lift station upgrades and for the UV disinfection.’ So that is how it came about,” said City Manager Sharla Griffiths.
The cost for both lift stations is around 800 thousand dollars and the cost to install UV disinfection is about 1.2 million.
“They have some money in the budget. They don’t have the large amount of money that we need for a 13 million dollar project to cost share that.”
The city's lagoon upgrades are expected to cost 13 million dollars.
“It is very close to reaching the capacity for our population and the use as we have it. We do have special permission from the province to continue operating as we have been, noting at the first available opportunity we will upgrade it to meet our licencing requirements.”
Griffiths continues, “We did stress that the lagoon is our number one priority. However, if they are offering money it’s important that we take it.”
City council passed a resolution to ask for assistance with these projects at the Monday meeting. This will initiate the process to get the funding and technical support in place. Council will then consider the projects during the 2019 budget deliberations.
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Mud Run 2019 is happening on Saturday, August 10th.
Kevin Steinbachs, Course Director, says you can get Early Bird Tickets until Monday, April 1st.
Steinbachs says there’s a benefit to getting an Early Bird Ticket.
“You secure a spot, it’s cheaper, you’ll get an event t-shirt, and it’ll motivate you to get in shape a little bit.”
All the money raised goes to the Rotary Club’s Active Living Fund.
Usually, the Mud Run is 10 kilometres, but this year they’ve added a 5-kilometre option, for those intimidated by the 10k Run.
The event happens at the Selo Ukraina Site.
If you’d like to be an Early Bird click here.
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Early in the morning on Sunday, March 24, The Pas and Opaskwayak RCMP executed a search warrant at a 3rd Street E residence in The Pas.
The RCMP seized 9 grams of meth, currency, brass knuckles, knives, a baseball bat, cell phones, and various drug paraphernalia.
Savannah Cowley and Roger Dram are the two individuals charged.
Cowley, 34, of Opaskwayak First Nation, is charged with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking and Possession of Property Obtained by Crime, and Dram, 48, of Winnipeg, is charged with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking, Possession of Property Obtained by Crime, Unauthorized Possession of a Prohibited Weapon, and Failing to Comply with Conditions x 2.
The RCMP are continuing their investigation.
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The meeting is for parents of children with special needs or disabilities that are struggling to find support in the Parkland area.
The Parkland Exceptional Children Advocacy and Family Support Group invited Wab Kinew.
The meeting will be from 7-9 at the DRCSS, starting at the main entrance before moving to the room the meeting will take place in.
With the new budget and other changes, parents of kids with special needs are concerned.
They want more respite care to help with looking after children, better programming in school, and there is a need for a variety of therapists such as pediatricians, physicians, and OT specialists.
Jennifer Carniel wants to stress this isn’t an open forum with Wab Kinew.
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The first scheduled pick-up of yard waste will start on Monday, April 15th.
If you haven’t’ yet signed up for a green bin you can click here.
To find out when your pick-up day is you can click here
For more information or to sign up for a green bin contact City Hall at (204) 622-3200.
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Another Canadian canola exporter has had its licence revoked by China.
This time Saskatchewan’s Viterra Inc. is no longer able to ship the crop.
Effective immediately, Viterra is the second Canadian company to be hit with a formal ban.
Last year, about 40 per cent of canola seed exports went to China, worth around $2.7 billion.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Winnipeg that his government is taking seriously the recent action by China to block canola imports from Canada.
Trudeau says they're looking at sending a high-level delegation to China to see if they can work out the issues.
He said Canada's canola is top quality and the oversight, inspection and science behind it is world class.
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Unlike the situation at the Parkland Rec Complex, the cause of a recent leak discovered at the CN Station in Dauphin was mechanical.
"On the third floor there's a mechanical room that contains three air-handling units and they have heating elements in it that use hot water from the boiler. One of those heating elements sprung a leak and was leaking probably for a day or two" explained Bill Brenner, Director of Public Works and Operations for the City of Dauphin.
Brenner also says the leak ran from the third floor all the way to the basement, but the majority of the repair will involve removing drywall and ceiling tile.
The leak will not affect hours of operation.
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Manitoba is boosting the maximum amount eligible for the Young Farmer Rebate program to $200,000 from $150,000.
The program provides an annual rebate of up to two per cent on the principal of a loan from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation.
Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler says one of the government's priorities is to increase the number of young people in the agriculture industry.
“Increasing the young farmer rebate supports our focus on young producers by reducing the cost of borrowing while they grow their operations.”
The program provides an annual rebate of up to two per cent on the principal of a loan from MASC for up to five years.
As a result of the expansion, the lifetime maximum rebate will also increase, to $20,000 from $15,000.
“Agriculture is the backbone of Manitoba’s rural economy, and young farmers are the future of the industry’s growth,” said Jared Munro, president and CEO, MASC. “This enhancement to the Young Farmer Rebate program is expected to provide an additional $500,000 in interest reductions next fiscal year.”
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The snow on top of the Parkland Rec Complex has been leaking through the roof and causing some damage.
Operations Manager Wes Carneige says the leak started on the 20th and it came down in six or seven different spots from the roof to the main floor.
“It actually follows the handicap ramp at the top leading into the CUP. That area and down right by our pool office.”
They have reached out to their insurance company and are now in the process of ripping the damage out.
They will be putting out a tender to get everything repaired as soon as possible.
“When they come to do tear out of all the drywall and everything we’re going to be redirecting all the walking traffic for all the walkers and everything like that. if someone needs the wheelchair ramp, we will just instruct the workers that they have to be cautious and if someone is coming up the wheelchair ramp that they have to stop all work while they pass.”
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Canadian canola exporters are trying to sell their supply to other markets after Chinese companies stopped buying last week.
Brian Innes, with the Canola Council of Canada, says China was a big chunk of the market and it’s hard to fill a hole that size.
“That would be a train that would go all the way from Calgary to Vancouver filled with canola seed. So that’s a lot of canola seed to send somewhere else.”
The immediate problem for canola farmers is the drop in price for the commodity.
“That directly hits producers who have canola to sell," said Innes. "But of course, producers are also looking to go into their fields in just a few short weeks and plant the 2019 crop. so it’s creating a lot of uncertainty with the whole industry for a market that is really significant for the Canadian industry.”
The council says canola exporters are now looking at other markets, including Japan, Mexico, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Europe.
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With spring here the condition of ice on rivers and lakes across Manitoba is now dangerous.
The province has issued an advisory warning the public of potentially hazardous ice conditions.
While the ice may appear normal, it may be very thin and no longer support people and heavy objects such as snowmobiles and vehicles.
The quality of river ice within communities is also uncertain, so people are advised to stay off rivers and retention ponds.
Manitoba Sustainable Development advises ice fishing shelters must be removed by March 31 in the rest of the southern division and by April 15 in the northwest, north central and northeast divisions, or when requested to do so by a conservation officer due to unsafe ice conditions.
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