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Manitoba Ag Days is back in 2023.
The event will take place from January 17 to 19 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon. As a part of the event, the 4th annual Innovation Showcase will be featured.
The event features 32 products and services that are looking to finish on top in seven different categories. The seven categories include Ag Technology, Agribusiness Services, Agricultural Equipment, Agronomics, Animal and Livestock, Farm Built Solutions and Farm Safety.
The Innovation Showcase Committee will visit with each entrant before determining the winner in each category. Winners will be announced Wednesday, January 18, at the show. Kristen Phillips is the General Manager of Manitoba AG Days and she says this is a special event.
"The Innovation Showcase is a part of Manitoba AG Days and it's always a fan favourite with so many great products and services being brought to the table," said Phillips. "The entire Manitoba AG Days in all brings forth 500 exhibitors and 70 speakers. There is a ton to do."
Tickets are now on sale for the event at an early bird price of just $15 per adult. You can get them at Manitoba AG Days.
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During the evening of Sunday, November 13th, Gypsumville RCMP received a report of a 70-year-old male who went out ice fishing earlier that day but had not come home. A local search group went out on snowmobiles to a spot where the 70-year-old would most likely be fishing and upon arrival, they noticed some footwear out on the ice.
The search party then approached by foot and was able to locate and recover the body of the 70-year-old male who was pronounced deceased. The full media release from the RCMP is below:
On November 13, 2022, at 9:15 pm, Gypsumville RCMP received a report of a 70-year-old male having gone out ice fishing near Fairford earlier in the morning and failed to return home.
His pickup truck was found near Cook Road, located west of Highway 6, in Fairford, where a local search party began their search.
The search party departed by snowmobile out onto the lake to an area believed most likely to be where the 70-year-old would fish from. After a short ride out, they observed footwear protruding out from the ice.
The search party approached closer by foot, due to the thinning ice, where they located and recovered the body of the 70-year-old male who was pronounced deceased. No criminality is suspected in his death.
Gypsumville RCMP continue to investigate.
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The third annual Cram The Cruiser - Pack The Pumper Food Bank Challenge is over. The challenge is a friendly competition between the Dauphin Fire Department and the RCMP Detachment in Dauphin to see who can collect more donations for the Dauphin and District Food Bank.
With a total of 1,854 pounds of food donations, the Dauphin Fire Department won this year's challenge. They brought along some cash donations as well. The Dauphin RCMP Detachment was able to bring in 682 pounds of food for a grand total of 2,536 pounds of food donated.
This is the first time in its three-year history that the fire department has won the challenge.
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A 20-year-old man has been charged with First Degree Murder after a 30-year-old female died over the weekend.
On Saturday, Virden RCMP received a report of a disturbance at a house located on the Sioux Valley Dakota First Nation. When officers arrived, a 30-year-old female was found with serious injuries and was later pronounced deceased on the scene.
As a result, Ernie Blacksmith was charged, remanded into custody and he will appear before a judge in Brandon on Monday.
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Canada's National Ukrainian Festival is set to return from August 4 to 6 just south of Dauphin and preparations are well underway.
CNUF President, Kayla Gillis joined Alex DeVries on Monday morning to share some exciting news as the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers from Edmonton will be the highlight show on Saturday evening.
"We are thrilled to be bringing this group in," said Gillis. "They haven't been here since our 45th show so we're very excited to have them. We're not doing the 'Sunday Extravaganza', we're moving it to Saturday."
Early bird tickets for next year's event go on sale this Wednesday and a weekend pass is just $110. Camping will also be on sale. Day passes will go on sale in the next couple of months.
CNUF will also be hosting 'Ukrainian Night' at the Dauphin Kings game on January 27. The annual event is always a sellout and Gillis says she's looking forward to this year being the same.
"Book that day, it's a Friday evening, we're going to have a really good time," ended Gillis.
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CKDM is encouraging people to Put Your Money Where Your House is and support locally-owned businesses.
Chuck Davidson, the President and CEO of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce says locally owned businesses have had to change the way they do things over the last few years.
"We're always encouraging local businesses, and some of the things that they've done over the course of the pandemic as well, has been to provide that opportunity to do online and they've been creative in terms of making sure that there that they are able to compete and then they are able to be competitive on some of those stages as well."
Davidson says that keeping money in the community is the best way to grow your local economy.
"What we’ve really identified over the last couple of years is the importance of the business community in local communities in terms of what they give back, the jobs that they create, the investments that they make in the business, you know what they do for a community, the sponsorship that they provide for some of the programs running community as well it is extremely important and I think it's also important is that to make sure that these businesses can not only survive but also thrive, they need the local community to show their support."
Martijn Van Luijn, the Economic Development Manager for the City of Dauphin, will join me on-air Saturday, November 26th at 8:30 a.m. to talk about the benefits of a thriving local business community.
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The Russell Take a Year Off Lotto was a big success again this year, and tickets were sold out by the 2 p.m. deadline.
Camilla Kuhler of Bandon was the big winner and will get $1000 dollars a week for a year. Gerry and Roberta Cook from Binscarth won the 50/50 put and will take home the $27,017 pot.
Other winners:
- Dale Zurbyk of Birtle won $5,000
- Ed and Shelly Robidoux of Binscarth won $3,000
- Jerry Standryk of Dauphin won $2,000
- Susan Broustal of Ashern won $1,000
- Kerry Holman of Brandon won $1,000
- Eileen Heap of Russell won $500
- Pam Alexander of Minnedosa won $500
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Parents with sick kids who have been grappling with a shortage of children's Tylenol and Advil for months will be getting some relief soon.
Health Canada officials say one million bottles of children's medication will be distributed to hospitals, pharmacies, and retailers after next week.
Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says a foreign supply has already started to arrive in the country.
It comes as hospitals have reported surges in the number of kids admitted to emergency and intensive care units.
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Carol Stewart is the new Director of the Parkland campus at Assiniboine Community College (ACC). She takes over the position from Gabe Mercier, who was Director for eleven years.
Stewart grew up in Dauphin and graduated from the DRCSS.
"I'm so pleased to be moving back here, it's an adventure for sure, [and] this time I'm bringing my family with me", commented Stewart.
After finishing high school in Dauphin, she went on to attend Brandon University. She then went on to graduate school at Western University in London, Ontario. Her time at Western led her to become an instructor for a few courses in geography and international development. Following that, she got a job with the Employment Sector Council in Ontario which is a network of organizations in southwest Ontario that deliver employment training and education programs.
"It really was a great sphere to be engaged with because it really demonstrates the importance of building a great work force, of supporting job-seekers and students, and engaging employers so that they know where they can find the talent that they need to grow their businesses as well", said Stewart.
When it comes to being the director of ACC's Parkland Campus, she mentioned she looks forward to getting to know everyone, as well as building on the existing relationships and partnerships that ACC has developed with the community.
"Our biggest aim is to always be responsive to what employers and the business community need in terms of talent so that we can help to prepare students and eventual graduates to enter great jobs in their fields."
Stewart also mentioned the school hopes to grow the already significant population of Indigenous students at ACC, citing the population and the community-based contract programs as one of ACC's strengths in the Parkland.
"We welcome Indigenous students, faculty and staff, and community organizations to partner with us in any number of ways, and my plan is to grow that more."
Stewart welcomes people reaching out and you can contact her by calling the ACC Parkland Campus main phone line at 204-622-2222.
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Pork producers across the province continue their fight with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea(PED), as the province longest running outbreak to date enters its 13th month.
"The number of new cases has declined significantly, so I think we've turned a corner, but we're still in the outbreak that started October 17th of 2021, so it's been over a year."
Manitoba Pork General Manager Cam Dahl says the organization has been working hard to find the right solution to dealing with PED. The Manitoba Pork Council has formed a working group with industry representatives says, Dahl.
"We brought together key stakeholders in the industry, including of course producers from all parts of the province, the commercial vets from across the province as well, our integrated producers in HyLife and Maple Leaf, as well as the Chief Veterinary Officer, to really look at what we can do to ensure we don't have an occurrence of this every two years because that's not sustainable."
The group shared some details of the plan with producers at the Manitoba Pork district meetings recently, and Dahl says they'll be giving more information once it's complete.
"At our district meetings, which we just held recently, we gave a little bit of an update, but we don't have a document yet. We're going to have a document that outlines what that plan is, and some of the best management practices, but we're not quite there yet."
Dahl says the Council looked into what other jurisdictions have done to handle outbreaks in the past.
To give your listeners a little bit of a summary, we've looked at how PED has been addressed across North America, to see if there are best practices, and from that, it is really clear that trying to just live with the disease as something that's endemic isn't the best solution, and that aggressively moving towards eradication is the right outcome. So that's the question, how do we do that, what are the best management practices to have that eradication policy in place."
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The provincial government's work on PTH 5A has been pushed back because of a delay in receiving information from the Engineering Service Provider, but the project is expected to move forward soon.
According to a provincial spokesperson, the project is expected to be advertised for tender within the next month, and once it's been awarded, they believe the work will start as soon as possible, with a proposed completion date of the fall of 2024.
The project was announced in May this year and will run 1.7 km from Whitmore Ave. to Triangle Road. Work will include:
- Surface reconstruction with the creation of a divided highway.
- All local accesses will connect to service roads and service roads connecting to PTH 5A at upgraded intersections to improve safety.
- Creating a signalized intersection at the local mall entrance.
- Adding service roads to both sides of the highway.
The City of Dauphin will also be funding a portion of the project, which will see an underground land drainage system built to handle future development in the area.
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