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With the new state-of-the-art greenhouse being built in Dauphin, a lot of people will be employed.
Once the facility is fully operational, over 50 people could be working for Vermillion Growers.
Lucky Deschauer talks about who the company has already begun hiring within the community:
“We’ve started hiring people currently. Most of the people now are technical people, as well as growers and scouts that are going to be going through training. So, they’ll be trained over the next year, year and a half, and once we are up and running with the full 30 acres, we’ll be at about 50 and 60 full-time people, and anywhere between 70 and 80 part-time people.”
Initially, Vermillion Growers is planning to hire labourers for their new facility, to be built in the north end of Dauphin.
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The threat of spring flooding in lakes around the Parkland is low.
Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler says the risk of major flooding is currently low for all lakes including Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipegosis and Dauphin Lake.
The provincial government released their report and shows the combination of drier soil conditions in the fall and the below average winter precipitation reduces the risk.
The use of flood management infrastructure may be limited this spring, with the Shellmouth Dam continuing operations to reach summer levels after the spring run-off.
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The South Parkland Healthy Child Coalition is hosting The Good, The Bad and The Munsch!
The event will be a series of plays done by the Prairie Theatre Exchange, based on Robert Munsch’s children’s books.
Cathy Cyr, member of the South Parkland Healthy Child Coalition, explains how the event has become a yearly event for the community:
“We’ve been doing this for a number of years, that we host Manitoba Theatre Centre to come here. We’ve always made it free, but some years it’s been more difficult to get [people] out, but we’ve probably been doing the Munsch event for 5 years now.”
The event will be in Dauphin at the 8th Avenue Hall, on Sunday at 2:00 in the afternoon, and is free to attend.
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Rural rate payers around Grandview have concerns about their taxes going to pay for urban issues.
Vern Nelson, former 2-term rural councillor before amalgamation, says the issue of the Water and Sewer Renewal Project should only cost those who it directly benefits:
“I think it basically has to be the users that have to assume the responsibility for what happens within their own area.”
Lyle Morran, the Mayor of Grandview, says residents in the municipality feel strongly about the issue of what the town does with their sewer and water revitalization efforts:
“Well the rural area, because of the land assessment being so high, they do pay a higher percentage of taxes, but then they have more value to their land. But they don’t want to be paying for the town problems, so we had made that decision to put that only on the town tax payers if we go ahead with it.”
During the Grandview Municipality’s council meeting, on December 19th, the council voted to rescind a previous decision to go forward with funding the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.
Reducing the number of councillors on the Municipality of Grandview’s council also was a concern at the meeting. The community has questioned if 4 is enough.
Morran shares the council’s initial view on this matter:
“We felt it would be more efficient. We know that the 8 plus 1 was too much. It seemed like a little bit of the people here, which is predominantly rural, felt there was quite a few town people, but figure we could go to 6 but not 4. They feel that it’s going to become a full-time job and it might eliminate people from running.”
Council is now going to discuss what they heard, at their next council meeting on Tuesday.
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The Rotary Club is celebrating a major anniversary today.
Kathy Bellemare, Membership Chair for Dauphin Rotary Club, explains why today is so special:
“Today has been designated as World Peace and Understanding Day. It’s actually the anniversary of the start of Rotary, it started on February 23rd, 1905, and so that’s why today has been selected.”
The Dauphin Rotary Club currently has 35 members and runs various programs throughout the year promoting peace, fighting disease, saving mothers and children, supporting education, growing local economies, and providing clean drinking water around the world.
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The City of Dauphin has announced a road closure for today.
Margaret Avenue, from Johnson Street to Laura Street, will be closed to all traffic to repair a water main leak.
Be prepared to detour.
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The Dauphin Rotary Club’s Speakeasy Event is almost here.
It’s scheduled for Saturday and will be a pop-up night club, with a 1920’s prohibition theme.
Kara Vanderheyden, of the Dauphin Rotary Club, explains the buzz behind the event:
“With it being the first event like this in Dauphin, we're going to see what the response is, and I’m thinking we’re going to get a good response, because everyone I know who has bought tickets is really excited for the event. Hopefully this will be an annual thing. This year, the proceeds will go to the Women’s Crisis Centre; maybe next year, if there’s a different local organization that wants to partner with us, proceeds can go to a different organization.”
The event is on February 24th, and for tickets contact the Dauphin Rotary Club.
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Mountain View School Division is hosting a Professional Development Day for staff on Monday.
The staff will be able to incorporate what they’ve learned in educating students.
Mountain View School Division Superintendent CEO, Donna Davidson, talks about what the focus of this PD day is:
“With regards to Indigenous education, of course, right across the province and right across this country, the outcomes of our Indigenous learners, we’ve noticed a gap in those areas. Also, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission came out with 94 calls-to-action, and a number of those calls-to-action were directed to educational institutions, and directed at the K to 12 education system and how we can best support Indigenous learners so that they can realize their full potential.”
This PD Day is going to be held in Grandview.
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The repairs in the RM of Grandview are completed.
Water is back on and available to residents in the rural areas of the municipality.
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A health care open house meeting was held in Grandview, hosted by Liberal MLA, Dr. Jon Gerrard this morning.
Residents provided feedback on three questions presented and were able to voice their concerns over local health care issues.
Gerrard notes what he heard the most from people in the audience:
“Clearly at the same time, I heard that there are things we can improve. It’s been very expensive bringing in nurses for locums and that we should do a better job of making sure we have people trained locally that could be nursing here in Grandview and in other parts of this RHA, so we don’t have those extra costs from having to bring locums in from some distance away. We should be doing much more in terms of training local people in nursing and other areas where we need them.”
Local MLA, Brad Michaleski, was in the audience and noted his take on the meeting:
“Pretty much the same thing was repeated, here at the meeting, that I’ve been hearing for a number of months already. The members of the community, they’re concerned for their hospital, they’re concerned for their ambulance, and they know and we know they all do a great job. They just want to be heard and I know I am trying to take that message into my colleagues in Winnipeg. It was a great public venue that was put on here, and I was able to hear the good and the bad, and I will be able to take that back to Winnipeg as well.”
Gerrard went on to tour the Grandview Hospital and ambulance station.
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It was a good turnout at the Dauphin Fire Department’s recruitment night.
The event took place last night and had a full house of community members come out and learn what it takes to become a volunteer firefighter.
Dauphin Fire Chief, Cam Abrey, says he was happy with the interest from the community.
“Honestly shocked that we had this many people come out. I was really nervous about how many people we would have come out this evening. I don’t know what to say other than ‘thanks’ to these members that are thinking of giving back to their community.”
Abrey said the event was a great way to let people know what it takes, and the level of commitment it requires, to become a firefighter, before they decide to join.
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