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The Traffic lights at River and Mountain are officially turning on this afternoon.

At 2 today MLA Brad Michaleski along with staff from Manitoba Infrastructure are turning the green lights on.

Until then they are flashing both red and yellow.

Yellow means approach with caution and treat it like a yield and red means treat it like a stop sign.

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The City of Dauphin is hopeful that the Manitoba Electoral Boundaries Commission will strongly consider their proposal.

They expressed their concerns about the proposed electoral boundaries that lump Dauphin with Swan River.

Mayor Allen Dowhan presented at the meeting and shares how the consultations this morning went.

“Certainly there were differences of opinion, but the boundary commission listened to all people, and some valid points were presented. The rest is left to the boundary commission to decide. We feel that our submission along with the chamber and a few other people, there were really no questions of our presentation. And hopefully, they will consider what we presented.”

 

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The City of Dauphin has concerns about the proposed provincial electoral boundaries that lump Dauphin with Swan River.

They plan to share their own proposal at the public forum this morning at the rec centre.

Mayor Allen Dowhan shares what they are proposing.

“The traditional area trading pattern follows an east/west pattern, while the boundaries commission proposes a north/south pattern. We’re proposing to rename the electoral boundaries in our region to ‘Parkland.’”
They want the boundaries to represent similar communities of interests such as Gilbert Plains and Grandview.

“It’s so important because in the proposed boundaries, communities like Gilbert, Grandview are the constituency that goes all the way down to Hamiota. They don’t have interests with Hamiota or anybody in that region.”

Roblin, Grandview, Gilbert Plains and Saint Rose all share similar community interests like school boundaries, medical, dental, recreation, airport and other services. Dauphin’s proposal encourages and develops regional economic development enterprises to sustain the population.

“Our Mountain View school boundaries in three different areas on the [Electoral Commission’s] proposal. Just inefficiencies in contacting our government representatives and also inefficiencies in communications with our tax payers.”

Another issue is the indigenous populations are excluded from the current Dauphin and Swan River proposal, even though their communities form a large part of the east and west trading, health and cultural patterns.

The public hearing starts at 10 in the Lion’s Den.

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Manitoba Hip Hop artist HellNback is coming to Dauphin as part of the Manitoba Arts Network Outreach Tour.

He’s speaking about the program and performing tonight.

HellNback says this is program offers an opportunity for northern artists to access the same programs that artists in Winnipeg get.

“We get to talk about the programs that are available for aboriginal artists.  If they want to take their art more seriously this is a perfect program to come in and learn about. These are programs that are offered just not everybody, from up north or in Dauphin, can come to Winnipeg. So basically the Manitoba Arts Network hired us to come out and give some information sessions to the youth and emerging artists.”

The information session, professional development opportunity, and performance by the Hip Hop Artist starts at 6  at the Watson Art Centre and is free to attend.

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The traffic lights at River and Mountain are running.

Today they are flashing yellow in one direction and red on the other. Flashing yellow means approach with caution and treat them like a yield sign. Flashing red means stop.

MLA Brad Michaleski, along with staff from Manitoba Infrastructure, are officially turning on the traffic signals tomorrow at 2pm.

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Nominations are now accepted for Municipal Elections.

You can hand in your filled out nomination papers starting today at 9 am.

Kirk Dawson, the City of Dauphin’s Senior Election Official, says it’s already been busy at city hall.

“You can drop off your nomination papers if they wish to run for mayor or council. That runs through September the 18th at 4:30 PM. We’ve had a brisk start to the day.”

He encourages anyone handing in their packages to have a few extra signatures.

“We ask for 25 eligible voters’ signatures to be nominated. But we ask for two or three more just to ensure that there are no complications in last minute, whether maybe the person hasn’t resided in the city for six months or something that might disqualify them for some reason. By getting an extra three or four then it really makes the process very simple and avoids any last minute delays in getting nominated.”

The names of those on the ballot will be announced next Thursday at one in the afternoon in the council chambers of City Hall.

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Manitoba’s Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission wants to hear your opinion about where you vote in provincial elections.

The commission is holding a public hearing tomorrow at 10 in the morning in the Lion’s Den at the Rec Complex.

Alison Mitchell Manager of Communications & Public Information with the commission explains why this change is going on.

“The Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission is something that is legislated to happen every ten years in the province to ensure effective representation for all Manitobans. There is a commission that does all the initial work and makes the proposals on how the electoral divisions should change. But public participation is a primary part of the review.”

She shares some of the issues people typically have concerns about.

“People may have voted in a particular place for a long time and have an association with a particular community and if there’s a change coming there may be a concern that that’s not going to fit with their views of their community. Or it may not reflect the way they see their area of the province. That’s why there is room for this public consultation. We do really want to get a sense from Manitobans of what’s important.”

If you want to attend the meeting, find out where the lines are suggested to be changed to and to see how the population is divided to go the commission’s website at boundariescommission.mb.ca.

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Canada postal workers are closer to going on strike.

They voted in favour of strike action if a deal couldn’t be reached between the union and the company.

They could go on strike as early as September 26th.

The union says about 8,000 rural letter carriers earn at least 25 per cent less than their 42,000 urban colleagues.

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Next week, from September 17th to the 23rd Tim Hortons is putting on the Smile Cookie Campaign.

The campaign is to support over 500 non-profit organizations in Canada.

Tim Hortons chose to support Whitmore School in Dauphin.

All money raised in Dauphin goes towards the Whitmore School Play Structure Fund.

For each cookie sold, 1 dollar gets donated. Cookies are 1 dollar each.

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The fire ban in Prairie View Municipality and the RM of Lakeshore has ended.

Both the Rorketon Fire Chief and the Ochre River Fire Chief the RM of Lakeshore is lifting their fire ban effective immediately.

As of today, the ban is lifted in all three wards of Prairie View Municipality including the town if Birtle and Miniota.  

The municipality still cautions lighting fires if conditions in your area are dry or it’s windy.

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Last night at 6 pm, the Dauphin Fire Department was called to a garage fire on 10th Avenue SE.

The owner of the property was barbequing, they went inside their house to get some utensils and when they came out, the surrounding area was on fire, leading to their single car garage and RV Camper to be on fire.

The fire was under control and put out rather quickly.

The firefighters had to stay longer due to live voltage from fallen hydro lines. Manitoba Hydro arrived on scene to make it safe.

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Nicole Chychota is the RM of Dauphin’s new Chief Administrative Officer.

Chychota started her new role yesterday.

She is excited about this new opportunity and shares what drew her to a government job.

“The government always intrigued me and I was always interested to learn how it all worked. I think the Dauphin Municipality has been able to do a lot of great things for the residents and I wanted an opportunity to have a job where I could continue that great work for everyone.”

She shares what she’s looking forward to as the new CAO of the municipal government.

“I’m just looking forward to the challenge of the job. I think it provides a lot of learning opportunities and a lot of opportunity for growth and I just think it’s a really wonderful opportunity for growth.”

Chychota grew up in the small farming community of Oakville Manitoba and received her Bachelor of Business Administration at Brandon University. She's lived in Dauphin for many years. “About four and a half years ago I moved to Dauphin, and I worked at Sigvaldason McMaster & Company where I took my Chartered Professional Accountant designation.” She continues talks about what she thinks of Dauphin, “I absolutely love it. I’m an outdoors person. I love fishing and quadding, and all of that. I think this is an absolute paradise for anyone who loves to be outside.”

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