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A meeting to gather ideas and opinions on changes to the conservation districts was held in Dauphin yesterday afternoon.
The acting Manager of the Watershed Planning and Programs Section for the province, Erin Dunbar, explains the main focus of the meeting:
“The main purpose of today’s meeting is to gather feedback and gather ideas from municipalities and conservation districts on the future boundaries of watershed districts.”
Dunbar also explains the timeline for when watershed districts will come into effect:
“We will continue to work with municipalities and districts over the next fiscal year as we prepare for this transition. But the transition won’t occur until at least April 2019.”
Dauphin held the 5th and final regional meeting held in Manitoba.
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The Senate passed the pot bill today with a vote of 44 to 29.
The bill is now on its way to five separate committees to be reviewed further.
The government is still mandating full legalization to take place this summer.
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There were reports of heavy police presence at Ebb and Flow First Nation this afternoon.
RCMP spokesperson, Tara Seel, stated that residents should avoid the community’s north access road.
She also stated that there was no lockdown and that residents were not at risk.
RCMP left the area later in the afternoon.
CKDM will report on the incident as updates became available.
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Pallister has vowed to replace the hydro board members who stepped down yesterday in less than 24 hours.
Only one board member, Conservative MLA Cliff Graydon, has continued to hold his position.
One of the spots on the newly appointed board will go to the Premier.
The board stated that Pallister wouldn’t meet with them to discuss matters, which prompted them to resign.
Pallister then accused the board of wanting to offer the Manitoba Metis Federation $70 Million dollars to sweeten a deal.
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The Grandview Royal Canadian Legion is getting ready for their annual Head Cheese Contest.
The event includes a judged competition along with an auction with donated items from around the community.
Tony Safronetz, Executive of the Grandview Legion, explains the history of the contest:
“This is our 19th anniversary of our head cheese contest. It’s an odd name for a contest, but that’s the way it got started 18 years ago. We were sitting in a corner in our legion discussing how to make head cheese and all of a sudden, way she went!”
The event starts at 6:00 and goes to 10:00 at night on April 6th at the Grandview Legion.
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Dauphin student, Anna Orisko, is proving that anyone at any age can raise funds for Dauphin’s Habitat For Humanity’s second build.
She has been hard at work getting the message out of what Habitat does for the community.
“So right now we just started our youth program. I’m getting kids from the middle school; I don’t want to ask kids for money, I just really want to have them learn about Habitat for Humanity. So we are going to go around to all the elementary schools in Dauphin and just kind of spread the word.”
Orisko spoke at last night’s Habitat for Humanity fundraising kickoff event at the Watson Art Centre.
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Dr. Murray Davies, a physician in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, has been charged with improperly prescribing opioids and benzodiazepines to patients.
Other physicians were concerned some of these patients were selling or giving these drugs out to other people.
Dr. Davies is facing two charges of unprofessional conduct under The Medical Profession Act.
In 2014, he also lost the ability to prescribe methadone to patients.
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The Dauphin Chapter of Habitat For Humanity officially kicked off their fundraising campaign.
The group began fundraising last night to raise money for the second build.
Fundraising committee member, Wayne Olson, is excited about the big donation the group received in support of their $250,000 goal.
“One of the things tonight that we wanted to showcase was that Rotary just gave us a cheque for $10,000 that will go towards the build. We are going to be out in the community and we’re going to ask people to help us help a family in the community.”
Rotarian Kathy Bellemare attended the event last night and says Rotary thinks it’s important to help give a hand-up to members of our community.
“We believe that all members of the community are important. This provides us an opportunity to give someone an opportunity to own a home and that’s really powerful.”
Habitat is holding fundraising events throughout the community until they’re able to raise the required amount of funds to begin construction.
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Gilbert Plains is holding a fundraiser for their Splash Park.
The gala is on Thursday starting at 5 and will include a supper, auctions and games at the Gilbert Plains Community Hall.
Cory Gulenchin, Vice President of the Gilbert Plains Splash Park Initiative, explains what the auction entails.
“We put a little bit of a touch on this one, our local meat-cutter in town, Nick, has made us up different types of kielbasa. We’re going to be auctioning rings of kielbasa, and when you purchase the ring for a certain price, you will be entered into a draw where you’ll be getting something a lot bigger than that.”
For tickets, contact Cory at 648 4747 or visit their Facebook page.
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Grandview Municipality has turned the water back on as of 8:10 p.m. this evening. The water was turned off to repair a major water break.
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Potential cutbacks to international student medical coverage by the province, could impact Mountain View School Division’s program.
Bart Michaleski, Secretary/Treasurer for MVSD, explains the concern:
“We’re lacking some information, currently, on that but we set a fee schedule annually for our students that are coming for the next school year. We already accepted a number of students for the next school year and we accepted them based on our approved fee structure. Within that fee structure, we have a small premium that international students pay for health and that’s something that’s obviously likely to change.”
Each student pays on average, about $20,000 for the school year to attend.
The program has brought cultural diversity as well as provided an economic benefit to the area.
On average, with the program, the Parkland has seen $850,000 annually with 40% of that going to the division and the rest to the area.
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