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Steve Sobering will be officially making the move from the council seats to the mayor's chair for the next four years.
The former city councillor was voted as Dauphin's new mayor on Wednesday night, collecting 829 votes to defeat Keith Durston and Carter Taylor-Luke.
Sobering admits the next city council will be kept busy during the next term with a number of key projects, including the new justice center and the rebuild of the Dauphin Hospital.
Sobering is also excited to get back working on the craft district project, which is proposing to enhance a portion of the city's downtown.
There will be a lot of experience joining Steve Sobering at the Dauphin City Council table over the next four years.
Four incumbent councillors were voted back to the council table, including Christian Laughland, Devin Shtykalo, Ted Rea and Randy Daley.
They will be joined by newcomers Scott McCallum and Michelle Nyquist.
Some familiar faces will not be returning to the Mountainview School Division board of trustees, after unofficial results were released late Wednesday night.
Former school board chairs Jason Gryba and Gabe Mercier were not re-elected in Ward 3, replaced by Matthew Bayduza and Wanda Sime.
Ward two will be represented by Kyle Lylyk, while ward four will be represented by Jarri-Ann Thompson, Michelle Smigelski, Rodney Juba and Daniel McKay.
Several recent mayors and reeves were bumped from their jobs during voting Wednesday night.
Lyle Morran was beaten by Tom Barnett for the Mayor's position in Grandview, Jim Manchur fell to former reeve Larry Malowski in the Gilbert Plains Municipality Reeve race, while Thomas Matthews defeated Ken Cameron to become the new mayor of Minnedosa.
Lance Jacobsen held off Ainslee White by a 2 to 1 count to remain mayor Swan River, while Reynald Sahulka held on to the Reeve's chair with Mossey River Municipality.
Other mayor or reeve races saw Chris Radford defeat former MLA Len Derkach for the mayor's job in Russell-Binscarth, Kevin Boese became the new Reeve of Ethelbert Municipality, Shawn Buchanan will now head up McCreary Municipality as its reeve, while Kalvin Kreshewski received over half of the vote to become Reeve in Rossburn Municipality.
On the council side, Ivan Worrall, Shari Maillard, Steven Hopfner and Julie Peloquin will join newly acclaimed mayor Robert Killam on the Municipality of Ste Rose council.
Claude Hykawy, Rick Paradis, and Crystal Charlebois-Fiddler claimed council seats in the RM of Lakeshore.
In the City of Dauphin, vote totals are as follows:
Mayor
Steve Sobering - 1136 Votes
Keith Durston - 752 Votes
Carter Taylor-Luke - 91 Votes
Councillor
Christian Laughland - 1437 Votes
Ted Rea - 1379 Votes
Randy Daley - 1210 Votes
Devin Shtykalo - 1174 Votes
Scott McCallum - 1145 Votes
Michelle Nyquist - 1125 Votes
Jason Alf - 1092 Votes
Amanda Novak - 869 Votes
Michael Winter - 410 Votes
Richard Mitchell - 178 Votes
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Earlier in the year, the Dauphin & District Food Bank was donated 70 acres of land by the City of Dauphin, and numerous community groups and businesses made donations to help grow a crop, and sell it for profit for the food bank. Yesterday, the food bank announced that fundraiser ended up generating $39,003.37.
Don Dewar, Owner of Dewar Seed Farms, is a former food bank board member. He was one of the partners involved in the project - he helped with seeding the land, and contributed both equipment and labour to make sure the project went well. When he heard the total raised, he was a bit surprised, in a good way. Looking ahead, he said he hopes the food bank will want to run this project again next year, and if they do, he'll be ready.
"Well, it's a little more than I thought it would be, but I guess prices had gone up, and there was no cost to the food bank, so it was all clear profit for them...we're hoping the food bank is going to request to rend the land or use the land again," said Dewar.
There's no doubt the project's success was in large part because of all the donations the food bank received. Some of them include Dewar's contributions, Intermountain Ag Supply providing seed and crop protection products, Dauphin Co-op contributing fuel and fertilizer, and Cargill Grain handling the delivery and purchase of the crop after harvest. Dewar said one of the most notable was the City of Dauphin, who donated the land, and allowed the food bank to use it rent-free.
"[The City] actually allowed them to use it rent-free, which was another big plus, no cost for the land...it's only 70 acres, so when you think about it, it's not a lot, but really there was probably close to $30,000 worth of inputs that were donated," said Dewar.
The Dauphin & District Food Bank is always looking for volunteers and donations. If you'd like to get involved, you can reach them at 204-638-7853.
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Thursday will mark the first day for Dauphin's new mayor and city council.
And the outgoing mayor has some advice for the people taking on the job.
David Bosiak says they worked hard in building a positive relationship with the provincial government, and in particular with senior members of cabinet.
He hopes the new Dauphin city council will continue to work on strengthening that relationship.
"I think that if we had not created the relationships, the challenges of getting in front of a senior minister - it is a big challenge. I saw that before I became mayor in my years of working for the provincial government. When organizations or communities wanted to get their issues on the table, often times if you didn't have those relationships, you had to go through a number of layers of bureaucracy before you can actually talk to the people who can make those decisions."
When elected as mayor in 2022, Bosiak pledged to serve just one term as the city's mayor.
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The City of Dauphin's Public Works team is now working through the Day 4 area for this year's annual Fall Clean-Up Program.
In a Facebook post, the City of Dauphin said as of yesterday, staff were in the area of Bond Street and Fuller Street. The City expects the Fall Clean-Up Program to be completed by the end of this week.
In addition, regular curbside yard waste collection has been extended another week, with the final week for pick-up now from November 3rd to 6th.
The City also wants to remind residents that if needed, they can dispose of additional yard waste at the Compost Site - located at the City's Waste Disposal Site - free of charge.
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CKDM NewsNow's Manitoba Municipal Election Coverage is set to start at 7:45 PM tomorrow - 15 minutes before polls close.
After polls close, CKDM NewsNow's Ian Gillingham will be live on location at the City of Dauphin's reporting centre with real-time election updates, and CKDM's Jeff Henson will be in studio, speaking with already acclaimed councillors across the Parkland.
We'll keep you informed when races are called all across the Parkland, from Swan River's mayor race, to Roblin's 18 councillors, to the 3 mayoral candidates in Dauphin.
On Election Day, City of Dauphin residents can vote at the Dauphin Friendship Centre, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.
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This Saturday is the nomination deadline for the 2027 Manitoba Outstanding Young Farmer program.
The award will be handed out next March after a competition at the Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg, with the winner representing the Keystone province at nationals, which will also be in Winnipeg in November of 2027.
Nominations chair Kristy Lane-Carr says there are some criteria that nominees need to meet.
"If you are applying as a single person or as a couple or partner, at least one of the partners needs to under the age of 40 as of January 1st of 2027, and two-thirds of your income must be derived from primary agriculture."
The 2026 recipients were Brayden and Misty Drul of Oakburn.
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Every 4 years, City of Dauphin staff undertake one of their largest executive projects - managing the Municipal Election. One part of that is running advance voting, which took place on Thursday, October 22nd.
Lisa Gaudet, Deputy City Manager, said this year's advance voting went exceptionally well. This year saw 357 ballots cast during advance voting, which is less than 2022's Municipal Election. But Gaudet says that's not a bad sign.
"We did have a steady stream of voters coming into City Hall, 357 voters. Yes that is a decrease since 2022, when we had 541, but one difference between the two elections is the number of candidates running for council, so in 2022 we had 17 candidates running for the 6 council positions, compared to 10 candidates this year," said Gaudet.
Election day is tomorrow. Gaudet said her staff are putting some finishing touches on the process, and they're ready to go. She said her team is top-notch, and she expects the process to go well.
"I have an excellent election planning team here at City Hall, we have all of our supplies ready, we're going to be at the Dauphin Friendship Centre [today] setting everything up, and we'll be ready for polls to open 8:00 AM on Wednesday the 28th, we encourage everyone to bring their identification with them when they come to vote," said Gaudet.
The City of Dauphin's voting will take place at the Dauphin Friendship Centre, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Starting at 7:45 PM, CKDM NewsNow will have live-on-location coverage from the reporting centre, and will be giving updates on elections all across the Parkland.
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The Lakeshore Regional Wellness Centre in Ashern opened their doors on September 27th of last year, after a lot of work was put in to make the place more welcoming. Fast forward to last Friday, where they welcomed their 10,000th visitor.
Tim Cameron, Lakeshore Regional Wellness Commission Past President, said it's a lot more visitors than they expected in just over a year, but it's a very welcome surprise.
"We were very very surprised, it was the former Ashern Curling Rink, and we converted it into a wellness centre when the curling rink closed it's doors...took us about 8 years to get this into operation, and we opened a year ago last September, and so to get 10,000 in our first year, we were quite surprised, we knew it was going to be popular," said Cameron.
The Lakeshore Regional Wellness Centre has come a long way from just being a curling rink. They offer a wide variety of programs for all ages and groups, including pickleball, court shuffleboard, and special events like trivia. Cameron said this success isn't going to slow them down - if anything, it'll push them to keep finding more ways to serve the community.
Running some quick math, the Lakeshore Regional Wellness Centre averaged around 25 visitors per day since they opened.
"You got a lot of days that are really busy and some that aren't busy, so it averages out to good numbers of people, that's for sure...we are always looking at different programs, whether it be board games or maybe even bingos, we do music trivia, and we do trivia nights and puzzle making, we're always looking for something different, we have play groups for the little ones in the mornings," said Cameron.
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Two Dauphin Kings are heading to Saskatchewan.
The Manitoba Junior Hockey League announced its roster for the Western All-Star Challenge on Monday and the Kings will be well represented. Dauphin's own Quinten Fisk and standout rookie goaltender Tate Barnaby made the team.
Quinten Fisk:
In his second year with his hometown team, Quinten has been excellent.
In 15 games, he leads the team with 10 goals. He has 14 points. In 48 games last year, he had 19 points. Well on his way to a career year, Fisk is a game changer. He has two game-winning goals.
He's also a power play specialist. He has five goals on the man advantage. Only Bennett Muller has more on the team.
Quinten has goals in back-to-back games. He also has two multi-goal games. He scored twice on October 4 against Portage and again on October 10 against Steinbach.
Tate Barnaby:
What the recently turned 17-year-old has done to start his junior hockey career has been nothing short of incredible.
He made his MJHL regular-season debut on September 25. He made 23 saves on 25 shots. Five days later, he went 19-for-19 in relief of Bryson Yaschyshyn.
Then on October 2, Tate recorded his first shutout. He made 21 saves against the Winnipeg Blues. Two days later, he was at it again. Tate went 19-for-19 for his second straight shutout.
Barnaby made another 33 saves in a marquee win against Steinbach. He went 13-for-13 in relief against the Monarchs last Friday.
Through the first eight games of his junior career, Tate is 3-2. He has a sparkling .936 save percentage. That's the best in the league by eight percentage points. Joe Naccarato of Swan Valley has a .928 save percentage. Barnaby has a 2.00 goals-against average.
That's the third-best.
"Yeah, it's an honour. There are so many great players participating," said Barnaby. "I have a great team in front of me. Most of my success comes from them. It's an honour to represent the Dauphin Kings. I'm super happy for Quinten. It's going to be great going up there with him. I'm proud to represent Dauphin and the community. I want to thank my team for getting me to this point."
Western All-Star Challenge:
The three-day event sees Team MJHL play Team SJHL twice. Game one is on Tuesday night at 7:45. Game two is Sunday morning at 11:30.
The event was created for players to showcase their talents in front of scouts from U Sports and the NCAA.
In last year's event, the teams split two meetings. Loik Leduc and former Dauphin King Ethan Stewart scored in the opening game. Team SJHL won 3-2.
In the second game, Cole Hunter scored twice in a 5-4 win for Team MJHL. Bryce Bryant, Lincoln Black-Greaves, and Rory Gilmour also scored.
In the 2024 event, the two teams split. Former King Matthew Thomas scored once. Dru Mushumanski of Rossburn scored twice. Blake Matheson also scored. Team MJHL won 4-2. In the second game, Team MJHL was shut out 2-0.
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The Fall Rotary Book Sale was another massive hit.
Organizer J-L Guillas says they managed to raise $11,345 during the three day sale this weekend, just shy of the record for this event.
Guillas adds he is amazed by how the community reacts to this event every year.
"For lots of people, this is their winter reading. And then they stock up again in the spring and give us back the books (they bought), and some of them get sold again. It is fantastic."
Most of the proceeds from this sale go to youth related activities supported by the local Rotary club.
They also made an over $14-hundred cash donation to the Dauphin School Aged daycare, as well as several children's books to help them replenish their stock that was damaged during this summer's floods.
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