Dauphin RM Looking into Future of Water Pipeline
The RM of Dauphin is going to be surveying residents to see where they should focus phase two of their water pipeline.
Reeve Dennis Forbes says a letter will go out to people not currently in phase one of the project, to see what part of the RM most wants to be included.
"We will get a response back and we will find where the largest population requiring or requesting water (is) and we'll aim in that direction."
Forbes says the next phase of the water line will be very similar to the first phase, and they hope they will be able to maintain the same cost for hook up.
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Gilbert Plains Employer Fined for Workplace Safety and Health Act Violation
The province has released a bulletin on six employers recently prosecuted for violations under the Workplace Safety and Health Act, including one in Gilbert Plains.
The province says Gilbert Plains-based Industrial Hemp Processing has been ordered to pay $20,000 in fines and surcharges for an incident on February 3, 2014 in which a worker suffered serious injuries while removing hemp from a jammed processing machine. The employer pleaded guilty on June 22 of this year to failing to ensure the machine was equipped with a safeguard to prevent coming into contact with moving parts.
The fines from the six employers listed by the province total more than $111,000.
Manitoba Growth, Enterprise and Trade's Workplace Safety and Health branch is reminding employers to ensure workplaces are safe.
Correction: this story first read "five employers" but it is six. We apologize for the mistake.
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Still a Few Weeks of Work Left on Veteran's Drive
Residents of Veteran's Drive in Dauphin will have to be patient for a little while longer.
A major reconstruction of the road is taking place.
Dauphin public works director Bill Brenner said at Monday's council meeting, if everything works and weather is cooperative, we're probably looking at three weeks yet before city sidewalk crews move in.
Brenner was one of a few people at the council meeting to thank residents in the Veteran's Drive area for their patience.
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Manitoba Wants to Withdraw from Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the province wants to give its fishers the opportunity to market their catch any way they want.
The province has served notice it plans to withdraw from a federal Crown corporation that markets freshwater fish.
The Winnipeg-based Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation buys, processes and markets all freshwater fish caught for commercial sale in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.
Pallister says the corporation will continue as a marketing choice for Manitobans who wish to use it.
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Man Convicted Despite Judge Deeming Blood Sample Inadmissible
A Manitoba judge has convicted a man of impaired driving causing death after earlier rejecting blood sample evidence that placed him far above the legal limit.
Justice Robert Cummings ruled shortly after George Wayne Fagnan's trial began almost two years ago in Brandon that the blood evidence wasn't admissible because an RCMP officer wasn't persistent enough in providing him with his right to contact a lawyer.
But Cummings wrote in a written decision that he believed police who said Fagnan smelled strongly of alcohol, was slurring, and seemed to have trouble focusing his eyes at the hospital after the September 2012 crash that killed 43-year-old Ronald Clifford Genaille.
A sentencing date will be set on September 12th.
