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Road construction at Campbell Avenue near Dauphin Beach in the RM of Lakeshore could be starting today or Monday.
The construction is being done to fix a few soft spots on the road and could cause delays for people who use the road to commute. It will open at night, but you can expect the road to be rough. Construction should be complete in less than two weeks.
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Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Cameron Friesen announced this week that 154 new medications have been added to Manitoba's Pharmacare program.
Of the medications added to Pharmacare; 120 of them are generic. Also getting coverage are long-acting insulins such as Tresiba, Lantus, Levemir, and Basaglar. They've been moved from part 3 of the formulary to part 1, which means physicians don't need to apply for coverage before the patient gets it from their pharmacy.
Some of the other medications added are Caprelsa, Dysport Therapeutic, Elelyso, Hemangiol, Lynparza, Ocaliva, Odefsey, Procysbi, Renflexis, Rydapt, and Tagrisso, among others.
Coverage for the added medications is effective immediately. For more information on the Manitoba Pharmacare Program, go to gov.mb.ca/health/pharmacare, or talk to your physician or pharmacist.
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Take the Leap is a rural entrepreneurship conference.
For their 10th anniversary, they are changing things up. The event will be starting later in the day, and they are using this year to celebrate and reflect on the past 10 years.
There will be a few speakers including Taunya Woods, Nick Lautt, and Jessica Lorusso. Speaker topics include The Power of Teams, Believability in Business, and Financial Boot Camp Training.
Registration is still available by going to http://www.taketheleapmb.ca or you can email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Dauphin is hosting the Manitoba Community Foundations Regional Meeting this weekend.
Executive Director for Dauphin’s Community Foundation, Kit Daley, shares some of the topics being discussed today and tomorrow.
“We’re going to be talking about capacity building, donor stewardship, getting the word out, board governance, and the 24-hour giving challenge which is coming up in November. It’s going to be a very busy next couple of days".
She shares why they hold these kinds of large meetings.
“It’s an opportunity for delegates from foundations to get together and share ideas and find out what’s working and what can be improved so that we can continue to serve our communities as effectively as possible.”
Winnipeg Foundation is the group putting on the event. Dale explains why Dauphin was chosen to host."
“They are putting on the conference, but we are assisting by offering to host it in Dauphin. I think it’s an opportunity for people to get outside of the city and see a little bit more of the province. We said we are willing to do it and they accepted.”
Dauphin last hosted the meeting almost 20 years ago. Dale says back then there were 20 foundations, and now in 2018, there are 55.
“We’re pretty excited.”
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New Beginnings Daycare in Ochre River raised 5 thousand dollars with the help of Dauphin's Co-op.
Money was raised through the Federated Co-op’s Fuel Good Day, last month.
Liza, One of the daycare organizers, talks about why the service is needed in the community of Ochre River.
“Right now the difficulties in bringing people in, is there’s a wonderful school there but if they enroll their children there the majority of parents work outside of Ochre River. There’s no jobs in Ochre River, per say. So after school, they have no child care, before school, there is no child care.”
“ If they have more than one child, then they put the younger one in, but, the older one is in school there but has no after-school care. Things like that. We are trying to get this thing going. Bring families back, bring kids back to our wonderful school and into their community.”
On September 18th co-op donated five centres for every litre of fuel bought at gas stations in Dauphin.
“We are super happy. Very much appreciative of the whole thing. This takes us much closer to be able to open and hopefully we will see this in the near future.”
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The "Get vaccinated, don't spread the flu" campaign begins tomorrow in the Prairie Mountain Health region.
There's one flu clinic in Grandview next Thursday the 25th at the Kinsmen Community Center from 10 to 6.
Roblin has one next Tuesday the 23rd from 10 to 6 at the Roblin Community Center.
The first clinic in Dauphin is scheduled for Friday, October 26th from 9 to 3 at the community health office.
Getting a flu shot won't cost you anything, and if you want more information, go to prairiemountainhealth.ca.
Starting Monday on CKDM, we'll provide you with daily updates about flu shot clinics in the Parkland.
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Today is International Credit Union Day.
The event is a way to celebrate credit unions.
All proceeds raised at the eighteen Fusion Credit Union locations will go to local charities.
In Dauphin, proceeds go to the Food Bank.
There will be free doughnuts and a harvest auction at all Fusion Credit Union locations.
The event is on all day today.
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Advance Voting for Dauphin City councillors and school trustees is happening today.
If you can't make it to the voting booth next Wednesday the 24th you can cast your vote between 8 this morning and 8 this evening.
Advance voting is taking place at City Hall.
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A Brandon University master’s student from Gilbert Plains received a large grant to research a moth that eats plastic bags.
Harald Grove received 17, 500 dollars to continue his research.
He explains what the funding is going towards.
“I want to look at the Waxworm in terms of its ability to eat plastic. I don’t know if anyone is familiar, Waxworms came out in the news recently a year ago and they found that these little insects will chew through plastic bags. So what I want to know is how that process occurs. So, through the past year we’ve been looking at what genes are being expressed in the Waxworm associated with it’s ability to eat plastic.”
Funding is coming through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant called the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s Award.
He explains the grant he received.
“The NSERC grant, it’s a council in Canada that helps researchers in certain institutions do their research and fund their research. In terms of a master’s level, I applied for it with a lot of help from my supervisor, who helped me, guided me through the process. So I had to explain, basically what I was going to be doing with my research and how I would be using the money to continue my research.”
Greater wax moths are also valuable in research because they are often used as a stand-in for mammals in the study of microbial infections.
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In Dauphin, Coats for Kids is a program ran at the Dauphin Friendship Centre to help keep kids warm during the cold winter months.
The program exists because there’s a need for children to have coats when it gets cold out.
Robin Gambler, one of the coordinators at the Dauphin Friendship Centre, thinks people should donate because winter jackets can be very expensive and no one wants to see children going cold in the winter.
They started asking for donations a couple weeks ago when it got really cold. Donations are accepted at the Dauphin Friendship Centre and will be accepted for another month.
If you have a child in need of a jacket you can go to the Friendship Centre but everything is monitored to make sure someone doesn’t take too much.
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The RCMP has spent some time preparing for cannabis legalization.
In preparation, the RCMP has spent time doing online training and attending presentations. They have systems in place to make sure they enforce the laws properly.
Now that cannabis is legal the RCMP doesn’t anticipate an increase in road stops.
Officers won’t be looking for anything in general when deciding whether they will pull someone over or not. It’s left up to the officer’s judgement.
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