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Long- term International students enrolled in Mountain View School Division will now cost the division an extra 30 dollars each per month.
The division will be required to pay the same rate for long-term students as shorter-term ones.
MVSD received word last month that the province is planning to make changes to Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan for international students.
The rate schedule for next year has already been promoted and the division will need to absorb those additional costs in the current year, as well for students confirmed for next year.
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A 16 year old student from the Swan Valley Regional Secondary School will appear in Dauphin court tomorrow morning after he was charged for uttering threats.
It’s reported that the threats involved a plan for violent acts against the high school.
Police have not released any information about what kinds of threats they were.
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The Mountain View School Division is planning to purchase three new gasoline-fuelled buses.
One of the new buses will be equipped with a wheelchair lift with safety hardware.
This year’s purchase is almost 7 thousand dollars lower than last year’s, which cost just over 350 thousand dollars.
This is part of the Bus Replacement Schedule and overall the costs of the buses this year are 10% lower than anticipated.
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A local fundraiser to support mental health and youth programs in the Parkland is taking place on Saturday.
The Voices of Angels concert and fundraiser will be at the Watson Arts Centre.
Parkland Region Outreach Manager for Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba, Eleanor Snitka tells 730 CKDM about the entertainment.
“We always have an individual whose going to tell their personal story of lived experience and recovery and it’s a way for people, again trying to overcome that stigma and of us doing it in a way that entertaining way.”
Tickets are $15 each and available at the WAC or by calling Eleanor at 638-7278.
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Tributes continue to come in for the Humboldt Broncos.
Hockey fans left their sticks out front of their homes, with their porch lights on to honour the fallen hockey players in a movement that went viral.
Many also wore green to show their support across the country yesterday.
The GoFundMe page has become the most successful in Canadian history, and now sits at $7.1 million.
The fund is now 4th all time in GoFundMe history.
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Spring has sprung early at Parkland Crossing.
Their greenhouse project continues to grow and moving into the summer they are growing in size.
Jamie Harvey, Director of Parkland Crossing explains how the project is going.
“It’s new and exciting every day. I come in early in the morning just to see what’s changed overnight. Most recently we’re starting to see the tomatoes ripen. They are slowly fading from green to yellow to red. It’s always exciting to see change every day. Our most recent edition is a herb garden section with nine different kinds of plants that we’re growing.”
If you are interested in the project, call Parkland Crossing at 638-3333.
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Tickets are now on sale for the DRCSS’s upcoming musical.
Students are getting ready to perform the Little Mermaid from April 25th-28th.
Andrew Coombs, a teacher at the high school, encourages everyone to pick up a ticket for the show.
“We started working on this in December. Now that we’re into month five of rehearsals, we are getting really, really close to being ready to perform it at the end of April.”
Tickets have been on sale for four days and are already selling fast.
You can pick up your tickets by going to the DRCSS office.
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As of noon today 12 people from the Humboldt Broncos bus crash are still in the hospital.
Of that, 4 are in critical condition and 4 are in serious condition.
There other 4 are in stable condition.
At a press conference tonight, it was announced that a code orange was called at the Saskatoon hospital, the first time it was called in doctor’s recent memory in Saskatchewan.
The code allowed them to tap into additional personnel resources, materials and equipment.
As of 6:25 p.m., the GoFundMe page set up was over $ 6.2 million for the team.
It was also announced that over 400 Manitobans signed up to become organ donors after the incident, and Bronco Logan Boulet had signed up just a few weeks ago on his 21st birthday, helping save 6 people’s lives.
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Nearly $3,000 was raised at Whitmore School’s Spring Bazaar and Indoor Garage Sale.
The sale was on Saturday, and included raffles, a silver collection and numerous people tabling their garage sales in the school.
Stacey Penner, from the Parent Partnership Committee at Whitmore School explains that there’s still time to donate to the school’s playground fund.
“We would constantly, graciously accept funds for our playground structure if people are willing to do that. I know Whitmore School also has an annual garage sale and Christmas sale. So if anybody were to have any major donations that at some point they’d like sold where the proceeds go to the school, I know the school would accept something like that as well from community members.”
To donate to the fund or for more information, contact Whitmore School at 638-4782.
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Dauphin’s Second Annual Arts Fest was an overwhelming success.
Events ran throughout the week, starting on March 31st and closing last night with the Final Showcase.
Martijn van Luijn, Co-Chair for the Arts Fest, talks about his initial thoughts following the week.
“It’s hard to put it into one sentence. There was so much going on; it just feels so overwhelming on the first day after the eight-day festival. We are very happy with it; the response has been generally very good too.”
Events ran every day at the Watson Arts Centre and throughout Dauphin during the Festival.
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A documentary narrated by Neil Degrasse Tyson is showing tomorrow evening in Brandon.
Hosted by the Manitoba Canola Growers, ‘Food Evolution’ looks into GMOs and how they’re affecting the food we eat and the food industry.
Leanne Campbell, Communications Manager with the MCG talks about why the group decided to show the documentary this week.
“From the work we have done, we found consumers are very curious about where their food comes from. Often they have lots of questions about GMO crops. This movie will touch specifically on some of those issues and we are hoping the panel discussion following that will further that conversation.”
You can still get tickets for the showing that takes place tomorrow at 6 in the evening at the ACC campus.
Tickets are only $12 each and feature a panel discussion after the documentary, and you can get them here.
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Tickets are now sold out for both the Winnipeg and Brandon showings.
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