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Local emergencies in the R.M. of Dauphin can now quickly be dispatched to rate payers.
Alerts about local issues like fire bans, road closures and water breaks are dispatched to a phone, in an email or text from All-Net Connect.
Robin Wiebe, CAO for the R.M. of Dauphin, explains how this is tied to the GIS mapping system to limit messages to a specific area.
“This system is also connected to our GIS mapping system, so just because something like an emergency happens in one place like a localized flooding, we don’t actually bother necessarily everybody in the municipality with that message. We have it connected to the GIS mapping systems, so we’re actually able to limit the messages to an area we map out.
All-Net Connect is free, and you can sign up at rmofdauphin.ca or call the municipal office at 638-4531.
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Free small recycling bins will be going to residents in the City of Dauphin for inside their homes to make recycling easier.
3000 small bins will be distributed to single family residences thanks to a partnership with Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association.
Recyclables can be transported from that bin into the big blue one for pick up.
Bins will be delivered to homes starting on Monday, beginning with Day 1 and working through to Day 4.
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A semi-trailer rollover on Highway 21 last night with 60 cows in the trailer.
The driver lost control about a kilometer south of Highway 1.
The semi driver sustained no injuries in the accident.
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The Mossey River Municipality has issued a burning ban in effect immediately.
If you have any questions, you can contact the municipal office at 656-4791.
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The R.M. Of Dauphin is now active with a local emergency alerting system.
Residents were asked to register for the service on April 20.
Accounts can be managed online and alerts can be received by a phone call, text, or email to a device of one’s choosing.
Notices such as burning bans, local flooding, road closures, and water breaks will be relayed.
The system is All-Net Connect, and it works with the federal government’s website, Environment Canada and RCMP to receive national emergency alerts, Amber Alerts and weather warnings.
To sign up contact the municipal office at 638-4531 or go online to rmofdauphin.ca.
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A temporary conservation restriction has been put on walleye for Lake Dauphin.
Manitoba Sustainable Development put it in place effective immediately, to protect the walleye population during the spawning period.
During this restriction, no commercial or recreational fishing is allowed.
Aboriginal rights holders may continue to harvest all species of fish by angling only, and must release any walleye between 45 and 70 centimetres in length.
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Dauphin’s curbside yard waste program starts on Tuesday.
Curbside collection of the green yard waste bins will continue bi-weekly throughout the summer and move forward into fall.
The City wants people to refer to the 2018 Garbage, Recycling and Waste Schedule for pickup.
The rolling bin needs to be at the curb by 7 in the morning on collection day.
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Swan River’s Rainbow Lodge, a seniors’ housing complex, is battling an infestation of bed bugs, but the problem has been ongoing for years.
Spraying to get rid of the insects is to take place today, but residents have to leave the building completely, forcing residents to take their belongings and clean everything.
A spokesperson for Manitoba Housing reported to the media, that 590 treatments have been done for bedbugs in the building since 2014.
Families would like to see the entire building treated for issue, however Manitoba Housing won't because not all the units have bedbug activity, but will offer to refer seniors and their family a ‘bug and scrub’ program.
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More than 6,000 votes were cast for close to 700 roads in CAA’s “Worst Road in Manitoba” and Empress Street in Winnipeg came out on top.
Along with Empress, six of the top ten worst roads were located in Winnipeg, while Provincial Roads 450, in Boissevain, 247 in La Salle and 353 in Brookdale reached the list.
Empress has appeared in the top ten lists for years and is slated to see improvements this year.
Voters said potholes, crumbling pavement and bad cycling and walking infrastructure as their biggest concerns.
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The Manitoba Nurses Union caught a line in the budget that has them concerned.
$2.3 million dollars could be cut from long term care services.
Sandi Mowat, President for the union, notes the need for personal care homes is growing
“It certainly is growing because our aging population in Manitoba confirms that fact and so it is growing.”
The union wrote a letter to Minister Goertzen asking him to clarify it and haven’t received a response.
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Hey, hey, hey, Bill Cosby was found guilty today.
Cosby, 80, was found guilty of 3 counts of felony sexual assault.
A jury found him guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a Canadian woman at his home in Pennsylvania.
Cosby was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault against the Temple University employee he was mentoring.
The charges included penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious and penetration after administering an intoxicant.
Cosby could be sentenced up to 10 years in prison for each count of assault.
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