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Mayor Allen Dowhan intends to run for his current position.
He made the announcement last night during the regular city council meeting at City Hall.
We spoke with him after the meeting about his announcement.
“After a lot of soul-searching, and approval from family, also in the last year I’ve been the acting mayor, and I enjoy the position, and I’ve 20 years experience on the City of Dauphin Council, and also I see a bright future for our community and like to be part of it and continue the growth and vibrant community that we have.”
Dowhan says he plans to make it official when he hands in his nomination papers probably next week.
Dauphin’s municipal election is taking place on October 24.
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This is to replace a water service, will reopen to traffic sometime late in the day.
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In the case of the death of 19-year-old Sagkeeng First Nation's Serena McKay, the Crown is prompting a much more severe sentence.
The Crown is seeking a seven year adult sentence for accused who was 16 at the time of the beating.
Her role in McKay’s beating is significant and was also seen photographed covered in blood and videotaped saying she wanted McKay dead.
The older teen involved in the murder, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received just over 3 years in jail.
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A 25 year study following 53,000 Manitobans with alcohol disorders has turned up some alarming facts.
The study reveals that more timely diagnoses and removing barriers to prescriptions and treatments for alcohol addictions is the key to getting quicker care.
The individuals showed an increase use in the child and family services, justice, income assistance, social housing and health care systems.
It was also revealed that the people who were in the study had accessed hospitals and emergency rooms for their alcohol disorder five times more often than the general public.
Those diagnosed with an alcohol disorder have a five times higher rate of dying within one year of being diagnosed.
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Safety on roads is important for everyone, especially when farm equipment is going down a road.
Every year there are about 20 collisions on average between Ag equipment and passenger vehicles in Manitoba.
Renée Simcoe is the Farm Safety Communications Coordinator with the Manitoba Farm Safety Program.
She gave us some safety tips to keep everyone safe when a farmer plans to make a turn.
“If you are planning on making a turn, shut your flashing hazards off for a few seconds before turning on your signal. You want to get the attention of the person following you. If they have been following you for a couple of minutes, even they may stop paying attention to your lights altogether.”
She has some advice for passenger vehicles when they come up behind a slow-moving piece of equipment.
“Pull over, you don’t have to necessarily stop, slow right down if you have to. If there is a nearby approach or road maybe pull over a little bit more and give them that space. A lot of times the roads have steep ditches and if the piece of equipment has to pull right over and one wheel goes into the ditch there could be an incident.”
For equipment drivers the bigger machines have to yield to oncoming traffic and smaller vehicles are not legally obliged to pull over for you, but some do out of courtesy.
She recommends farmers talk with drivers, especially young teenagers and workers about road safety and get their perspective.
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Doctor Jason Reed is sticking around Dauphin.
Reed finished his residency at the end of February and started working at the Dauphin Medical Clinic in March.
Although he only started working in March, he isn’t a stranger to the community.
“I initially wanted to get a rural experience to get a more broad skill set and experience in various aspects of medicine. After working here, early in my residency, I just loved the area, people are they are very friendly, There’s lots of opportunities and I thought it was a great place to start my career.”
Since deciding to stay in Dauphin he’s received lots of positivity from the community.
Reed says people are really happy that he decided to stay in the area and hope he stays long term in the community.
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A vehicle stolen from Dauphin around two months ago was located in Brandon over the weekend.
Brandon Police Service received a call about a Ford Taurus parked in the 300 block of 16th Street.
After running a computer check, it was revealed the car was reported stolen from Dauphin area in late April.
Police are still investigating.
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The spring session has wrapped up in the House of Commons.
Local MP Robert Sopuck shares his concerns about tariffs:
“Our constituency is not immune from anything that goes on in the rest of the country. So, the imposition of tariffs by the United States with the threat of even more tariffs is something that is concerning to me and the economy of our constituency. As you know we are very export-oriented.”
Over the summer break, he’ll be heading out to events, meetings, and parades around this constituency.
It is an important time of year for Sopuck to hear from constituents in person and encourages everyone to let him know your thoughts.
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A pedestrian accident in Sagkeeng First Nation on Saturday morning claimed the life of a 25-year-old woman.
Around 4:00 in the morning, RCMP received a call of a vehicle that struck a woman who was lying on the highway.
The driver contacted the police and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
During the investigation, RCMP determined the female had been struck earlier by another vehicle.
Anyone with information is asked to call RCMP at 204-367-8728.
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One person is dead and another has life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle collision yesterday, north of Dauphin.
It happened around 11:40 Saturday morning on Provincial Road 362, about two kilometres north of Dauphin.
Dauphin RCMP determined that a pickup truck being driven by a 39-year-old male from Dauphin, was travelling westbound on Road 147N when it struck a northbound pickup truck with two inside; a 55-year-old male driver and a 50-year-old female passenger, both from Dauphin.
The two driving in the northbound truck were taken to hospital. The female passenger has life-threatening injuries, and the driver had non life threatening injuries.
The driver of the westbound pickup truck, who wasn’t wearing his seatbelt, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, and later pronounced deceased.
Alcohol isn’t considered a factor in the accident.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Do you have an old second fridge in your basement or garage that you would like to get remove and get paid to get rid of it?
Manitoba Hydro has just the program for that.
Tracy Moroz, Manager of the Appliances and Electronics Market Programs Department, tells us about it.
“The program is designed to save energy and remove those often empty and unused out of sight and out of mind fridges in people’s basements and garages. We do target the program to the second fridges. The fridges people don’t know that are consuming needless energy. It’s not a replacement program; we really want those old fridges out of people’s basements and garages.”
Residents can call 1-855-537-4343 to verify that you qualify to book an appointment and they will come and remove the fridge out of your home for you.
Eligible participants will receive a $50 cheque and can save $100 yearly on their hydro bill by removing a second fridge.
Since the program was launched in 2011, over 2000 old fridges have been picked up in the Parkland.
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