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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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The Municipality of McCreary has implemented a fire ban effective immediately.
All burning within the entire municipality is now off limits to prevent the spread of wildfires.
For more information contact the municipality at 835-2309.
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A matter of revenge porn has emerged in Brandon.
Brittany Roque, a police officer in Rivers, had intimate images she sent to a male Brandon police officer, sent to the detachment.
Allegedly, the images were sent out by Terry Lynn Peters, another woman, who was dating the male officer and formerly worked for the Brandon Police Service.
A lawsuit is pending from Roque, claiming this harmed her chances of being hired in Brandon.
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As the weather warms up and people start getting outside, the people of Ste. Rose are preparing for their second annual Fun and Fitness Walk.
Coordinator for the Ste. Rose Grotto Restoration Committee, Cynthia Maillard, says everyone can participate.
“Anybody can participate, all ages and they can participate by forming a team and if they don’t have a team we can add them to a team as they sign in. (They can participate by) biking, walking, roller blading, all those kinds of things, just to get them moving, any age can walk.”
Cynthia then explains where the money is going.
“The Grotto restoration project and its $15 per person, or $60 a team and once its raised all the proceeds will go to the Grotto restoration fund.”
The Restoration project raised $1200 last year, and this year they’re hoping to improve on that total.
This year, they have added another challenge during the walk in the photo challenge. Walkers are now asked to also take pictures during their walk and submit up to four photos a person for the Grotto Project Calendar.
The registration night is on Monday at 7 in the evening at the Ste. Rose Arena and the contest begins on May 7th and runs to June 15th.
All the rules and regulations and registration forms are at nearly every business in Ste. Rose, and if you have any questions call Cynthia at 447-2351.
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The province is reviewing the Municipal Act in an effort to strengthen the Municipal Code of Conduct and improve council member relations.
They are consulting with both the Association of Manitoba Municipalities and the Manitoba Municipal Administrators Association through a series of roundtable discussions across the province.
Minister of Municipal Relations, Jeff Wharton, tells 730 CKDM it’s important for the province to hear options from all across Manitoba.
“The important thing is to listen and learn from the stakeholders that are on the ground. Coming from the municipal level I understand the importance of listening to the folks, I call them the closest thing to constituents, because they are the grass roots of our communities. The more communities we reach out to over the summer, the input we are going to have to ensure that when we do open the Municipal Act we get this legislation right.”
Meetings are planned for June 8th in Swan River and June 15th in Neepawa, among other locations.
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Residents in the RM of Dauphin must get a permit before burning fields or grass.
Conditions are considerably dry in the Parkland area and one must be cautious when lighting a fire.
Dauphin Fire Chief, Cam Abrey, notes that wind plays a big factor on whether you should burn in fields or not.
“Your ideal conditions would be having a proper fire guard surrounding the property that you are planning to burn on. If it’s possible to some back burning rather than burning with the wind; where it would carry the flames across the field, but burning from the leeward side rather than the windward side. And again watching the wind conditions; so the less wind we have the better. Keeping an eye on the upcoming conditions because if we have any kind of gusting winds that are expected, we can’t always predict what Mother Nature’s going to push on us.”
Permits are free and can be picked up at the municipal office.
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With grass fires burning in the RM of Alonsa, the municipality wants to make sure people remember an important step before starting planned fires.
Contact your local fire department before you begin the burn.
The fire departments want to know the day and time that you are planning to do a controlled burn.
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- Contributed by Josh Sigurdson
