There will be some new faces, and one familiar one, around the Mountain View School Division board table following a byelection, last Wednesday.

Floyd Martens will return to the MVSD board as a trustee for Ward 1 along with newcomer Conrad Nabess, while Ward 2 will see Scott Lynxleg take the empty seat and Jarri Thompson will represent the City of Dauphin as a Ward 4 trustee.

Martens, who earned 203 of the 420 ballots cast in Ward 1, was one of three trustees to resign in June. He is looking forward to getting back to work.

“Every time there’s an election and you have people coming to the table. It’s a new board in lots of ways, so we’ll see what happens, what takes place,” Martens said, adding his initial focus will be on the budgetting process and ensuring what is happening in classrooms is benefitting students.

“Things within schools that are happening, that obviously are going to need to be the focus. For me that’s my priority.

“We need to focus on the things that are really significant. The province has been looking at a funding model and may have shared that information with the board, I don’t know. 

“Obviously we’re at budget almost now, so it needs to get in place relatively soon. My thought is where’s that at and what does that look like and what does that mean for Mountain View?”

For Lynxleg, the election was a learning experience that he is looking forward to continuing at the board table.

“My first priority was to get on the board, which is done and now it’s to attend first meetings, catch up on housekeeping of what a board member does. I’d like to hear from all board members now that we have a full board, to hear everybody’s thoughts on what we’re going to do as a board going forward. It’s time for some change, and good change, I think we need it, obviously we do,” he said, adding his goal is to bring the focus back to the children whose education should be the board’s main priority.

“My priority is the kids, all the kids. We kind of lose sight of that and I think somewhere along the road that was lost. What I’m going to be focusing on is working with the board, parents, staff, anybody that wants to contribute, and getting things focused, I guess back where they’re supposed to be.

“First of all we need safe schools and respect for everybody and inclusion and then you go from there.”

Read the full story in this week’s edition of the Dauphin Herald.

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Tuesday, 05 November 2024 14:00

Monarch Wild Rice stocking store shelves

Wild rice has been a hidden treasure in northern Manitoba that many people enjoy eating. Monarch Wild Rice has been processing out of its plant in The Pas and is starting to get its product on store shelves. Ken and Heather Medwid got involved in wild rice processing by chance and have invested to grow the business.
“About eight years ago, I bought into the wild rice processing plant in The Pas and since then, I acquired the plant and bought out the last partner four years ago,” said Ken. “Processing wild rice started in about the 1970s in The Pas in the Quonset. Then, in the early 1980s, a bigger building was built, with the processing part being quite modern with more equipment than other plants had.

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Tuesday, 05 November 2024 13:58

Blizzard split with defending champs

The Northern Manitoba Blizzard earned a split decision on home ice against the defending champion Winkler Flyers this past weekend, though costing them their grasp of first place in the West Division.
The two games saw the Flyers score 11 goals, a defensive anomaly that doesn’t speak to the sort of team Blizzard Head Coach and General Manager Eric Labrosse has assembled.
“Obviously I’d like for our team to let in less goals as we’re supposed to be a defensive-minded team,” said
Labrosse. “Friday’s game was a bit of a roller coaster, and I don’t think we played as bad as the score shows.

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Tuesday, 05 November 2024 13:57

The Pas engages in community safety consultations

Some community engagement sessions were held in The Pas last week as part of the safer communities initiative. Three groups were invited to participate in public sessions to share their thoughts and concerns about community safety as a whole. The Town of The Pas had the Canadian Centre for Safer Communities (CCSC) facilitate all three sessions.
“These were engagement sessions, and there was one for seniors, youth and then the business community,” said Town of The Pas Mayor Andre Murphy. “We had an excellent turnout for the seniors session, with over 30 people in attendance.

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Tuesday, 05 November 2024 08:59

Honouring Our Veterans

 The Royal Canadian Legion Br. 39 organized and paid for banners of local War Veterans to be displayed on the streets of Swan River, specifically the ones that were Killed in Action that the Legion has photos of. In the future, Swan River’s Legion
branch hopes to expand the list of banners to include all Veterans, and hopes families will be willing to sponsor the banners and supply the Legion with a good quality photo and information on their Veteran. 

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Tuesday, 05 November 2024 08:56

Just for Laughs Trick or Treat Style

Children and their parents and guardians enjoyed their evening dressing up and going home to home collecting treats on Halloween (Oct. 31).

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Wednesday, 30 October 2024 16:39

Council celebrates Gregory with Sunshine Award

Dauphin city council took an opportunity to honour Brenda Gregory as they gathered for its regular meeting, Oct. 21.

Gregory is one of four inaugural winners of the City’s new Sunshine Award, but was unable to attend the Oct. 7 presentation of the awards to co-winners Jerry Joss, Clayton Swanton and Carla Wolfenden.

In presenting the award, mayor David Bosiak referred to Gregory’s commitment to the community spanning decades and continuing to this day.

“In the early ‘90s when she was on the rec commission, she was a sports mom, an activity mom involved with her kids in the community and doing a lot of great things in our community. I saw her yesterday at Northgate with the next generation, with her two grandsons, still being up there and caring a great deal,” he said, adding all of the Sunshine Awards winners are similar people in the way they contribute to the betterment of the community with no expectation of acknowledgment or reward.

“Brenda in particular has marshaled the Dauphin Derailleurs Cycle Club since its inception in 2017 and has been like the mother hen of the organization and has nurtured it and supported it. The only other thing I’ll say is that for the last couple of summers in particular, she’s been out on the trails in plus 35 degrees working with the green team with a leaf blower backpack or a weed eater or running kids back and forth on the trail system just making sure that we have this tremendous asset up there at Northgate.”

Read the full story in this week’s edition of the Dauphin Herald.

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Tuesday, 29 October 2024 14:32

Moore hits the runway at Paris Fashion Week

Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) member Madison Moore is stepping back into the spotlight and into the world of modelling. Moore recently went to Paris Fashion Week at the end of September with Ally’s Ribbons. It was an experience of a lifetime for Moore.
“The opportunity to go to Paris Fashion Week happened during Manito Ahbee in May this year,” said Moore. “Alyssia and I were backstage for a fitting, and she asked what I was doing in September. I responded, ‘I’m not sure, working probably.’ Alyssia asked, ‘Are you free to travel the world with me?’ How could I say no? I immediately said yes!”
Moore has been busy modelling for different events leading up to Paris Fashion Week. She has vast experience modelling in front of large crowds at big venues.

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Tuesday, 29 October 2024 14:31

Restoring a work of art to its original greatness

Many of the long-standing murals in the community have seen better days and slowly, thanks to the efforts of some local organizations, they are being restored and given a second life. The Pas Rotary Club recently unveiled the rejuvenation of a mural painted many years ago by artist Michael O’Toole.
The unveiling was on October 22 and started off with a land acknowledgement to recognize that The Pas wasn’t the first community to settle in this spot. This project started out with the vision of a local Rotarian.
“Jim Scott was our chairperson for The Pas Rotary and he was chair for The Pas Revitalization Committee many years ago, which initially got the mural going,” said The Pas Rotarian Robin Reader. “It was to promote tourism. We have tourists that stop through here when they travel by railway to go to Churchill and see the polar bears, so this mural provided them with something beautiful to look at and take pictures of.

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“There are a series of transportation-related scans that occur between depots and processing plants that happen when a parcel is sent to customers. For example, mail and parcels that are sent to The Pas Post Office will receive a transportation departure scan from the Winnipeg Processing Plant and a Flin Flon Depot transportation arrival scan because they are the last destination on the transportation truck route.
“There are multiple stops between Winnipeg to Flin Flon, including The Pas,” said Liu. The parcel is scanned at the Winnipeg Processing Plant, indicating that it is en route to Flin Flon Depot, which is the last possible scan. The parcel is dropped off at The Pas on the way to Flin Flon. The parcel then needs to be scanned, processed by post office employees and carded before the customer picks it up, as The Pas is on the route to Flin Flon, mail and parcels never pass through Flin Flon.

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