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More than 80% of the Bangladeshi community in the Pembina Valley attended a wonderful and vibrant community picnic in the Altona Park on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Bangladeshi Society of Pembina Valley. 

This Saturday from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM, The Property Brokers are hosting their first-ever Property Brokers Open—an exciting multi-home open house event across Winkler and Morden. Tim Friesen and Wes Harder of The Property Brokers invite the public to explore nine homes while enjoying a fun afternoon filled with prizes, giveaways, and community spirit.

The R.M. of Stanley is dealing with even more damage across the municipality after additional rainfall Tuesday morning. 

In an update provided to PembinaValleyOnline late Wednesday afternoon, as of 4:00 p.m. September 18th, the list of currently closed roads include:

Village of Blumenfeld - Roblin St N from Blumenfeld Ave to RD 4N

RD 22W from 4N north to PR201

RD 4N from 1/4 mile east of RD 22W to RD 23W

Village of Chortitz - Chortitz St S at the low-level crossing

RD 18W from RD 9N north to RD 12N

RD 18W from PR 201 north to 8N

There's some good news for Canada's pulse sector as industry representatives gather this week in Winnipeg for the Annual Pulse and Special Crops Convention.

India announced late last week that it would once again extend the timeline for duty-free imports of yellow peas until December 31st, 2024.

India originally lifted the duties on pea imports on a temporary basis in December of 2023 and has continued to issue temporary extensions since then, while the import duty exemption on lentils is in place through March 31, 2025.

It's been a very busy week for Manitoba Hydro crews, with multiple rounds of severe weather Monday night into Tuesday morning leading to extensive outages across the region.

A spokesperson says, at its peak around 6am, more than 2,500 customers in the Red River Valley were without power. The outages were related to the storm activity that had rumbled through the area early Tuesday morning.

Crews made repairs safely, and had the power back on across most of the region by noon. Smaller outages were dealt with until about 10pm last night.  

P&H Milling Group, a division of Parrish & Heimbecker Limited, have started construction on a new, state-of-the-art flour milling facility in Red Deer County. 

A sod-turning event earlier this month marked the start for the $241 million facility which will have the capacity to mill an estimated 750 metric tonnes of wheat daily from Western Canadian farmers.

More than a dozen soldiers were sent to hospital this afternoon after an accident at a military base in Quebec.

Capt. Hermione Wilson, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, says the accident took place at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier.

Wilson says the accident in the base's training area involved two armoured vehicles.

She says civilian and military emergency services responded immediately to the scene.

Wilson says 16 members of the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed he will ask the other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government next week with a non-confidence motion.

A Conservative spokesperson said the motion will simply say the House has no confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government.

Now that the NDP has ended the supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals, the minority government needs to shore up support from opposition parties on a vote-by-vote basis.

"Our infrastructure is facing a challenge of an unprecedented scale." That from Ike Friesen, Reeve for the R.M. of Stanley, in the most recent update provided by the Municipality following Monday's deluge of rain. 

According to the Municipality, 7 to 8 inches fell in some areas within 24 hours, and officials say this record-breaking deluge has exposed the limitations of the area’s current drainage infrastructure. The existing infrastructure, including culverts, ditches, and other stormwater management systems, are being tested to their limit and in some cases, beyond.

According to RCMP, there were no serious injuries in a two vehicle collision Tuesday night just south of Winkler on Highway 32.

It was reported at 8:15 pm last night, and occurred about a mile south of the city at Road 10 North in the R.M. of Stanley. RCMP say an eastbound vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign on Road 10 North entering the intersection, and in doing so, collided with a southbound vehicle.

The 19-year-old male driver of the eastbound vehicle, from the municipality, was charged with Disobeying a Traffic Control Device and Failing to Wear Seatbelt.