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The South Central Regional Library (SCRL) has dispatched its own delegation in response to a group of concerned citizens asking member municipal councils to withhold funding to the organization until, what they describe as sexually explicit material, is removed from library shelves. 

SCRL Head Librarian, Cathy Ching, along with SCRL Board representative, Laverne Siemens, spoke in front of the Municipality of Rhineland Council at its regular meeting on Wednesday, two weeks after the citizen group presented there.

The case involving a stolen vehicle remains under investigation by Winkler Police. 

Around 10:30 last Tuesday morning, a male parked his pickup truck near the front door of a business in the 800 block of Main Street.

Planning to only be inside the business for a minute, the male left his vehicle running with the keys in the ignition. When he returned to his truck, it had been stolen.

The Winkler Police Service received a report last week of a possible scam regarding a vehicle for sale. 

Supporting the Eden Foundation was a unanimous choice for the staff of Valley Fiber for this year's 'Season of Giving.'
    
The 'Season of Giving' campaign is one way the company decides to give back each year. Until December 31st of this year, Valley Fiber will match your donations to Eden Foundation, the fundraising arm of Eden Health Care Services, up to $5,000.

Altona police have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection to a Halloween night robbery at the Domo Gas Mart in town. 

Saturday morning is starting is very much like Friday ended, with poor driving conditions across parts oft he western Red River Valley and Pembina Valley. Environment Canada ended the Blowing Snow Advisories for the region before 5 a.m., but travel conditions remain challenging.

For the latest Road Report and Cancellation information, click here.

As Southern Manitoba faces the brunt of a second round of snowfall from a stubborn Colorado low, road conditions throughout the region continue to deteriorate. As a result, Pembina Valley RCMP has begun closing highways in the region.

According to the province's 511 map, as of 5:05 p.m. Thursday, the closures include:

Highway 3 from Carman south to the Boundary Trails junction, then west to Highway 34

Highway 13 south from Elm Creek to Carman

Highway 23 from Highway 3 west to Swan Lake

Highway 14 from Rosenfeld to the Junction of Highway 3

A 38-year-old Winkler female, and a 17-year-old female from Roseau River First Nation, are facing multiple charges after a violent incident late Monday night. 

A 17 year old has been charged after a vehicle-pedestrian collision Sunday afternoon in Winkler.

Police Chief Ryan Hunt says officers responded to the scene around 2:45 p.m. at the crosswalk in the 700 block of Main Street. They found a female lying on the roadway with unknown injuries, but conscious, with other motorists having stopped to care for the injured woman.

Over the past few weeks, a number of municipal councils in the region have heard from concerned citizens regarding what the delegations are describing as sexually explicit material available through the South Central Regional Library (SCRL). 
    
The presentations made to the Municipality of Rhineland, R.M. of Stanley and R.M. of Thompson this week, and the Town of Altona last week, were a next step following a September delegation to the SCRL Board of Directors, explained Melissa Hildebrand who made the presentation to Altona council.

Two clinics in the region have issued a memo to area employers as local physicians experience increased demands and workload.
    
The C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre in Winkler and Morden's Menzies Medical Centre have advised that physicians at each facility cannot be providing medical notes for patients and/or employees with minor respiratory or other minor medical conditions for which they would otherwise not see a doctor.