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A cheque presentation Tuesday demonstrates the continued confidence in Winkler's Citizens on Patrol Program (COPP).
    
Winkler Police Chief Ryan Hunt presented a cheque for $5000 on behalf of the Winkler Chamber of Commerce to Dustin Brown, the Coordinator of COPP in Winkler.
    
The money is an annual grant that comes out of the Police Services budget and flows through the Chamber.

The City of Winkler is reviewing submissions to a Request for Proposals (RFP).

After tenders for the city's wastewater treatment project came back $ 22 million over budget, the project was scrapped and went back to the design phase.

Jumping right back into action looking for alternative ways to make the much-needed expansion go ahead in some form, Winkler Mayor Martin Harder says an idea presented at June's Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) meeting in Regina sparked the idea to seek different ideas through the RFP process.

The perseverance, strength, adaptability, resiliency, commitment and dedication of the individuals they support, and their employees, were highlighted many times during gateway resources' annual meeting this week. Gateway CEO, Kim Nelson, says the pandemic was a challenging time for everyone, but being able to see the strength and the hope in all of their divisions, truly makes Gateway what it is.

Today is graduation day for grade 12 students at Morden Collegiate Institute. (MCI)
    
Valedictorian, Keenan Yaschyshyn describes his graduating class as hard-working and determined. 

The valedictorian for Northlands Parkway Collegiate in Winkler says it hasn't quite sunk in yet that graduation day has arrived.

Valedictorian Janae Zacharias says she's been strolling down memory lane a lot in the last while, pondering many of her personal highlights.

Residents throughout the Pembina and Red River Valleys found themselves dealing with sewer backups this past spring.

In Winkler, Mayor Martin Harder considers the city more fortunate than other municipalities but says there were still way too many sewer backups.
    
Just this past week, Harder found out the reason, in part, for the sewer backups in Winkler. 

He says the flow in the sewer line can't get through the system fast enough so the volume of water is what the sewer capacity can't handle. 

If you have young or mature trees on your property and a windy day passes by, it's highly likely you'll find your yard sprinkled with twigs, a large branch or two, and possibly even a fallen tree.

Known for having a windy climate, Southern Manitoba has lived up to that this spring with a number of wind warnings issued for areas in the region this spring. That's been tough on both young and older trees.

A fire at a residence Sunday morning in Winkler remains under investigation.

Shortly before 8 am, the Winkler Fire Department, Winkler Police and EMS were dispatched to a residence on 4th Street, where a porch was on fire. 

Fire Chief Richard Paetzold says the neighbour saw that the porch to the house was on fire, and proceeded to alert the people inside. The occupants were all able to get out of the home unharmed.
    
No other injuries were sustained as a result.

Perhaps you're a person that's looking to decrease your environmental footprint. Or, like many others, you're looking for ways to save on your gas and energy bills as a way to trim dollars from your overall budget.

Tracy Sterdan is Communications and Customer Experience Manager at Efficiency Manitoba, a new organization dedicated to energy efficiency in the province. It launched two years ago, in place of Manitoba Power Smart.

Perhaps you're a person that's looking to decrease your environmental footprint. Or, like many others, you're looking for ways to save on your gas and energy bills as a way to trim dollars from your overall budget.

Tracy Sterdan is Communications and Customer Experience Manager at Efficiency Manitoba, a new organization dedicated to energy efficiency in the province. It launched two years ago, in place of Manitoba Power Smart.