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Updated Saturday, June 18th at 8:20 a.m. - We’re still on track for what’s looking to be a very hot and humid weekend, with a good chance of setting new records on Sunday.

Environment Canada has issued Heat Warnings for essentially all of Southern Manitoba.

There has been some shifting of a pair of leadership roles within the Western School Division (WSD).

The Division announced Thursday that Adam Adamson has been hired as Transportation Supervisor. 

The Western School Division has filled the position of Vice-Principal at Maple Leaf School for the 2022/2023 school year. Carla Wiebe has been hired on an interim basis to fill the role.
    
Wiebe has been a Resource Teacher at Maple Leaf School for the past 3 years. Prior to that, she worked for Garden Valley School Division for 10 years and then spent 3 years teaching in Kuwait. She has taught in early years, middle years and high school, and has spent the last 6 years working in Resource. 

Several waves of showers and thunderstorms rolled through the Pembina and Red River Valleys in the early morning and afternoon hours of Tuesday, and in some cases, significant rainfall occurred in a short period of time.

Over the course of two days last week, police seized over 25 grams, or the equivalent of 250 doses, of Crystal Methamphetamine from within Morden. 

The first seizure happened on Friday at around 9:30 a.m. when members of the Morden Police Service were called to a local business regarding an assault. Police attended and located the suspect, subsequently placing him under arrest. During a search, the suspect was found to be in possession of almost three grams of  methamphetamine. 

The Manitoba Hydrologic Forecast Centre has issued an overland flood watch from the evening of June 13th to the morning of June 15th for an area covering Central, Southern, and Southwestern Manitoba ahead of a potentially rainy stretch the next couple of days.

Weather forecasts indicate increased potential for thunderstorms which could bring a significant amount of high intensity rain in a short period of time.

Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) is looking into the circumstances that led to a man sustaining a broken wrist after Winkler police attempted to pull him over Wednesday, June 8th.

According to Winkler Police Service, officers observed a dirt bike being driven on Northlands Parkway around 6 p.m. that evening, and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, however the driver did not stop, fled, and was ejected off the bike when it hit a concrete curb.

We’re starting the week hot and humid, with highs Monday in the upper 20s, and it feeling like 30 or more. 

A 17-year-old driver will need to pay some hefty fines for speeding, and will also face a licence review with Manitoba Public Insurance.
     
While travelling back from Plum Coulee on Wednesday, officers with the Altona Police Service (APS) noticed an oncoming car that appeared to be driving at a remarkably high rate of speed for the roadway. The marked police vehicle’s radar depicted a consistent reading of 193 km/h despite the highway having a posted maximum speed limit of 100 km/h.
    

Not only did much of Southern Manitoba experience yet another deluge of rainfall Monday and Tuesday, many areas experienced severe winds gusts which led to power outages, downed trees and hydro lines, and in some cases, building damage.