Barry Lamb

Riding Mountain MLA Greg Nesbitt invites Manitobans to submit their designs for the new Manitoba parks specialty license plate.

“Manitoba is home to some of Canada’s most beautiful parks and many incredible artists,” said Nesbitt. “This is an exciting first step in a collaborative process to create what will surely be Canada’s most beautiful license plate.”

Riding Mountain MLA Greg Nesbitt invites Manitobans to submit their designs for the new Manitoba parks specialty license plate. 

“Manitoba is home to some of Canada’s most beautiful parks and many incredible artists,” said Nesbitt. “This is an exciting first step in a collaborative process to create what will surely be Canada’s most beautiful license plate.” 

The annual Canada Day concert in Killarney was moved to July 6th this year but the change of date didn’t keep music fans away.

The weather co-operated and organizers were thrilled to see a large crowd at the fairgrounds on Saturday.

The Killarney Community Events Committee hosts the concert each year. Member Bart Sutherland said they weren’t sure what to expect. “It ended up better than we had expected. I’m sure we’re close to either side of 3,000 people and that’s just 200 fewer than last year when the concert was on July 1st.”

Turtle Mountain Bible Camp (TMBC) is located between Boissevain and Deloraine, south of Highway #3 and the summer camping season is underway but TMBC could use more workers. 

This year the camp expected to play host to more than 450 youth and adults. Team training kicked off July 2nd and Co-director Chelsie Zylstra says things looks pretty good for the summer months. “We had 30 to 40 people at our training program and most of those were cabin leaders and we’re really excited how many people came out for this. We haven’t had a training session this big for many years.” 

The federal carbon tax is set to increase April 1st, and, by the end of this week, a farm delegation will be in Ottawa lobbying for an act to give farmers some tax exemptions. 

Jake Ayre is vice-president of the Keystone Agriculture Producers, and he says it’s important they get legislation passed.

“There was Bill C-234 that was passed in the house and KAP spent a lot of time lobbying for that exemption because it dealt with livestock barns using natural gas or propane as well grain drying. It went to the senate and was unfortunately defeated.” 

The federal carbon tax is set to increase April 1st, and, by the end of February, a farm delegation will be in Ottawa lobbying for an act to give farmers some tax exemptions. 

Jake Ayre is vice-president of the Keystone Agriculture Producers, and he says it’s important they get legislation passed.

“There was Bill C-234 that was passed in the house and KAP spent a lot of time lobbying for that exemption because it dealt with livestock barns using natural gas or propane as well grain drying. It went to the senate and was unfortunately defeated.” 

This winter has been far from normal with little snowfall and above average temperatures. 

Jake Ayre farms at Minto and is vice president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers. He says it has been a different type of winter, no question.

“It has been a weird winter across the province with lots of areas with little to no snow just before Christmas. Some snow did fall but then into the new year we had the warm weather and this freeze-thaw cycle.” 

Assiniboine Community College plans to turn sod on their $118 million Prairie Innovation Centre next year.

ACC over the past few years has been working to raise private donations for the project. The most recent support was $100,000 from Simplot Canada Ltd.

Motorists should think twice before heading down roads that have been closed due to weather conditions, construction or other factors.

The Manitoba government's amendments to the Highway Traffic Act under Bill 46 starts July 1st and creates new offences for driving on a road that has been closed to traffic.

Motorists should think twice before heading down roads that have been closed due to weather conditions, construction or other factors.

The Manitoba government's amendments to the Highway Traffic Act under Bill 46 starts July 1st and creates new offences for driving on a road that has been closed to traffic.