Candace Derksen

What you see and read online isn't always true. That's the message once again from the Altona Police Service as officers dealt with yet another scam report. 

Four people from the Pembina Valley were involved in a fatal two-vehicle crash in southwest Manitoba late Monday afternoon.
    
According to RCMP, an SUV travelling west on PR 257 in the R.M. of Wallace-Woodworth stopped at a stop sign as it approached Highway 83. It then proceeded across the highway when it was struck on the rear driver's side by a truck.
    

As Mother Teresa once said, 'Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless'.

Often, the first person someone in crisis speaks to during a critical incident is a police officer, and that's where our Regional Crisis Negotiation Unit (RCNU) comes in.

It was another show of support for our fellow Manitobans, this time during the Montcalm Heritage Festival in St. Joseph this weekend.

Fire fighters from St. Jean and Letellier took off their boots and passed them around during the parade, collecting loose change for the Canadian Red Cross Manitoba Wildfire Relief fund. 

"It's a very serious situation." That from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in an update on the province's wildfire situation Thursday, who says fire fighters from across Manitoba and beyond continue to blazes on several fronts. 

As of Thursday morning, Kinew said there were 16,800 evacuees registered in Manitoba. Many of which have been put up in hotels across Manitoba, occupying about 1,700 rooms. 

He added, it's been great to see people step up and provide donations, volunteer at shelters and even take evacuees into their homes. 

A business owner near Rosengart wants the province to come up with a repair and maintenance plan for a local road he says has been neglected for years.

Jonathan Wiebe says PR 521, which is not paved, has become soft; in particular, a stretch of several hundred feet in such bad shape that he says vehicles are sinking and needing to be towed.

The emergency department at Boundary Trails Health Centre (BTHC) has been noted as the latest measles exposure site in the area.
    
Public health says anyone there on May 22nd from 6 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. is asked to monitor for symptoms until June 13th.

Local fire fighters have suited up and headed up north to help in the wildfire fight near Flin Flon.

From the Pembina Triangle Mutual Aid District are - 3 members and a tanker truck from Morden, 2 members from Plum Coulee and 1 from St. Jean.

We are being encouraged to practice safe driving habits at all times.
    
The message comes after Altona police officers responded to two incidents on Saturday where they say drivers failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. In fact, both incidents happened at the same location, at the intersection of 2nd St. NE and Centre Ave. East, right in front of the police station. Exacerbating things even further, police say the second incident happened about two minutes after officers cleared the intersection of the first.

The Municipality of Rhineland is moving ahead with another of its strategic priorities - developing a master water drainage plan.
    
Council has hired Northern Plains Drainage Systems on a one-year trial to conduct a survey of all local ditches.

"This is kind of a new thing for us," explained Reeve Don Wiebe. "We've had some information; other municipalities have done some work in this area."