Schools throughout Manitoba received a portion of a $10,000 grant for special music projects and events in April as part of Celebrating Music in Manitoba Schools Month.
The non-profit Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) helicopter ambulance and expert medical crew will once again be providing emergency medical response during the expected spring flooding event.
Manitoba will adopt the 2010 national building codes, which include improved safety and energy-efficiency requirements plus universal design elements that will ensure improved accessibility.
Premier Greg Selinger announced the basic Education Property Tax Credit will increase to $700 in 2011 from the current $650, giving Manitobans more tax savings.
Manitoba Communities in Bloom (CIB), the organization that helps communities with environmental awareness, improvement programs and heritage preservation is receiving $75,000 over three years to continue its non-profit work throughout rural Manitoba.
The Office of the Fire Commissioner has added helicopter aerial rescue to its already broad emergency response capabilities and will have a trained and certified crew on standby 24 hours a day throughout the spring flood.
Campers will be able to book provincial park campsites online starting 7:30 a.m. on Monday, April 4 when Manitoba’s Parks Reservation Service opens for another great camping season.
Steinbach residents will soon have access to the next generation of high definition television and the fastest broadband connections available as MTS deploys its fibre-to-the-home network (FiON) in Steinbach over the coming months.
On March 29, 2011, at about 1:30am, St. Pierre RCMP as well as local Fire and EMS were dispatched to the scene of a fire at a commercial property on Main Street in Niverville, Manitoba.
The annual economic survey sent to area businesses by Steinbach MLA, Kelvin Goertzen, shows that local businesses continue to have confidence in the regional economy but are less confident in the overall provincial economy or the performance of the NDP Premier.
