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Showers are predicted in southwest Manitoba on Sunday and southeast Manitoba on Monday. Rainfall amounts of about 0.4 inch (10 millimetres) are expected.

Showers are expected on Easter Sunday and Monday. Fast melting is expected this weekend. Snow and ice on fields in the Red River Valley should be melted this weekend and most of the snow in western Manitoba should also be melted by Monday.

On Sunday, May 3rd, residents from the South Eastman region will participate in the 7th annual Hike for Hospice Palliative Care, hosted by South Eastman Health/Santé Sud-Est Inc. Palliative Care Team and The Health Corner, St. Pierre Jolys.

Healthy Living Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross and Education, Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson today unveiled a new youth-helping-youth healthy-living project for 20 Manitoba schools, part of a $310,000 provincial commitment for three new initiatives to ensure more Manitobans have the opportunity to build healthy living into their daily lives.

There is a chance of showers on Easter Sunday, otherwise no precipitation is expected in the next five days. Fast melting is expected this weekend.

The province is building on Manitoba’s first-of-its-kind physician assistant master’s program with legislation that would make physician assistant students associate members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, ensuring the students are governed by the college’s high standards for medical professionalism, Health Minister Theresa Oswald said.

The provincial government is investing more than $5 million to strengthen, workforce skills and work placement initiatives for unemployed Manitobans, Competitiveness, Training and Trade Minister Andrew Swan announced.

Manitoba Water Stewardship advises the Red River Floodway gates will be raised for the first time in 2009 at approximately 1 p.m. this afternoon.

Families and workers in Provencher will soon see faster improvements to roads and other local infrastructure thanks to the Conservative government’s doubling of Gas Tax transfers to municipalities, said Conservative MP for Provencher, Vic Toews.

Steinbach MLA Kelvin Goertzen who, along with members of the public and other Progressive Conservative MLA’s, spent weeks in committee last spring fighting a controversial NDP bill that gave political parties $1.25 of taxpayers’ dollars for every vote they received, is pleased with the declaration by the NDP that they will not take the money this year.