News - Steinbach

The new location for Eastman Immigrant Services and the Steinbach Chamber of Commerce at 284 Reimer Ave. was officially opened here today by Premier Greg Selinger and local dignitaries.

On June 25, 2010, the Steinbach RCMP received a report that approximately 2,500 driving range golf balls had been stolen from the Steinbach Fly In Golf Club.

Steinbach Parks Department staff are working on installing a wrought iron fence around the Memorial Cemetery at the corner of Brandt Street and McKenzie Avenue.

Playground goers will notice some new signs at playgrounds around Steinbach.

Two Winnipeg men, ages 18 and 23, face multiple charges after a collision in which a red 2005 Chev Blazer went off the road into a ditch on Highway 311, 1/2 a kilometre east of Highway 59.

Despite the excessive amount of rain Steinbach has received this summer, Ernie Klassen, Steinbach’s Community Gardening Coordinator, says the community gardeners remain optimistic and are making the best of it.

The David Iftody Memorial Scholarship has been formally presented to this year’s recipients, Keanan Byggdin of Niverville and Mathieu Durand of Ste. Anne.

The Council of the City of Steinbach, under the authority of the Planning Act, will hold a Public Meeting on July 20, 2010, at the Council Chambers, at which time and place the Council will receive representations and objections, if any, from any persons who wish to make same in respect of Rezoning By-law 1882 being a By-law to regulate the development and use of land within The City of Steinbach.

Public notice is hereby given that the City of Steinbach intends to conduct adult mosquito control (Ground-based ultra low volume spraying) because of the high numbers of mosquitoes found in Steinbach.

Steinbach MLA, Kelvin Goertzen, is one of 17 Progressive Conservatives from across the province who has filed nomination papers with Elections Manitoba in order to run under the Party’s banner in the provincial election in October 2011.