Roblin RCMP Detachment is without clerical staff for the foreseeable future.

As a result, the Roblin Detachment office hours will be greatly reduced. We will have alternative clerical staff in the Roblin office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

More in this week’s RCMP report.

In honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day, many organizations and schools are doing their part to educate and create awareness around Every Child Matters and residential school survivors.

In Grandview, a beautiful gift honouring residential school survivors has been given to the Grandview School, to fly in honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day and to create awareness.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Opaskwayak Cree Nation is home to many talented people who have a variety of gifts to share. When it comes to music, everyone knows there’s a star in the community and he’s been a part of the music scene for quite some time. Ahab Constant started playing music at a very young age and grew up around several musical influences within his own family.
“I started playing the fiddle when I was very young,” said Constant. “We were living in Barrows at the time. My uncles were living around there too and they had a couple of instruments, a guitar and a fiddle. I was more interested in the fiddle than the guitar.
“One day I went to visit my uncle and he told me to just play the guitar, and not to touch the fiddle that was hanging on the wall. While I was there, he was getting ready to go somewhere to see some friends, and told me once again to not touch the fiddle on the wall. I started playing the guitar and he left. I kept looking out the window, while playing the guitar, to see how far away he was. Finally, he was out of sight, and then I picked up the fiddle.

Many of us don’t realize the power and healing that can come by sharing lived experiences and one’s culture with others. This has been a powerful journey that Steven Nipin-Muskwa has been on and discovered through the course of his life. He didn’t grow up immersed in his Indigenous culture, but he has taken the time to rectify that and share it with others.
“My family is originally from The Pas and my mother was a Sixties Scoop survivor,” said Nipin-Muskwa. “She was raised in the U.S. by a non-Indigenous family. I grew up knowing nothing about my Indigenous culture and about 15 years ago I went to my first pow wow with some friends. I didn’t know anything about where I was from or my family, but watching the pow wow, I was drawn into it and it was amazing.

Canadian social media sensation, Gurdeep Pandher, has caught the eye of many followers online with his Bhangra dancing and spreading messages of joy, hope and positivity. Pandher makes videos of his Bhangra dancing and shares them on his social media. This all started as a result of the pandemic and as a means of lifting people’s spirits up.
“I live in the Yukon territory, in an off the grid cabin in the wilderness,” said Pandher. “When the pandemic started, I became passionate about Bhangra dancing and sending out positive and joy during that time when it was very much needed. I started making a video each day, dancing in the wilderness around my cabin and posting it on social media as sending messages of joy, hope and positivity across the country and beyond.

The Town of The Pas is thrilled to warmly welcome the new Sam Waller Museum Director, Jaxon Baker! Jaxon possesses a Master in Museology from the Université de Montréal and a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in History from the University of New Brunswick. He has also completed Fleming College's Museum Management and Curatorship Program.

Ever wonder what the Dauphin Herald online papers look like? Ever thought about switching from your paper copy to an online edition? 

Now is your chance to check it out and see how you like it with the Dauphin Herald's Total Market Coverage for September 2023.

Read below, enjoy!

On Sept. 19, community members gathered in support of Disability Matters Vote. The public awareness campaign has the goal of ensuring all Manitobans with disabilities can participate in election activities and those who are eligible to vote can do so, to promote priority attention for disability issues in the provincial election, and to support Manitobans in making informed voting decisions.

The Swan Valley Junior A Stampeders kicked off their 25th Season last week with their season home opener happening on Saturday (Sept. 23). Rebounding from a loss in Dauphin the night before, the Stampeders picked up a 6-3 win in front of an enthusiastic crowd...

The Dauphin Kings dominated their home and season opener, Friday night, against the Swan Valley Stampeders.

It took the Kings more than eight minutes to find the net, but when they did, they opened the flood gates, building a 4-0 lead after the first period and extending it to 6-1 after 40 minutes.

Three players - Logan Walker, rookie Gavin Nemis and Blake Boudreau - each scored twice in the victory, while Gabriel Bugeaud had a single before he was tossed on a checking from behind minor in the second frame.

Truman Boettiger had the lone goal for the Stampeders.

Cole Sheffield was solid in goal for the Kings, making 24 saves, while his Swan Valley counterpart Elias Giaccan-Dimitriou stopped 33 shots in the loss.

Kings head coach and general manager Doug Hedley felt there were a lot of good things for the Kings to build on coming out of the season opener.

“If you start off in the D zone, our D unit was controlling the game. A lot of good reverse plays, a lot of good quick ups, up through the dots, one touch passes and good first passes,” he said. “We had so many good exits tonight that were out of our zone and then three passes later we were going in for a shot on net.”

That, Hedley added, was the result of good puck support, including support through the middle, and players putting pucks up along the boards and making smart plays.

“I liked our speed. I liked our attack in the middle lane. We started right off the hop with Carter (Zalischuk) driving the middle lane and making some plays. It’s contagious,” he said. “And when young guys like Nemis and (Rhett) Perrin work like that and catch guys from behind, it makes your D unit’s job so much easier.”

All four lines, Hedley said, played well. Bugeaud played well before he was ejected, and Josh Schmidt worked hard and never quit.

“We’ve got a bunch of guys like that this year. The experience is one thing. But obviously, it’s the first game of the year, so you take it with a grain of salt. But at the same time, I really liked the effort, I liked the speed, the compete. Just being teammates together and working hard,” he said.

The big thing now is to continue to play strong no matter who the opponent is.

The next challenge came Sunday night in The Pas, when the Kings faced the OCN Blizzard.

Naaman Hofer’s goal 4:21 into the third period stood up as the winner in a 2-1 Kings victory.

Boudreau staked Dauphin to a 1-0 lead on a penalty shot just 43 second into the second period.

Mathew Langdon made it a one-goal game a little more than three minutes after Hofer’s goal.

Sheffield stopped 20 shots in the win, while Loic Morin had 24 saves for the Blizzard.

With 28 players still in camp, more cuts were made early this week.

“We’ll be down to 25 by Monday or Tuesday,” Hedley said.

Friday, the Kings face the Portage Terriers in Portage at 7:30 p.m., before hosting the Selkirk Steelers, Sunday at 4 p.m. Prior to that, the Kings wil continue to focus on their systems including special teams.

“We’re ahead of last year, because our exhibition games were spread out. So we started teaching earlier and we started implanting our systems a little bit and our forecheck and neutral zone and D zone. We’ll just reinforce that during through the week and try to get our special teams going,” Hedley said.