Classes began today (Sept. 8) at the HHCA – a ministry of the Roblin Evangelical Mission Church – with 36 students in grades 1 to 9 enroled in the country’s first “University Model” school.
The University Model is a five-day Christ-centered academic program with students spending two to three days in a central classroom and two to three days in their “satellite classroom” at home.
Read the rest of the story in this week’s Review.

Students and staff will be returning to school soon. This means that children will be out walking to and from school.
Please ensure that you are following all school speed zones as you never know when that ball may pop out with a child chasing after it.
Check out what’s keeping police busy in this week’s RCMP Report.

The Manitoba government announced Monday (Aug. 31) that it was set to re-open the emergency department at Dauphin Regional Health Centre on Labour Day
The temporary emergency department will operate on the main floor of Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC), using temporary power, water and other infrastructure while restoration work continues in other areas of the hospital.
More in this week’s paper.

Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM) has introduced a new public-facing name: Recycle Manitoba.
The new name gives the organization a simpler and more recognizable way to connect with Manitobans while making recycling information easier to find, understand, and use.
Want to know more? Pick up a copy of this week’s issue.

The Manitoba government is bringing forward regulatory changes that would extend the freeze on Agricultural Crown Lands (ACL) forage-leases rental rates at $3.66 per animal unit months into the 2027 growing season.
The move is intended to keep leases affordable for livestock producers.
Details in this week’s Review.

The council of the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West has a passed a resolution allowing GIP (Russell Redi-Mix) to go ahead with plans for a gravel pit north of the Asessippi Ski Resort and south of its current quarry alongPTH #83.
In a recorded vote, the resolution passed four to two with Councillors Wes Anderson and Judy Snitynsky casting the dissenting votes.
More in this week’s paper.

Staff at the Roblin Health Centre gathered Thursday, Aug. 27 to bid a fond farewell to one of their own.
After 20 years as an RN and 17 years as a Nurse practitioner, Sheila Kringle has called it a career.
Details in this week’s issue.

Additional charges have been laid against former MP Inky Mark of Dauphin as part of a months-long investigation into firearms trafficking.
Mark, 78, was re-arrested on Aug. 12 and charged with 26 new offences, bringing the overall number of charges to 38.
Read the rest of the story in this week’s Review.

Winnipeg artist and local historian Michael P. Yakimishyn’s painting entitled “Hillside, My Sister and I,” a 30” × 24” acrylic on canvas, was painted from a photograph taken by his mother, Ann Yakimishyn, during the summer of 1946.
The photograph captures his sister, Alice, and the artists standing in front of their parents’ store, the famous Hillside Store.
Read all about this unique piece of local history in this issue.

Days after the collapse of trade talks with the Trump administration, the Liberal government rolled out $7.5 billion to help workers and businesses weather the new 50 per cent tariffs being imposed on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods by the U.S. president.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and other ministers announced on Tuesday that alongside the supports for businesses, starting Sept. 8 the government will match the U.S. levies dollar for dollar by tariffing $27.6 billion of comparable U.S. goods.
More in this week’s Review.