News releases issued by the City of Selkirk
Selkirk Coun. Kelly Cook has been re-elected District Director for the Interlake Region at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities district meetings this month. The meetings were held virtually. Each of the AMM’s seven districts elects two directors. Cook and Reeve Cheryl Smith from the RM of St. Laurent were nominated for the Interlake Region. Both…
Just because current Public Health Orders restrict citizens to gather in groups, doesn’t mean the city is going to give up on providing one heck of a Canada Day Concert. The city will be streaming their Waterfront Concert Series all summer long on Facebook Live, including their Virtual Canada Day Concert Celebration on July 1…
Denis Fitzpatrick remembers when the first transit buses hit the streets of Selkirk in 2011 and the naysayers were already writing the new service’s obituary. “Initially there were a lot of detractors saying that nobody would ever ride our buses,” the chair of the Selkirk Transit Authority (STA) recalled. “There was a lot of, ‘oh,…
Sarah Lawrynuik’s February article for the Winnipeg Free Press, ‘When boring is a thrill’, shone a light on Selkirk’s dedication to integrating climate change into day to day operations and it was her first real contact with the city’s management and staff. As the paper’s climate change reporter, she was already familiar with Selkirk’s efforts…
It’s hard to believe but five years have flown by and it is census time once again. Though right now it seems like the only thing that’s happened in the last five years is the COVID-19 global pandemic, but in reality, plenty has occurred since the last census in 2016, including population growth in different…