News releases issued by the City of Selkirk
The leaves may be showing their fall colours now, but before they turned, a steady flow of rainfall put an emphasis on all things green, effectively turning up the colour volume on the city’s urban canopy. It was a stunning visual reminder of their beauty and it came on the heals of the City of…
Len Bacon regularly partakes in the City of Selkirk’s Walk and Jog program at the Rec Complex, and though the 78-year-old is hesitant to say he goes everyday, when the snow flies and the wind picks up, it often blows Len inside to get his heart pumping. “It’s good exercise and you’re not going to…
At 10 a.m. on Sept. 28, the sirens will sound, the fire trucks will leave the fire hall and what can best be described as a five-alarm situation will ensue. But fear not citizens of Selkirk city, there is no need to panic – it is simply the celebration befitting of the grand opening of…
The City of Selkirk cracked Maclean’s magazine’s Top 100 list of fastest growing communities in Canada, a reality that’s not lost on Mayor Larry Johannson. “It’s nice to see Selkirk on that list, I’m proud of that, but it’s something that the people who live here know without having to see a list,” Johannson said.…
The electoral landscape is about to change in the City of Selkirk in a very obvious way – candidate signs will no longer be allowed to be placed on boulevards and left there for the duration of the campaign. Selkirk Chief Administrative Officer Duane Nicol said previous councils looked at both by-laws and interpreted the…