News releases issued by the City of Selkirk
John Buffie has been named Deputy Mayor for the second time after a Council vote on Dec. 14. Councillor Darlene Swiderski previously held the position from November 2018 to December 2020. Whereas most municipal councils in Manitoba have the mayor or reeve appoint a council member as the deputy mayor for the full term of…
Pictured: Headworks area where the wastewater enters the plant Among the many positives that Selkirk’s new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) brings to the city is that it was built smart and the city held strong to the belief that bigger isn’t necessarily better. The $30-plus million plant is state-of-the-art and will treat effluent to a…
To build great things, you have to start from the ground up. But to build toward a more climate resilient city, the construction is starting below the ground. The city will be separating the combined sewers, a critical objective of the city’s award-winning Climate Change Adaption Strategy (CCAS), down Sophia Street between Centennial and Selkirk…
There’s no other way to paint 2020, it was a year that was coloured by COVID-19 at every turn since we first heard whispers of the virus in February – a month later the NHL season was cancelled and suddenly a far away concern was on our doorsteps. We spent the spring under strict measures…
When the City of Selkirk broke ground for its new wastewater treatment plant in 2018, council of the day was certain of a couple things – first, it was making a decision that would impact citizens, and the environment, for decades to come, and second, they had better get it right. We’re only a little…