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GREGMICHIE.COM | 204.336.2800 294 Evelyn Street $699,900 7 Sunrise Bay $849,900 5 Rose Meadows Parkway $929,900 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 VOLUME 11 EDITION 40 SERVING SELKIRK, LOCKPORT, ST. ANDREWS, ST. CLEMENTS, WEST ST. PAUL, CLANDEBOYE, PETERSFIELD, LIBAU, GARSON, DUNNOTTAR & TYNDALL Literacy in motion LUNCH • DINNER • SNACKTIME 268 Main St, SELKIRK 204.482.7922 3317 Portage Ave OR 2450 Main St, WINNIPEG 204.338.7922 SERVING: Selkirk • Middlechurch • West St. Paul • RECORD PHOTO SUBMITTED Frankspizza.ca Skylar Finnigan, Jaycee Gagnon and Orion Finnigan participating in the fi rst StoryWalk at the Petersfi eld Farmers [email protected] Market. For more photos see page 5. > everything you need to know in your locally owned and operated community newspaper MASKS IN-STOCK! 2 The Selkirk Record Thursday, October 8, 2020 Visit us at HARRYSFOODS.CAWRYLHZRXUHQWLUHÀ\HU¿OOHGZLWK¶VRIRWKHULWHPVRQVDOHHDFKZHHN With a $50 minimumminimum grocery purchase. purchase. 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The mayor said despite his wish to “Generally, it was a bit of a learn- be seen as a separate entity from Win- ing curve but not a huge pushback,” nipeg and surrounding communities, said Terry Gall, associate manager of Selkirk has obliged to following nec- the grocery store. “The odd customer essary health protocols put in place by didn’t like it or walked away but it was the city and individual businesses. mostly accepted.” “90% of the businesses already had After an infl ux of positive COV- implemented mandatory masks in RECORD PHOTOS BY NICOLE BUFFIE ID-19 cases in Winnipeg, the province their in their buildings,” he said. “We No Frills in Selkirk has had a mandatory mask policy in place since Aug. moved to establish the area as level or- have gone above and beyond pro- 29 with little push back from shoppers. ange, or ‘restricted’ on the provincial tecting our community and I think it pandemic response system. With the shows in the numbers.” announcement came smaller gather- While most businesses asked cus- ing sizes both indoors and outdoors, tomers to wear masks while shopping and the mandatory use of masks in all and it came with no fuss, not everyone public places. was compliant of the request. Gall said since his store implement- An incident came out of Selkirk’s ed the policy for all employees and Walmart on Sept. 23 when RCMP re- shoppers, he’s had few customers ported arresting a man for assault and refusing to don a face covering while uttering threats. shopping. Mounties say a 52-year-old man en- “It’s almost total compliance,” he tered the store not wearing a mask. said. Gall noted there was only one After another customer repeatedly customer during the fi rst week of the asked the man to don a face covering, new public health orders that refused the individual allegedly pushed him to wear a mask. and threatened him. An employee As the public health regulation nearby saw the commotion and called states, a face covering must be worn RCMP to the scene. The male was ar- while inside any public-facing busi- rested and detained in custody and is ness including grocery stores, malls facing charges of assault and uttering and anything accessible to the general threats. He is scheduled to appear in population. Selkirk court on Dec. 11. Mayor Larry Johannson said while Walmart stores across the country A man was charged with assault and uttering threats after refusing he agrees with the mandates and will implemented a mandatory mask pol- to wear a mask in the Selkirk Walmart in September, one week before ensure everyone follows the rules set icy in their retail stores in August. A public health orders mandated the use of masks in all public indoor out by public health offi cials in order statement by the company read that spaces. to slow the spread of the virus, he isn’t face-coverings must be worn by cus- over 400 locations beginning Aug. 12, mandate in place or not. convinced the city should be lumped tomers while shopping in one of their regardless if there was a public health Thankful Table 439 MAIN ST., SELKIRKRK HOURSURSRS MON - WED 9-8 THURS & FRI 9-9 North of Manitoba Ave. SAT 9-6 SUN 12-5 BiG DOLLAR 4 The Selkirk Record Thursday, October 8, 2020 Making organ transplants available to more people By Katelyn Boulanger Kyle Schmidt, an East St. Paul fi re- fi ghter who recently was told that he needed a kidney transplant, is advo- cating for a change in the way trans- plants are managed in the Province of Manitoba. Currently, people who would like to be organ donors need to opt-in by submitting their information to the province but Schmidt would like to see that changed so that instead of opting-in residents would opt-out if they didn’t want their organs donated after they have passed away. “I’m 37 years old. I’m a new parent with a 9-month old baby. I was diag- nosed with end-stage renal disease in August of this year. We always as- sumed that a transplant was coming but it kind of came faster than we an- ticipated. At that time we were look- ing for a list of potential donors,” said Schmidt. Upon creating a group called Kidney on Fire on Facebook, which let people know about his own need, Schmidt had an outpouring of support and po- tential donors who called to be tested need organ transplants who haven’t RECORD PHOTO SUBMITTED to see if they were a match. had the same experience fi nding an Kyle Schmidt and his Kidney on Fire team recently raised almost $2000 His journey, however, caused organ donor as he has. at a fundraiser for the Kidney Foundation Of Canada on Sept. 27 in Birds Schmidt to realize how many people Schmidt and his list of potential do- Hill Park. nors are currently being tested and ing their driver’s license but has since he is hoping to make it to transplant changed to an online signup. without having to go on dialysis. Selkirk resident Cathy Krawchuk re- Stay Smooth “Manitoba has the longest trans- cently gave her kidney to Judy Scott plant wait times in Canada, partly the two having met through speed THIS WINTER because we have a lot of people on skating as both have daughters who dialysis per capita, Manitoba has over participate in the sport. She also be- 1800 people on dialysis only about lieves that an opt-out system is the at CANADIAN TIRE Selkirk 400 people are eligible for transplant,” way to go in Manitoba. said Schmidt. “That one person who’s waiting for We are a full service repair facility. On behalf of those 400 people in a liver transplant, a kidney transplant, Call today for an appointment. need of kidney transplants and many whatever it may be, they have family. more in need of other organs that It’s not just them who are waiting for We can get your vechile in and out quickly would benefi t from an improved it, it’s also their family that are waiting and effi ciently, often the same day.