Business View Magazine | July 2019

288 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 www.glacialagg.ca (204) 777-2233 • info@glacialagg.ca Concrete Aggregates Asphalt Aggregates Limestone Fill Sand Pit Run Specialty Products And More www.geeteeholdings.com 204-444-3069 | 61035 Highway 207 | info@geetee.ca Springfield, Manitoba COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 135K - 160K PER ACRE GEE TEE WAY CORBETT ROAD JOHN HIEBERT DRIVE SOLD SOLD SOLD 5.14 ACRES 3.01 ACRES 1.7 ACRES 1.84 ACRES 1.72 ACRES 3.25 ACRES 3.17 ACRES 2.29 ACRES 2.24 ACRES 2.24 ACRES to assist people to age in place with secondary suites, so they don’t have to leave the RM because of restrictions with our aging demographic. Having the ability to create a secondary suite in your home allows families to stay together and seniors to age in the municipality where they’ve lived for so long. We have three doctors’ offices in Oakbank, and we’re very near to Winnipeg and the city of Selkirk, so there are four hospitals within close driving distance. In our own municipality, we have an Age and Opportunity service for seniors; a bus that takes them to appointments, shopping trips, and group activities. It’s funded by the RM with support from our regional health authority.” The Cedar Lake Corridor is a master transportation plan created by a consulting firm as part of Manitoba’s capital budget plan. The provincial initiative is about two decades out, but when it comes to fruition, will create another corridor into the RM and connect with Highway #1 to create better traffic flow into Winnipeg and out to Springfield. In other infrastructure news, Fell admits, “We’re looking at piped water in town, but that has to go out to the public and if we have consensus with the residents it will go forward. We just received Provincial & Federal grants last year to expand the Dugald water plant, which feeds Dugald and Oakbank, going from the south to the north. We are also looking for another water source east of Dugald. We’ve almost completed the $2 million expansion project that will add more water capacity for people on piped water in the towns of Oakbank, Dugald, and Anola. They are the only ones in our community that have piped water. The rest are on wells.” The mighty Red River doesn’t flow through the RM, but the Red River Floodway, a ring around the city of Winnipeg comes right through Springfield and contains all the runoff and flood waters during the spring season, when Winnipeg occasionally experiences high water issues. From a recreation aspect, Springfield borders on very popular Birds Hill Provincial Park and the RM’s northern region has one of the largest equestrian populations in Canada. Fell says that council is also planning to build a Springfield Recreation Center, just outside of Oakbank. “It will be a multi-