Pritchard Farm Trails, as well as numerous parks and playgrounds. A habitat rehabilitation project at Birds Hill, Manitoba transformed a depleted gravel pit into Silver Springs Park, with trails, a lake, and homes built along part of its perimeter. The pit dates to the late 19th century, when the Canadian Pacific Railway needed gravel ballast for its rail lines. The deposit was later worked to serve Winnipeg's needs for aggregate. Over the years, more than 20 million tonnes of gravel were removed from the site. The depleted quarry was graded and landscaped with native grasses and more than 1,200 trees and shrubs. Geese, ducks, terns, gulls, American white pelicans, songbirds, foxes, rabbits, western painted turtles, muskrats and deer are frequently observed. In 2020 Silver Springs Park was renamed Swistun Family Heritage Park to recognize the prominent local family that was responsible for the rehabilitation of the quarry as a park, its landscaping, and establishment of ponds. In 1993, the Province of Manitoba profiled the project as what can be achieved with mining rehabilitation, and brought in a 10 cent charge for every ton extracted out of a mine or gravel pit. In 2021 this park was nationally recognized with the Butchart Gardens Land Reclamation Award by the Canadian Communities in Bloom. Policing East St. Paul made national news in 2005 with the poor handling by East St.Paul Police and subsequent inquiry into death of Crystal Taman by an off duty Winnipeg police officer Derek Harvey-Zenk. It was believed that the police officer was driving drunk when his truck rear-ended Taman, who was stopped at a red light. The East St. Paul police officers at the scene knew the offender, did not gather adequate evidence, and the prosecutor was forced to plea bargain a relatively light sentence. As a result of the evidence presented at the Taman Inquiry, the province disbanded the East St. Paul police force, replacing them with Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. This change from a local police force to RCMP resulted in several changes, most notable is the cost of policing. Prior to the changeover, the RM of East St. Paul paid for its local police force; however since the change to RCMP in January 2009, the costs of policing has been paid for by the provincial and federal governments. The RCMP police detachment remains in the original location as the East St. Paul police force The