• Former Flin Flonner Cam Bottrell has been named president of one of Manitoba’s most respected automobile dealerships, the Winnipeg Sun reports. Bottrell is head of Capital Ford Lincoln in Winnipeg, which until its recent sale to a new ownership group was known as Landau Ford Lincoln.
• A man attempted to pull a 14-year-old girl into his pickup truck in Norway House on July 31, RCMP on the northern Manitoba reserve say. Police responded to the attempted abduction around 1 a.m. The girl was walking alone when a lone male in a dark four-door Dodge pickup approached her.
• RCMP are seeking assistance from the public in locating Stanley Lloyd, 66, of Leaf Rapids, who has not been seen since June 27, 2014. Lloyd is described as Caucasian with grey hair and brown eyes. He is 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 150 lbs. He was last seen wearing a dark blue Winnipeg Jets hat, black jeans, a light blue jean jacket and black rubber boots. Lloyd has Alzheimer’s disease and dementia as well as a history of wandering.
• Nickel giant Vale is planning to transfer ownership of its water treatment plant in Thompson to that northern Manitoba municipality. Vale said the goal is to reduce fixed costs and improve its competitiveness. Under the terms of a decades-old agreement, Vale’s predecessor was obligated to construct the municipal infrastructure required for the Thompson townsite.
• Pregnant women in Norway House are increasingly refusing to leave the northern Manitoba reserve to give birth in Winnipeg, CBC reports. For decades most women in the community have been forced to head to the Manitoba capital. But more are now staying at the local hospital and working with the community’s only midwife, Darlene Birch, reports CBC.
• Callinex Mines, a junior miner focused on developing a neuron graphite property near Thompson, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Moriarty as chief financial officer. Her unique background in both geology and accounting is a tremendous benefit and resource to the company,” said Max Porterfield, president and CEO of the Vancouver-based junior miner.
• Construction and renovations will begin this fall on a new primary care centre in Swan River designed to enhance and better co-ordinate health services for people living in the Swan River Valley region. “We are bringing health care closer to home for Manitobans so they can access the services they need when they need them,” said Premier Greg Selinger of the $2.6-million project.
