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Alcohol transport limits cut back on bootlegging: RCMP

RCMP reports no overdoses, deaths or injuries to date

It will take more than vandalism to shake the Lord’s Bounty Food Bank. Five months after quietly opening the doors of their new home base on Hiawatha Avenue, the Lord’s Bounty Food Bank held their grand opening on May 4.

A student group at École McIsaac School has come together to help save the dolphins. The Grade 7 and 8 students have raised almost $400 for the Dolphin Project, a group that campaigns against the capture and slaughter of dolphins and other sea life.

It has acquired a number of nicknames – Snow Mountain, Mount Slushmore, “that pile of stuff.” The metres-high stack of snow, salt and road grit near the Wallace Avenue bridge has garnered a lot of attention.

Creighton’s water supply is still safe, despite a recent uptick in people reporting brown water.

Creighton RCMP answered the call 88 times in April, responding to a series of offences. One sexual assault was reported to Creighton RCMP last month, according to the detachment’s monthly report. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Manitobans will soon be paying more for hydro. Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) approved an average revenue increase of 3.6 per cent to be applied to Hydro customers’ rates as of June 1.

The shutdown of the Vale smelter and refinery in Thompson moved closer last week. A total of 169 hourly employees with the smelter and refinery have received layoff notices as of April 25.

Two suspects remain on the loose after an assault in Denare Beach in March. Trenton Laliberty, 21, of Denare Beach and an unidentified 15-year-old male have evaded RCMP since the incident on March 17.