Curling event boosts community funds for Beef and Barley weekend
Organizers report 125 teams invited from Manitoba and World Tours for a curling festival at Russell arena during Beef and Barley weekend. With a $30 000 prize and over $40 000 in gate and entry goals, sponsors already contribute 17 000 of 19 000 extra funds. Anticipated crowds reach four to five hundred nightly and up to three thousand over the weekend.
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Russell Arena
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Manitoba
Temporary Rossburn hospital closure linked to staff shortages
Healthcare official says patients would be rerouted to Russell, Birtle and Shoal Lake if Rossburn hospital shutters temporarily due to staff shortages. An emergency room function may be affected without local lab and x ray capacity. avoidance of a long term closure is hoped with staff return in January.
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Buternowsky
Rossburn Hospital
Rossburn
Shoal Lake
Birtle
Russell Hospitals
Cigarette theft prompts RCMP alerts in Prairie Mountain area
Police report multiple incidents from April 26 to 30 including the theft of about 60 cartons of cigarettes from a Shoal Lake gas bar and a Great Enter and theft at the Lucky Dollar Store in Stazare. Other events included a false school alarm, a party disbanding at Inglis Beach, vandalism in Millennium Park, and damaged highway signs near Binscarth. The cases remain under investigation.
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Prairie Mountain
Yellowhead
Russell
Shoal Lake
Russell and District Hospital
Binscarth
Investige
Prairie Mountain Rcmp
Inglis Beach
Major Pratt School
Highway Patrol
Russell's
Stazare
Invastinatio
Millennium Park
Jump Rope for Heart raises record funds at Major Pratt
Cassidy Nemez dashes over the ropes as Gord Baskerville and Curtis Zimmerman supervise the Jump Rope for Heart event at Major Pratt. Prairie Mountain RCMP members join in, helping raise 5,062.44 dollars for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, surpassing last year’s total.
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Gord Baskerville
Curtis Zimmerman
Cassidy Nemez
Major Pratt
Prairie Mountain Rcmp
Heart and Stroke Foundation
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