Water Stewardship Minister, Christine Melnick was one of many who rolled up their sleeves at the fire station in St. Andrews yesterday. She and dozens of others helped fill sandbags from a special machine that creates 500 of them every hour. Melnick says people are coming from all over southern Manitoba to help out…….and, it’s great to see.
Meantime, the below zero temperatures have been a mixed blessing on the flood front. Obviously, the cooler things are, the slower they melt. But, the cool is also freezing drainage systems and stopping ice movement on the rivers.
Weary residents down in Fargo, gathered at churches for Sunday prayers, counting their blessings the Red has finally stopped rising. But, city officials say they can’t relax until the river drops from 13 meters to below 12 meters….and, that could be 4 or 5 days away.
The Canadian numbers have been crunched, and, it seems Saturday night’s “Earth Hour” was an energy saving success. People in Ontario were the country’s biggest power savers, with a 6 per cent drop in usage. B.C., Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia all reported one per cent drops. But, here in Manitoba….hard to believe but we actually USED MORE POWER than usual during that hour.
And as you probably saw all over the t.v. this weekend….Madonna is at a courthouse in Malawi today, where she’s trying to adopt another child. A welfare official says the pop star hopes to adopt a 4 year old girl whose mother died.
