An arrest has been made in the tanning bed case. 29 year old Russell Bruce Cassels is charged with break and enter, mischief, voyeurism and committing forcible confinement. Cassels had scaled a wall at a downtown tanning salon last month, and climbed into a room where a woman was tanning. Fortunately she wasn’t hurt, but cops say she was emotionally traumatized.
A German family considering emigrating to Manitoba, has won a big lottery prize while visiting the province. Nicole Braun was in Rossburn last week exploring the area and looking at houses. Before she left town, she bought a 100 dollar lottery ticket that gave her a chance of winning a hundred grand. Well guess what? She won. The lottery by the way was a community fund raising event.
2 group home employees who were fired for abandoning 2 mentally disabled women in a van last spring, while they went to a movie, will not face any criminal charges. A spokesperson for Manitoba Justice says right now, they’re not in a position to comment as to why.
Our weather may flat out frigid….but it’s nothing like what’s happening out east today. The U.S. National Weather Service is calling a storm that’s hitting more than a dozen states, and southern Ontario, a monster. The system has drenched California with heavy rains…and, it even dumped 50 centimeters of snow on Flagstaff, Arizona yesterday….breaking every kind of record there is.
The World Health Organization is calling on governments around the world to take stronger action against smoking. In a new report, the agency says tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, while second hand smoke kills another 600 thousand.
Holy cow….can you imagine ! A stormy day in Houston, Texas yesterday set the scene for a big rescue, as 2 window workers dangled on the side of an office tower. That’s after their work scaffold broke free yesterday afternoon about 10 storeys up. The men and their scaffold swayed for more than 30 minutes in almost 100 kilometer an hour winds, breaking several windows, until a fire rescue team could reach them.
The family of James Delorey is saying thanks to everyone who searched for, found and tried to save the Cape Breton boy after he spent 2 frigid nights in the woods near his home. The 7 year old was rescued Monday, found suffering from severe hypothermia. Sadly, he died in a Halifax hospital yesterday. The autistic boy had disappeared from his home on the weekend, after he had gone running after the family dog.
It won’t be such a happy Xmas for workers at Convergys. The Winnipeg call center announced a huge layoff yesterday, affecting about 500 workers. A company spokesperson says this all has to do with the tough economic times North America is facing. Apparently, contracts for Convergys have simply dried up.
