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Volume 137 Issue 27 Friday, October 18, 2019 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

INSIDE Thanksgiving or Christmas?

this week
By DARRYL HOLYK

A lthough last weekend

was the Thanksgiving
Long weekend in Canada,
many areas of southern
Manitoba looked more like
it was the Christmas holi-
days!

Margaret Friday, October 11th

saw the arrival of a Colo-

McKenzie
rodo Low hitting the re-
gion, bringing with it the
season’s first major snow-
Turns 103 storm.

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While some areas were
pummelled with heavy
snow early in the day, the
Minnedosa region did not
see the storms arrival un-
til late Friday afternoon.
However, in preparation
for what was to come,
many pre-scheduled
events were postponed
and schools in the Rolling
River School Division were
closed for the day.
Throughout the night, Photos by Karen Mitchell
snow fell and winter
winds blew and by Satur-
Fundraiser day morning, residents
awoke to an unwelcome
hardest hit areas resulted
in thousands of Manitoba
For Young site of heavy, wet snow.
The warm October tem-
Hydro customers loosing
power for days and the
Cancer peratures mixed with high
moisture levels in the
Province declaring a state
of emergency for certain

Patient snow, made the dig-out areas.

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and clean-up difficult for
those equipped with only a
shovel or snowblower.
Fortunately, the
Minnedosa area was not
hit as hard as some regions
of the province during
the weekend blizzard. As
a result of the storm, the
Locally, the greatest
damage from the Thanks-
giving Blizzard will be felt
by our farmers who still
have crops out in the field.
A similar early season
blizzard blew through this
area 60 years ago in Octo- Lawn mowers sit buried in snow at Four Seasons Repair last
ber 1959. weekend after the season’s first, early, heavy snowstorm.

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