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• 67 years of memories

  By Annie Gallant - Quesnel Cariboo Observer Published: July 29, 2010 5:00 PM Updated: July 29, 2010 6:07 PM In the midst of war, love flourished for two Air Force recruits Marion loves George and George loves Marion.

• Man. teen who killed mother, five-year-old sister gets youth sentence

  A teenage boy from Manitoba who shot and killed his adoptive mother and his five-year-old stepsister has been sentenced as a youth.

• U.S. aviation lovers in awe of Canadian skies

  If you ask Gilbert and Barbara Pierce, there is no better way to see our country than from the air.

• Dozen female pilots slated to fly in here

  A dozen women pilots are set to touch down in Fort Frances on Sunday as part of the annual cross-country "Gold Cup Air Rally." Anyone interested in airplanes, meeting the pilots, and watching them land or take off are invited out to the Fort Frances Airport, said Marilyn Dickson, one of the participants who has been flying the skies for more than ...

• Genealogy Query - JAMES : LAWSON

  Born July 4/1948 Brandon Manitoba. Birth name Lawrence Mark Lawson. Adopted name Thomas Benjamin James.

• Schmutz falls short of crown

  Despite not cracking the top 20 at the Miss Teen Canada World pageant over the weekend in Toronto, Emo resident Felicia Schmutz still is proud of the one title that can't be taken away from her: Miss Teen Northwestern Ontario.

• Poor crops will have ripple effect

  Wet fields have left up to one-fifth of the West's farmland unplanted. Photograph by: Bryan Schlosser, Regina Leader-Post, Reuters In more than 40 years of farming in northeast Saskatchewan, Wayne Black has accepted that excessive rain is just one of the risks you take in one of Canada's most fertile regions.

• Sea-Doo, wheelchair in bizarre crash

  Charges have been laid in a strange crash involving two vehicles and a person in a wheelchair in Brandon, Man.

• Family Memorials Announces Closing of Prospectus Offering

  Family Memorials Inc. announces it has closed on 11,749,500 Common Shares for gross proceeds of $939,960 pursuant to its previously announced short form prospectus offering of Common Shares at an issue price of $0.08 per share.

• Compost pickup set for Brandon, Man.

  The City of Brandon's curbside compost pickup is set to begin Thursday for 500 of its residents.