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Vol. 128 No. 8 Friday, April 30, 2010 Minnedosa, Manitoba Canada R0J 1E0 90 cents + tax

Mock
accident Vandals strike train park
planned for
Monday
By DARRYL HOLYK

O n Monday May 3rd,

a portion of Armit-
age Avenue, between
Tanner’s Crossing School
and the Minnedosa Col-
legiate parking lot, will
be closed as it will be the
site of a staged mock ac-
cident. The MCI T.A.D.D.
(Teens Against Drinking
and Driving) committee
has requested a P.A.R.T.Y.
(Prevent Alcohol and Risk
Related Trauma in Youth)
presentation. Students
from Grades 7 to 12 will
take part in a full afternoon
of presentations aimed at
teaching youth about the
real life dangers of drink-
ing and driving, drug use,
other dangers and conse-
quences.
The exercise will begin
at 12:45 p.m. with a mock
car accident in which
T.A.D.D. committee mem- Photo by Darryl Holyk
bers will role play the part Brion Pollon is pictured by the smashed window of the caboose door in Tanner`s Park on Main Street.
of youths involved in a se- Sometime over the weekend, culprits entered the CP engine in the park, smashing windows and lights
rious collision. Minnedosa
as well as dumping cans of paint in the engine control room.
RCMP, EMS and the Fire
Department will be on
By DARRYL HOLYK doors on engine #4038 around the units, it appears engines interior, opened Attempted entry to the
hand, doing their regu-
were open. Brion Pollon someone under the influ- them and dumped them in caboose was unsuccessful,
lar jobs, to show students
what takes place at the
scene of a motor vehicle
T he Canadian Pacific
engine and caboose
in Tanner’s Park on Main
was contacted and upon
further investigation, he
realized the engine and ca-
ence of alcohol entered the
engine by smashing out
the plexi-glass window on
the engine`s control room.
It appears the culprit(s)
then made their way to
although the window on
the north door of the ca-
boose was smashed.
accident.
Street, were targets of boose had been victims of the east door. Once inside, the rear engine room and Minnedosa RCMP
vandalism over the week- vandalism. the person(s) located cans smashed a number of lights were contacted and con-
Continued
end. Monday morning, it With a number of beer of rust paint which were before exiting through the tinue to investigate this in-
on Page 2
was discovered that the bottles and cans strewn being used to re-paint the back door. cident of vandalism.

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