Winnipeg Free Press By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 19, 2021
Move over Year of the Ox. The gardeners are taking over.
If the number of people tending plots at community gardens and greenspaces across the city in the past week is any indication, the pandemic-friendly pastime will be as popular in 2021 as it was last year, when Greenhouse Canada magazine declared 2020 the Year of the Garden in its September 2020 issue.
Barbara Ediger has had her hands in the soil long before gardening became a trendy pandemic activity. She has had a plot for more than 25 years at the Riverview Garden Society’s space between the Riverview Health Centre and the Red River shore.
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Sam Lloyd Jones, of Heol Cefnydd, appeared at Mold Magistrates Court on Thursday. The 30-year-old admitted that on October 16 last year he drove a motor vehicle on Churchill Drive in Caia Park when the proportion of benzoylecgonine in his blood exceeded the specified limit. He was found to have 513 microgrammes per litre of blood. The limit is 50. Jones was fined £120 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge, as well as £85 costs. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 12 months.
Man hides up a tree after taking cops on dangerous 90mph chase
“The manner and the speeds that Perks drove at were irresponsible and put many innocent members of the public lives at risk
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A banned motorist hit speeds of 90mph, drove on the wrong side of the road, and overtook another vehicle after his car s tyres were shredded by a stinger during a police chase.
Banned driver leads police on 90 mph chase then crashes and hides in a tree
William Perks s Mazda was spotted hurtling through Runcorn on the wrong side of the road on March 28.
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William Perks, 31, of Churchill Drive, Tarporley, was jailed for dangerous driving. (Image: cheshirepolice)
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