KVRR Local News
March 12, 2021
DILWORTH, Minn. (KVRR) – A fire that destroyed a home Thursday in Dilworth was caused by “an electrical issue.”
Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says the cause was determined by an investigator from the Minnesota Fire Marshal’s Office.
Empting says the person who was inside the home remains in the hospital, but is expected to be okay.
Dilworth and Moorhead fire crews were called out to the house on 7th Ave. Northeast at around 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
Dilworth Fire Asst. Chief Scott Payne says the fire started in the middle of the house but soon spread to other areas.
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A third worker has died in connection to the COVID-19 outbreak at the Red Deer Olymel plant, raising the death toll to four.
The death toll now exceeds that linked to Cargill’s High River meat-packing plant, the site of the largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Canada, which recorded three deaths and more than 950 infections last year.
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Scott Payne, a union labour relations officer with UFCW Local 401, confirmed the third Olymel worker death and fourth total fatality on Wednesday.
There was a big reason to celebrate last week, as Sollio Cooperative Group announced its financial results for 2020. The co-op owned by Quebec farmers, and formerly known as La Coop féderée, announced that revenue had soared to $8.2 billion, and pre-tax profits had more than doubled, to $201 million.
Most of the improvement was credited to the extraordinary performance of Olymel, its meat-packing subsidiary. With 35 plants and 15,000 employees, Olymel is Canada’s biggest pork processor, and also a major producer of poultry. Pork sales to China surged in 2020, after a brief embargo in 2019, and sales at home were robust, as well.
We have a choice right now to stop community spread. Or, if we fail to do so now, then we will be in even more concerning consequences in the next 10 to 14…
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Red Deer’s mayor says her city is at a critical crossroads, grappling with a growing active COVID-19 case rate that’s partially due to an outbreak at a local pork plant.
The number of active cases in the central Alberta city reached 454 on Wednesday, with 194 of those cases linked to the outbreak among workers at Olymel pork plant. The outbreak has resulted in 354 total cases and the death of an employee in his 30s.
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