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WINNIPEG For some Manitobans, shopping locally might be difficult depending on where they live. However, one man is hoping to make it easier to boost the reach of those local businesses. Joshua Vatnsdal, who is the owner of Prairie Flavours, is helping get that local taste to Manitobans with the help of a retrofitted ambulance. I saw (the ambulance) sitting in the field and I asked the farmer if she was willing to sell it and she agreed. It still smells like farm a little, said Vatnsdal. He is currently in the process of taking out the walls in the vehicle and setting it up to bring the food to others. ....
WINNIPEG A grass fire that burned in a field Monday afternoon in Charleswood was close to burning some homes in the neighbourhood, according to one resident who witnessed the fire. At approximately 2:30 p.m., Jim Macgregor and his wife Christine noticed the blaze burning in the field behind his home on Charleswood Road and Rannock Avenue. “Our living room faces the field behind us, which is west of our house, and she noticed a lot of smoke, so we rushed outside just to see what was happening,” Jim said. “There were flames all about the field, and also flames into our yard, but not quite at our house.” ....
WINNIPEG Fire crews in southern Manitoba are working to extinguish a wildfire estimated to be about 400 acres in size. Stuartburn Fire Chief Bob Fosty told CTV News the fire was reported around 2:30 p.m. on Monday. It is burning roughly seven kilometres southwest of Zhoda though Fosty said its origins are unclear at this time. While fire crews do not yet have the fire under control as it spreads out towards the east and west, Fosty said there have been no evacuations required. There has been no injuries or loss of life or loss of property, but we are working at it to extinguish both the east and the west edge of it. ....
WINNIPEG An animal rescue shelter is praising city workers for helping rescue 11 abandoned rats. Cindy Hildebrand is the director of Popcorns and Binkies Rescue Haven and she said on March 29, she received an email from city workers saying several rats had been found in a cage at a worksite on Murray Avenue near North Main Street and the Perimeter Highway. When I got out there (the workers) had basically left it exactly how they had found it. So I was able to see this piece of carpet over a cage and when I lifted the carpet back and I had climbed into the ditch, there were at the time looked like about six to eight rats in the cage, but it turned out there were 11 in total, said Hildebrand. ....