Dauphin Pioneer Association Celebrates 100 Years
A new feature will be revealed today at the Fort Dauphin Museum.
Pioneers of past will be recognized by the association with speeches from a few key community figures.
Treasure of the Dauphin Pioneer Association, Dean Durston says the event will showcase an important item.
"We're unveiling a special historical marker that we have just set up. It's right by the pioneer caren in front of the south gate of the Fort Dauphin Museum. So, we will be unveiling that and having a few dignitarian speeches."
The picnic begins today at 4pm with sandwiches and ice cream being served.
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Missing Teen Body Found
A teenager who went missing while swimming near a dam in Manitoba has been found dead.
Travis Bauman was swimming with his brother and a friend on Wednesday near the dam in Winkler when he went underwater and didn't resurface.
R-C-M-P say Bauman's body was located by divers about 70 metres east of the dam.
Police say they're still investigating.
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Winnipeg Church Fire
A fire at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral has left more than $1 million dollars in damages.
The fire that started in the back of the church late Thursday evening is being considered as suspicious, with the Winnipeg arson unit involved in the investigation.
The church is also home to the Manitoba branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Museum of Canada.
Its Winnipeg museum has artifacts and crafts that were brought over by the first wave of Ukrainian immigrants, but thankfully the museum was not touched by the fire.
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Turkey Coup Heritage Site
The World Heritage Committee has decided to ``refer'' a bid to list a huge area of boreal forest that stretches across Manitoba and Ontario as a world heritage site.
The decision to refer the Pimachiowin Aki nomination came today at a UNESCO meeting in Turkey, which was interrupted by the Friday's failed coup attempt in Turkey.
Prior to the meeting, Pimachiowin Aki Corporation learned the Pikangikum First Nation, one of the members of the corporation, was withdrawing its support for the project.
UNESCO says when an application is referred, it allows for three years to submit additional information for the committee to consider.
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France Truck Attack
French authorities have detained two more people in the investigation into the Bastille Day attack in addition to five already arrested.
Also France's health minister says about 85 people remain hospitalized after a deadly truck rampage in the Mediterranean city of Nice.
18 of them are in life-threatening condition, including one child.
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Space Launch
Private company SpaceX plans to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA.
The unmanned Falcon rocket is scheduled to lift off shortly after midnight from Cape Canaveral.
Excellent weather is forecast.
Aboard the rocket is a replica of a docking port destroyed in a SpaceX launch accident last summer.
