Archive : August 2010

The links at St. Charles

When a handful of Winnipeggers decided the time was ripe to take on the “royal and ancient game” in 1894, they couldn’t have foreseen that their humble beginning would result in the city turning into a golf mecca with more c...

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This year’s curb appeal award winner

Iris Kennedy, the owner of the home at 6363 Southboine Dr., was the WinnipegREALTORS® curb appeal award winner in this year’s Winnipeg in Bloom contest. For claiming the award, she received a special framed print by well-known loca...

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Fishing stories

The annual Fish Winnipeg Media Challenge provides a means of relaying the useful message  to a rag-tag collection of print, radio and television media types that some children living in this city require a helping hand when it comes to e...

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Must halt the current rental crisis

Year-in and year-out, Winnipeg consistently has one of the lowest apartment vacancy rates in the country, hovering around one per cent over the last few  years. To no one’s surprise, Winnipeg recorded a one-per-cent vacancy rate in...

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How green is our lake?

Greenish masses of algae blooms are nothing new to the South Basin of Lake Winnipeg. The Winnipeg Tribune on August 4, 1939, reported beaches along the lake were plagued by algae, “a water plant of the lowest division of the vegetable w...

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