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Simone Zahodnik, 9, rides the zipline with the help of volunteer Ray Perron of Alliance Tree Care during the Arbor Day activities in Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg Saturday.

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They didn’t come out in the numbers organizers had hoped for, but the anti-Monsanto message got out anyway.

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