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Frustrated owners won’t rebuild demolished Boujee

The co-owner of a former Main Street restaurant vows he will not rebuild in Winnipeg’s downtown, owing to constant crime and vandalism in the area.

Kanish Sood, who is one of three partners of the now-demolished Boujee Restaurant and Bar, said he did everything he could to keep the building safe from vandals after it was hit by arson last October.

“After that (fire), there is about already 15, 20 times there has been break-in in the property,” Sood said Monday. “We have been informing police continuously that there is continuously break-ins. People are trying to go inside the building and stealing things, but there was no action.”

After Boujee was torched, Sood and his partners locked the building and boarded it up. They also hired private security to monitor it. The break-ins continued.

Terri Clark striking a balance on- and offstage en route to Winnipeg

Terri Clark spends most of her summers outdoors, performing in the “middle of fields” at festivals and fairs across Canada and the midwestern United States.

“’Tis the season for corn dogs and ferris wheels and country music,” Clark, 58, says over the phone in late June from somewhere in Wisconsin.

The iconic Canadian country singer is no stranger to a heavy touring schedule, having spent much of her career on the road since the release of her breakout self-titled album in 1995.

These days, when she’s not criss-crossing the continent in her tour bus, Clark can also be found casting for pike, walleye and bass in the middle of lakes and rivers. Fishing became a passion during the pandemic, when live performances weren’t an option.

Ducks Unlimited makes province’s largest-ever conservation-land purchase

A Manitoba landscape that helped save the Giant Canada goose from extinction has now been permanently protected in the province’s largest conservation land purchase in history.

Spotty service, U.S. roaming charges leave Somerset woman calling for answers

A southwestern Manitoba woman is voicing her concerns about cell service in the area after she was billed more than $100 in U.S. roaming charges despite never leaving her community.

Teresa Acheson received a notification on her phone Monday at about 7:30 a.m. saying she had entered the United States and would be charged $13 per day for unlimited calls and text messages.

The only problem is that she was not in the U.S. She was lying in bed at her home near Somerset, some 50 kilometres away from the U.S. border.

“People have said to watch if you’re driving close to the border because you’ll get dinged, but I was sitting at home,” she said Wednesday.

Judge dials up two years’ probation for ‘prolific’ 911 harasser

A “prolific” 911 caller has been sentenced to two years of supervised probation after admitting to calling emergency services nearly 200 times when there was no emergency.

Kenneth Jarvis, 53, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of making repeated harassing phone calls between November 2021 and April of this year.

“Mr. Jarvis is a prolific caller to emergency services, generating numerous unfounded calls for service and this was causing a strain on Winnipeg Police Service officers tasked to attend to determine what was going on,” Crown attorney Nancy Fazenda told provincial court Judge Robert Heinrichs.

Jarvis was arrested in April and released on bail, then rearrested and taken into custody June 21 when he again called 911 without cause. Jarvis was arrested in possession of crack cocaine.