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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My mother is coming to visit and our little kids want her to sleep in their bedroom, where there’s a double bed and a single. My husband thinks this idea is ridiculous and says grandma needs her sleep, but I disagree.

I remember sleeping with my grandma — who’s now with the angels — and she told us grandkids (two girls) some wonderful bedtime stories she made up herself. She even put our names into them, making us the stars of the stories.

The best part was getting into our pyjamas with our grandmother, who showed us the magic cord from the little thing that ran from her near-deaf ear down to the secret battery pocket hidden in the bra of her slip. It made her hear us better in the daytime. We thought, “Wow!”

Not surprisingly my own mother has inherited her mom’s fantastic storytelling talent and who knows what else she has to teach the kids when she’s alone with them? I want them to be close.

BRANDON — A Brandon man has been found guilty of killing his 71-year-old mother with a hatchet in the fall of 2023 after his lawyers argued he should be held not criminally responsible.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Elliot Leven found 47-year-old Gabriel Heymans guilty of second-degree murder on Monday.

Heymans, who listened to the hearing by phone from the Brandon Regional Health Centre, will be sentenced at a later date.

During the April trial, court heard Heymans lived with his mother, Maureen Heymans, for seven years in a two-bedroom apartment in Brandon and hadn’t spoken to her for more than a year before her death.

A franchise business owner is the 14th candidate to register in the race to become Winnipeg’s next mayor.

Gagandeep Bawa, 45, said he has owned a downtown Subway franchise for five years, and believes more work is needed to address safety concerns in the area.

Bawa said robberies and thefts have led some businesses to move out, showing more support is needed. If elected, he would push for a greater security presence, such as more Downtown Community Safety Partnership or Exchange District BIZ patrols.

Bawa said he would also attempt to create water bill rebates for seniors and single parents.

A rural Manitoba physician is warning that Ste. Rose du Lac could face significant emergency department closures after its doctors were stretched thin helping absorb the fallout from the flooding and prolonged shutdown of Dauphin Regional Health Centre.

When Dauphin was evacuated July 1, Ste. Rose expanded its emergency department to 24-7 service and nearly doubled its in-patient load. But with Dauphin’s ER reopening last week and staff that had been temporarily working in Ste. Rose returning to their regular posts, Dr. Ashley Blais says her hospital, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Dauphin, has been left without enough physicians to maintain reliable emergency coverage.

“We answered the call when Manitoba’s health-care system needed us,” Blais said Monday. “Now we are asking the Manitoba health-care system to answer ours.”

Blais, who penned an open letter to Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, is calling on the province, Shared Health and Prairie Mountain Health to urgently develop a sustainable staffing plan for Ste. Rose, with direct input from physicians working there.