News briefs for Friday, September 30, 2022

Winnipeg police say a missing 76-year-old woman who was missing since Thursday afternoon has been found.

Janice Borlase was safely located Thursday, the Winnipeg Police Service said that night.

A pair of Winnipeg writers won awards for their children’s books at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards, presented at a ceremony in Toronto on Sept. 29.

David A. Robertson and Vancouver-based illustrator Julie Flett won the $50,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for their picture book On the Trapline, published by Tundra Books. In November 2021, the book won the pair their second Governor General’s Literary Award in the children’s literature – illustration category; their previous picture-book collaboration, When We Were Alone, won the same award in 2017.

Harriet Zaidman’s Second Chances, published by Red Deer Press, was awarded the $5,000 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. “I hope the lessons of the polio epidemic can influence young people in this era of mis- and disinformation, and that the knowledge of what happened to the residents of Rooster Town can help in the process of reconciliation,” Zaidman said in an email to the Free Press following the win.

The full list of winners is available here.

RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance after shots were fired at a home close to Fisher River Cree Nation school early Thursday morning.

Police arrived at 8 a.m. to find a bullet hole on the exterior of the home. The school was placed in lockdown and later closed.

Police say four males drove up to the home around 4:30 a.m. at which time one male exited the vehicle and shot at the home before driving away.

Children were inside the home at the time. No one was injured.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Fisher Branch RCMP at 204-372-6329.

A firefighter was hurt while responding to a significant blaze on Sutherland Avenue early Friday morning.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service crews were called to the first 100 block of the North Point Douglas street for a report of two vehicles burning at 6:36 a.m.

Firefighters found two vehicles fully engulfed in flames with the fire spreading to an adjacent two-storey commercial building. Crews extinguished the fires in the vehicles before moving to the blaze in the building.

No one was found in the building, but one firefighter was treated on scene for a minor injury. The department is still investigating the cause of the fire.

Marissa Naylor will be representing Canada on the international stage.

The 24-year-old Winnipegger has been named to the national team that will compete at the Pan Am 10-pin Women’s Bowling Championships in Lima, Peru, Oct. 20-29.

Naylor will join a six-member squad competing in singles, doubles, trios and team events. A top-16 finish would qualify her for the masters division.

World championships are not being staged this year, but a good performance could qualify Naylor for the worlds in 2023.

 

 

Two truck drivers were taken to hospital following a multi-vehicle collision that shut down traffic on a portion of the Perimeter Highway for several hours Friday.

RCMP say a semi-trailer jackknifed on the highway near Portage Avenue sometime in the early morning. Two tow trucks were at the scene around 6 a.m. when a northbound semi rear-ended one of the tow trucks, causing both vehicles to collide with the jackknifed semi.

A second tow truck driver was directing traffic away from the jackknifed semi trailer at the time and was able to move out of the way before the collision.

Both truck drivers were injured and taken to hospital in stable condition.