Bombers take 12-3 lead into half over Calgary
9:23 PM
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers lead 12-3 over the Calgary Stampeders after two quarters of play at McMahon Stadium.
Friday’s regular season finale has no impact on the standings as both teams have their playoff positions locked in place.
The Bombers offence moved the chains but settled for four Sergio Castillo field goals.
Running back Brady Oliveira played the first quarter and finished with seven carries for 32 yards which gives him 2,012 all-purpose yards on the year. He’s only the second Canadian player in CFL history (Stampeders legend Jon Cornish, 2013) to accomplish the feat.
Bombers lead Stamps 6-0 after Q1
8:46 PM
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (13-4) lead the Calgary Stampeders (6-11) 6-0 after the first quarter of play at McMahon Stadium.
Friday’s regular season finale has no impact on the standings as both teams have their playoff positions locked in place.
Kicker Sergio Castillo drilled a pair of field goals for the Bombers.
Dauphin man dies in hospital following Highway 1 rollover
4:38 PM
A Dauphin man died in hospital after he was ejected from his vehicle when it lost control on a bridge in wintry conditions on Wednesday night, RCMP say.
Mounties say officers from the Stonewall and Headingley detachments rushed to the rollover on Highway 1, about a kilometre west of Highway 26 near St. Francis Xavier, around 11:40 p.m.
RCMP say investigators believe the vehicle was headed west on Highway 1 when it lost control on the bridge over the Assiniboine River, before it entered a ditch and rolled.
The 33-year-old driver, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, was ejected. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition, but died on Thursday. The vehicle’s passenger, a 45-year-old woman from Dauphin, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Thompson RCMP search for missing 14-year-old girl
3:10 PM
Thompson RCMP are searching for a teenage girl who has been missing since Monday evening.
RCMP say Vera Lynn Flett, 14, was reported missing just before 11 p.m. on Monday, after she was last seen earlier that evening at her home in Thompson.
Mounties say police and family are worried about Flett, who is 5-6 in height with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes, as she’s a youth who needs protection.
RCMP ask anyone who knows where she might be to call the Thompson detachment at 204-677-6909 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
Alabama, Nitty Gritty coming to 2024 Countryfest
11:02 AM
Dauphin’s Countryfest is turning back the clock for its 35th annual event next June.
Legendary country music groups Alabama and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will take the stage at the Selo Ukraina venue south of Dauphin June 28-30, 2024.
Jo Dee Messina, Mark Chesnutt and the Great Canadian Roadtrip group that features Michelle Wright, Manitoba’s Doc Walker and Jason McCoy are also on the bill, which was announced Friday morning.
Patricia Conroy, Lisa Brokop and Beverley Mahood, three stars of Canadian country music from the 1990s join in the festivities as well as U.S. supergroup the Frontmen, which includes Larry Stewart of Restless Heart, Richie McDonald of Lonestar and Tim Rushlow of Little Texas
Concert and camping passes go on sale Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. at countryfest.ca or 1-800-361-7300. A pre-sale for Countryfest members began Oct. 23 and ends Nov. 3.
