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• Municipal Awareness Week kicks off in Corner Brook with a youth mock council meeting

  Local Grade 6 student Joey Manning won the city’s “Mayor for the Day Essay Contest.”

• Government recognizes Emergency Preparedness Week and importance of plans

  Residents should always have an emergency preparedness kit on hand so they can be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours. 

• More details on the removal of the MSC Baltic III; a road being built and a camp coming for workers

  Work is underway now to build an access road from the vessel to the beach, where tanks will be cleaned of fuel and large sections of the ship will be dismantled on a working pad.

• On May19th, we will hear details of a report on an electricity deal with Hydro Quebec

  Premier Tony Wakeham says given this report touches on significant commercial sensitivity, the report is now undergoing a full technical and legal review before it can be publicly released.

• Foundation representing mounties likes the budget with 25 new RCMP and other public safety measures

  The RCMP already serves over half of the NL’s population across roughly 80 per cent of its landmass.