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• Impaired driver caught passed out in Port au Port Sunday evening

  The 32-year-old man was taken to hospital, treated and released.

• A bit of a break this week for those working at snow clearing in Corner Brook

  Public Works Chair Councillor Doonna Wheeler says it’s been a struggle for the past couple of months with double the amount of snow nearly daily making it hard to keep up with snow clearing major routes within 16-24 hours. 

• 20 NL communities taking part in 211 Day today

  Trevor Freeborn is with 211 NL and says their number one call revolves around food with 40 percent of callers looking for things like Meals on Wheels, food banks, and community pantries and this is followed by a need for housing support.

• 160 tonnes of material recycled during January at Western Reginal Waste Management, up from previous year

  Lynn Howse says 867 new items were searched, there were   152 new visitors to the Waste Wizard App, and 23 new searches added to the list.

• Corner Brook Mayor pleased new dual stream recycling is showing lower contamination

  On Bayfm with Lenny Bennoit this morning, Mayor Linda Chaisson says the goal was to lower contamination on recyclable materials and numbers are up.