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 * City sprays against cankerworms

What?** The City of Winnipeg is going to start spraying trees on Sunday May 30 because of an unusually high population of cankerworms. These are green worms that dangle from sticky webs. These worms are already feeding on leaves beginning to grow, and making small holes known as "shotgun holes". Trees that have had their leaves stripped by the cankerworms become more easily to be attacked by beetles and other pests, said city entomologist Taz Stuart. The cankerworm control program will begin Sunday evening at 10 p.m. Crews will move through locations in the city where trees are at risk of leaf damage.

This event will happen at The City of Winnipeg.
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This event will happen on Sunday May 30 evening at 10 p.m.
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The people who were involved were Taz Stuart the city entomologist, and the people who own trees that are damaged because of these worms.
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This event occured because the population of canker worms unusually increased.
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I chose this article because even though this event occured in Winnepeg, I saw wierd worms dangling on webs too. Now I know they are called cankerworms, and I hate worms soooo much.
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April 2,2009 **Current Events Jenny** __**Stunning 82-year-old hospital patient with Taser was justified**__ **Link to article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/02/bc-taser-hospital-patient-report.html** **What?** An 82 year old man named Frank Lasser at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops was stunned with a taser because of him refusing to put a knife down. Lasser was a patient at the hospital due to pneumonia when the nurse noticed he had a knife. She called security and then the police. Three RCMP officers came. Lasser, after the incident said that he was frail and his memory was impaired by drugs at the time. And the former prison guard suggested that a couple of guys with a blanket could have easily got him without using a taser. But Paul Kennedy the chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP said that at the point, Lasser turned in the direction of an RCMP member with the knife raised above his head and ready to strike downward. So for the safety of the fellow officer, an officer deployed his Taser at Lasser. This event happened in the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. The article does not tell you exactly when, but the nurse caught Lasser with a knife early morning. The people that were involved in this event were Paul Kennedy (the chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP), the nurse, the 3 RCMP officers, and Frank Lasser. This event took place because Frank Lasser, a patient from the Royal Inland Hospital refused to put a knife down. I chose this article because I was really shocked when I saw the topic. I wanted to know why an 82 year old man gets stunned by a taser.
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**Plumber finds woman's diamond in the rough__ **
**What?** On January 14th, a woman accidently flushed her diamond wedding ring down the toilet in Black Bear Diner in Pheonix. The ring was about $70 000. Elena Castela, the restaurant shift manager, said that city workers opened a pipe outside the restaurant to try to flush the ring into the open. But that didn't work. So the city called the office of Mr. Rooter, a plumbing service. Mike Roberts, the general manager of Mr.Rooter said they guided a camera into the pipe with a light attached. He found the ring 2 metres over from where it was flushed. It took 90 minutes of jackhammering and pipe removing to get the ring out. 8 hours after it was flushed into the toilet. Mr. Rooter's bill came to $5 200 and city's bill was $1000. Also Berry of Eureka, California, and her husband tipped Roberts and technician $400 each and gave $200 to the diner employee for staying late.

This event happened at a restaurant called Black Bear Diner in Pheonix.
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It doesn't tell you when the event took place, but it took 8 hours to take the ring out after it was flushed.
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The people that were involved were Berry (person who flushed ring), her husband, Elena Castela (restaurant shift manager), Mike Roberts (general manager of Mr. Rooters), city workers, technician, and a diner employee.
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This event took place because a woman dropped her diamond wedding ring accidently into the toilet right when it was flushing. The ring was about $70 000
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I chose this article because first of all, I laughed my head off reading this article, and second of all I wanted to find out how you would get something back if you flushed something down the toilet.
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