Perimeter Could Return to Dauphin
Air passenger service in Dauphin may yet be saved, but there's some work to be done.
City of Dauphin mayor Eric Irwin says he was in Winnipeg a few weeks ago and met with Michael Pyle, CEO of the corporation that owns Perimeter Aviation.
"They've indicated that they would provide a plane and the pilots, that they would provide them to us at their cost, that they would meet with us and if we could attempt to put together a business plan that would get them back in the air again then they would be happy to accomodate us."
Irwin named several considerations that would have to go into a business plan, including passengers, schedule and price point.
CKDM has not been able to reach Perimeter for comment.
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Fatal Snowmobile Crash a Freak Accident
Relatives are calling the death of a 49-year-old man and his 14-year-old son on the weekend a freak accident.
Russell Schellenberg says his little brother, Evan, was at the family's cabin and was heading on his snowmobile toward a campfire at about 4:30 Sunday morning.
At the time time, his father, Gary, was headed from the campfire toward the cabin. Somewhere in between, the two snowmobiles collided.
Russell Schellenberg says the deaths will forever impact his family, saying they have always loved being on their snowmobiles out in the wilderness.
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UNICEF Aims for Education as Part of Multi-Billion Dollar Appeal
The U.N. children's agency is launching a $2.8 billion appeal to help children in the midst of humanitarian emergencies across the world this year.
UNICEF director of emergency programs in Geneva Sikander Khan says about one-quarter of that appeal aims to go for education, which the agency considers a "life-saving measure for children'' at a time when war has shuttered many schools.
The appeal is part of a broader funding drive by the U.N. humanitarian agency that targets 76 million people in 63 countries.
The largest single chunk of UNICEF's appeal -- $1.16 billion -- is targeted for Syria and countries including Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan that have taken in millions of refugees from Syria's war. The appeal hopes to help some 5 million Syrian children inside and outside Syria.
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Deadly Blizzard
Parts of the US East Coast are still cleaning up from the paralyzing weekend blizzard that has claimed at least 42 lives.
Federal offices in the Washington area will stay closed another day today, and students in DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia will get a second snow day.
So much snow fell that many residential streets remain unpassable.
