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VOCM Mid-Day Update July 14th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. The investigation continues into the cause of
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  Speaker 1: a fire that destroyed a house on Ken Mount Road
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  Speaker 1: last Wednesday. The fire, which had the potential to spread
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  Speaker 1: to nearby businesses and surrounding woods, caused some anxious moments,
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  Speaker 1: but the Saint John's Regional Fire Department managed to knock
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  Speaker 1: it down despite a number of challenges. The fire claimed
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  Speaker 1: the lives of two pets, a dog and a chameleon.
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  Speaker 1: RNC says fire investigators are continuing their probe. It was
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  Speaker 1: Brown's Family Farm to the rescue in response to a
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  Speaker 1: very real but unusual problem at Frontline Action over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Brown's Family Farm answered the call after a colony of
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  Speaker 1: honeybees established itself in an old propane tank on the
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  Speaker 1: Paintball Course. Frontline owner Tom Davis says he was amazed
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  Speaker 1: by the operation.
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  Speaker 2: They came out and they put a box and they
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  Speaker 2: put a special scent in it, and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: bees went in it. But it wasn't enough, so they
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  Speaker 2: ended up taking a reciprocating song, cutting this big propate
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  Speaker 2: tank in half. They didn't use smoke, apparently the bees
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  Speaker 2: are very dotha. You can imagine if you're in your
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  Speaker 2: home and someone cuts it in half with it with
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  Speaker 2: the reciprocating side, you'd think that would upset you, but
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  Speaker 2: apparently they just kind of took it in stride. They
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  Speaker 2: reached down and they found the queen. They put the
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  Speaker 2: queen in their box. Thousands of bees migrated and followed
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  Speaker 2: that queen into the box and off they went.
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  Speaker 1: David says the entire operation took no more than an hour.
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  Speaker 1: The provincial government is assessing the province's shipbuilding capacity in
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to fulfill its election commitment to construct new ferries.
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  Speaker 1: Master mariner Chris Drodge says any efforts to expand shipbuilding
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  Speaker 1: capacity in the province is welcome news. He says, there
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  Speaker 1: are a couple of possibilities with a number of industrial
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  Speaker 1: sites that could potentially fit the bill.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've been hearing a lot about bull Arm.
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  Speaker 3: I think that facility is quite capable of hosting a shipyard.
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  Speaker 3: But we also have new doc in Saint John's and
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  Speaker 3: they're also talking about expanding, you know, so two exciting
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  Speaker 3: other areas of the there is potential. I guess in Stevenville,
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  Speaker 3: you know the large port out there, and of course
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  Speaker 3: you know up in the you know Tradin Bay, there's
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  Speaker 3: other ports. But like when you talk about the big
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  Speaker 3: industrial sites that exist right now, which would probably be
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  Speaker 3: more focused on would probably be be bull Arm, New
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  Speaker 3: doc here in Saint John's and you know potentially Mary'stown.
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  Speaker 1: The Connors and new Hook Elite Hockey camp is cutting
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  Speaker 1: up the ice in conception based out The camp, which
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  Speaker 1: is in its second year, was created by local p
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  Speaker 1: WHL player Maggie Connors, who wanted to provide young female
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  Speaker 1: athletes with opportunities that she didn't have while growing up.
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  Speaker 4: It was a few years ago when I started kind
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  Speaker 4: of crafting into my head. But to be honest, it's
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  Speaker 4: something I've always thought of growing up and being able
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  Speaker 4: to play hockey in Newfoundland and know when I was younger,
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't a ton of female opportunities, especially in terms
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  Speaker 4: of camps being coached by female staff. It's always something
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  Speaker 4: I have thought of, but I'd say I really came
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  Speaker 4: to fruish in the only three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This year, Connors partnered with another local PWHL player, Abby
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  Speaker 1: new Hook to run the camp together. That's your news.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland.