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VOCM News Afternoon Update September 27th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: Sunny skies in Metro on this Sunday afternoon, temperature 14 degrees.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Brian Medore. The recreational fishery officially closes today, marking
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  Speaker 2: the end of a historic season. The fishery opened back
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  Speaker 2: in July under a new seven-day-a-week model for most parts
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  Speaker 2: of the province. The expansion was granted following a healthy
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  Speaker 2: return of cod stocks, something not seen in decades. However,
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  Speaker 2: not all areas were included in the expanded season. Parts
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  Speaker 2: of the west and southwest coasts were left off the
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  Speaker 2: list due to ongoing concerns over low stock numbers in
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  Speaker 2: that region. Ottawa says it will re-evaluate the numbers throughout
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  Speaker 2: the winter ahead of next year's fishery. The executive director
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  Speaker 2: of the United Way, Newfoundland Labrador, says while not a
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  Speaker 2: medical emergency line, 211 can connect people with medical personnel
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  Speaker 2: if required. Provided by the United Way, the service has
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  Speaker 2: been present in Canada for 24 years, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: introduced in this province until 2020. It's a referral service
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  Speaker 2: that connects people to a variety of community, social, and
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  Speaker 2: government supports, including things like food banks. Spokesperson Lisa Fifield
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  Speaker 2: says it is not an emergency line. So we could
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  Speaker 2: keep them online and connect them directly with, say, Mental
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  Speaker 2: Health Association or the Mental Health.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: A man faces several charges after a property in the
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  Speaker 2: West End of St. John's was damaged at daybreak yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: RNC located a 27-year-old who matched the description provided to
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  Speaker 2: them and took him in. He'll be charged with breaching
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  Speaker 2: probation and causing a disturbance. A man has been charged
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  Speaker 2: with violence against an intimate partner after an incident in
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  Speaker 2: the West End of St. John's. It happened just before
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  Speaker 2: the lunch hour yesterday. Officers arrested the 63-year-old, also charging
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  Speaker 2: him with property damage. He was taken to the lockup.
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  Speaker 2: The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent investigators to
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  Speaker 2: a crash site southeast of Montreal after a helicopter came
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  Speaker 2: down yesterday afternoon. According to provincial police, four people died.
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  Speaker 2: The aircraft was on fire when emergency crews arrived. The
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  Speaker 2: bodies of the four occupants later declared dead at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The Newfoundland Regiment scored early and often to blow out
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  Speaker 2: the Halifax Moosehead 6-0 in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey
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  Speaker 2: League at the Mary Brown Centre last night. They led
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  Speaker 2: 4-0 after the first and 5-0 after the second, outshooting
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  Speaker 2: the visitors 27-25. Matthew Frost and Alexis Michaud each scored
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  Speaker 2: twice for the winners. while Newfoundlander Ben Vitch and Tyson
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  Speaker 2: Gauguin added singles. Goaltender Antoine Proulx stopped everything the Mooseheads
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  Speaker 2: threw at him. The Newfoundland Regiment plays its third consecutive
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  Speaker 2: series at home next weekend. The weather in the spring
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  Speaker 2: and summer this year was challenging for farmers. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say it, though, from the crops that have been harvested
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  Speaker 2: at Lester's Farm Market. Co-owner Chris Lester describes this year
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  Speaker 2: as a real head-scratcher. saying it was a challenge right
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  Speaker 2: from the start. In spite of that, some of his
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  Speaker 2: crops doing really well.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably our best year we've ever had on potatoes. Pumpkins,
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  Speaker 1: they're late ripening, but also a very, very good year
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  Speaker 1: on pumpkins as well.
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  Speaker 2: Lester states that there's a sea of orange out at
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  Speaker 2: their site, currently between 12,000 and 14,000 pumpkins on display.
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  Speaker 1: We are consumed by pumpkins for it seems like the
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  Speaker 1: whole month of September. Stepping up, whether it's laying out
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  Speaker 1: the pumpkins in various displays or the different hay bale
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  Speaker 1: art we put out there. It definitely rules our world.
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  Speaker 1: The other day we were coming down the road with
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  Speaker 1: a big load of pumpkins on a trailer and blew
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  Speaker 1: out a tire just like too many pumpkins. Anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: how things are these days.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, your weather forecast.