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A Button Up Weekend

October 21, 2007

NORTHWOOD, NORTH DAKOTA – Twenty volunteers from Winkler, Manitoba spent the weekend here, not cross border shopping, but helping residents “button up” their houses for winter.

 

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Regional Statistics

MDS Extension Office
6A-1325 Markham Rd
Winnipeg , MB R3T 4J6
Canada

T: (866) 261-1274 (Can. only)
T: (204) 261-1274
F: (204) 261-1279

mdscn@mds.mennonite.net

Regional Statistics
Area: 2,180,101 square miles (5,646,426 square km) without the North; includes Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Yukon, the Territories and Nunavet Units: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan; Atlantic Canada has a board representative but no formal unit.

Units: 6

Congregations: 828 in MDS database

Most common disasters: floods, wildfires, tornadoes/high winds, ice storms, landslides

Biggest disasters: fire storms, British Columbia, 2003; Red River floods, Manitoba, 1997; ice storm, Ontario/Quebec, 1998 2006 major local responses: flood cleanup, Manitoba; windstorms, rebuilding after house fire, Ontario; extreme weather, British Columbia; floods, Newfoundland

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