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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 06, 2012, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A2 A 2 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012 winnipegfreepress. com HCG DIET NOW IN WINNIPEG Lose A POUND A DAY! on the ZERONA � & H C G D I E T C OMBINATION PACK AGE 504- 0885 CALL US NOW! HCG r e leases the Abnormal fat stores and makes them available to be used as fuel. You lose f a t & keep muscle. FREE HCG DIET TREATMENT with every Zeron � Laser Therapy P acka ge Purchased! ONLY PHYSICIAN ADMINISTERED HCG DIET TREATMENT www. hcgwpg. ca . hgcwpg@ gmail. com This Day in Manitoba June 6, 1904 - Samuel Hooper is appointed the first Provincial Architect. In that role he designed many iconic provincial buildings, including the Land Titles building, Brandon Court House and the Vaughan Street jail. http:// thiswaswinnipeg. blogspot. com . TODAY ON WINNIPEGFREEPRESS. COM VIDEO: Free Press tests photo radar at Grant and Nathaniel POLL: Should the sale of tobacco products be banned? �� YOU will see a change when you open your Free Press today and discover shades of red, grey and black. The colour palette is the new look of the six community newspapers published by Canstar Community News and delivered to Free Press subscribers: The Headliner, The Herald, The Lance, The Metro, The Times and The Sou'wester . The newspapers' redesign represents the direction Canstar's community newspapers are going. " We're the voice of the community," said Michelle Pereira, publisher and sales manager at Canstar Community News. " The changes include the colour palette and fresh new logos. They are necessary for us to move forward." The community newspapers' templates have not been updated since 2007, and in addition to a new design, some of the papers will also be offering readers new features like a pet column and an auto section. Pereira collaborated with Kelvin Henderson of the Free Press production department on the new design. John Kendle, managing editor at Canstar Community News and editor of Uptown , supervised the team responsible for implementing the changes. kristy. hoffman@ freepress. mb. ca T HE trail of a $ 300,000 stolen tractor took a mucky turn last week, after the machine was discovered hidden under a mega- pile of manure. On Thursday, acting on a Crime Stoppers tip, Fisher Branch RCMP raided a farm in the Rural Municipality of Fisher. They came in search of a tractor which had been stolen from a farm equipment dealership in December 2010. And they found it - mired underneath a six- metre- deep mountain of manure, enough to cover the 12- metre- long machine. Two people were arrested and are facing charges. Police had to call in an excavator to dig the bright red tractor free of its unsavoury surroundings. Still, it took them two long days to get it out. The job was every bit as unpleasant as it sounds, RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Line Karpish said on Tuesday. " Police work is glamourized in media," Karpish said. " But there's nothing glamourous about rooting around in manure. These guys deserve credit." The tractor's unlikely journey began on Dec. 21, 2010, when someone broke onto Leo's Sales and Service in the Rural Municipality of Rosser. The thieves hopped in the 2009- model Case IH Steiger 485 tractor, started the engine and drove the 23,586- kilogram machine straight through a fence to escape the property. They then drove the tractor across a field to the nearby road and loaded it onto a trailer before driving off. It's unknown if the tractor was ever put to use before it was hidden in the muck. " Maybe ( whoever stole the tractor) got scared, I don't know," mused Leo's salesperson Ryan Grandmont. " These machines, not everybody owns one, there's only so many sold. But why they put it in a hole, I don't know. It's almost like robbing a bank and then burning the money." Police investigated the theft in 2010 but ended up hitting a wall in their search, Karpish said. At Leo's, insurance covered the loss and staff figured the machine was long gone. They certainly didn't expect RCMP to phone eighteen months later with news. " It was funny, we couldn't believe it," Grandmont said, noting that nobody at Leo's could recall a similar case of such a large and distinctive piece of farm equipment being stolen. " The mood around here was laughable. Why a person would do that?" The tractor is back on the Leo's lot now, a stopover on its way to salvage. Meanwhile, a 24- year- old man from the RM of Fisher was arrested and faces charges of theft over $ 5,000, possessing goods obtained by crime and false pretences. A 22- year- old woman, also from the RM of Fisher, is facing a count of possessing stolen property. Both were released on a promise to appear. melissa. martin@ freepress. mb. ca Our community papers get a new look By Kristy Hoffman Offal hiding place By Melissa Martin Stolen tractor found under manure pile Top News A 3,4 Manitoba A 5,6 Canada / World A 7 World A 9 Editorials A 10 Letters to the Editor A 11 City B 1 Business B 5 Sports C 1 Family Notices C 8 Jumble C 10 Classified C 11 TV C 11 Entertainment D 1 Movies D 2 Horoscope D 3 Miss Lonelyhearts D 4 Comics D 6 Diversions D 7 Weather D 8 . COLUMNISTS Frances Russell A 10 Sel Burrows A 10 Stephen Maher A 11 Lindor Reynolds B 1 Maureen Scurfield B 2 BERNERT , Katherina. BORCIK , Emily. CHALMERS ( n�e BRAITHWAITE), Constance Joyce. CIAPUTA , Ivan ( John). CO , Josephine ( Josie). COULOMBE ( n�e GOULET), Germaine. DALMYN , Ron. DAVIS , Rev. William ( Bill) Henry Sr. GUIBOCHE , Jeannine. HANSON , Albert Stanley ( Stan). KANDEL ( WOLK), Angela ( Kendall). KOWALCHUK , Beverly Joan. KRAVETSKY , Ahuva. KRUIZENGA , Carl. 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P. sales Laurie Finley 697- 7164 Privacy policy and questions www. winnipegfreepress. com/ privacy. html CANADA POST SALES AGREEMENT NO. 0563595 Recycled newsprint is used in the production of the newspaper. Please recycle. REACH US DEATHS INSIDE LOTTERIES MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS John Kendle and Michelle Pereira with a revamped Metro. HANDOUT PHOTO The stolen tractor emerges from under six metres of manure ( above). A pristine model ( left). A_ 02_ Jun- 06- 12_ FP_ 01. indd A2 6/ 5/ 12 10: 37: 00 PM ;