WINNIPEG – The 42 Manitoba Hydro workers who spent Christmas in Ontario are home again.
The crew of line men left Winnipeg for Toronto on Christmas Eve. They volunteered to work in Ontario over Christmas to help the area recover from an ice storm that cut power to more than 600,000 people the weekend before Christmas.
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More than 300,000 people in the Greater Toronto Area lost power on Dec. 21 and several dozen were still waiting to be connected on New Year’s Day.
The Manitoba Hydro workers returned home on Tuesday, a week earlier than originally expected.
Some of the line men planned to celebrate Christmas with their families when they returned.
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