Blowing snow cancels classes at several Manitoba schools

Classes are cancelled at a number of schools in southern Manitoba, where blowing snow has created dangerous driving conditions.

There is no school Thursday at any of the following schools and divisions:

• Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna
• Borderland School Division
• Red River Valley School Division
• Garden Valley School Division
• Western School Division

About half of the schools in the Prairie Rose School Division are closed. They include:

• Carman Collegiate
• Carman Elementary
• Elm Creek School
• Miami School
• Roland School
• Hutterian Colony sites: Eagle Creek, Maple Creek, Skyview, Rosebank, Boyne View, Blooming Prairie, Clearview.

Several highways also wereclosed due to the conditions, including Highway 75fromWinnipeg to Emerson at the U.S. border.

The closures began Wednesday night and all of the highways reopened before 9 a.m. on Thursday.