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Parts of Steinbach powerless Thursday morning
A hydro outage is impacting a large portion of Steinbach Thursday morning. According to Manitoba Hydro, the unplanned outage occurred at 7:37 am. Manitoba Hydro's outage map shows the outage is largely impacting customers south of Loewen Boulevard, west of Hespeler Street and northeast of Main Street. Manitoba Hydro says 1,026 customers are impacted. It says power should be restored by 10:30 Thursday morning. The cause of the outage has not yet been determined. Meanwhile, the Hanover School Division has indicated that Woodlawn Elementary School is impacted by Thursday's power outage. The division says that classes are running as scheduled, washrooms are functioning, and students have access to drinking water. Phone calls directed to Woodlawn School will be temporarily re-routed to the division office.