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Manitoba Correctional Officer To Be Recognized With Lake

The Canadian Press, 19 Jan, 2016 12:09 PM
    WINNIPEG — Manitoba is recognizing a correctional officer who died on the job by naming a lake in her honour.
     
    Rhonda Commodore was a guard at The Pas Correctional Centre when she was killed in a highway crash while transporting inmates to Dauphin in 2014.
     
    Commodore Lake is 45 kilometres north of Flin Flon.

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