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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Gretna MB Carolyn Ryan with Manitoba Houseing, goes through some donations of hygiene items and teddy bears that were made by locals in the community in one of the rooms that will be used to house new refugee claimants Thursday. The province opens a temporary shelter for refugee claimants near the border in Gretna to ease the flow of asylum seekers arriving in Winnipeg at all hours needing housing and help. Gretna's former seniors home that has been sitting vacant is being repurposed to house asylum seekers for a few days before they can move on to more long-term shelter in Winnipeg. See Jane Gerster story. May 04, 2017