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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Pet visits planned to de-stress 2017 Games athetes St. John Ambulance volunteers are ready to visit Athletes Village Canada Summer Games Team Manitoba softball athlete Shaye Kemball cuddles with Hank, a 7-year-old English Mastiff therapy dog at park along Waterfront Drive Monday morning. St John Ambulance volunteers take their therapy dogs commonly visit hospitals, university campuses, airports, to a number of other events and venues, where stress levels can be elevated like visiting Canada's best young athletes which is the first of its kind for the games. See Ashley Prest story. July 31,, 2017