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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Fraser Mason, owner of Sandy Lou's Diner, poses by his smoker in Winnipeg on Friday, May 1, 2020. The diner's only been open six months, but has already had its share of adversity, first getting into a dispute with their original landlord at a downtown hotel, forcing them to vacate that premises after only three months, then getting hit with COVID two weeks after opening at their second location, inside the LaSalle Hotel. For Dave Sanderson story. Winnipeg Free Press 2020