WINNIPEG When the Winnipeg Blue Bombers open their season on Aug. 5 at home to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the team will have a full-capacity crowd behind them. As part of the new health orders that came into effect on Saturday, the province announced that IG Field could have a crowd of fully vaccinated Manitobans. Children 11 and under, who are unvaccinated, can also attend the game as long as they attend with a fully vaccinated adult. This is leading to some concerns about the potential transmission of COVID-19 at games. Bombers fan Rick McIvor said he isn t ready to watch games in person quite yet.
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Over the course of the pandemic, the bottle of rum in our liquor cabinet has had to be restocked a few times.
But at no point in the rum runs to our local Liquor Mart was I thinking the distilled sugarcane juice would one day be the clearest sign the end of the pandemic was nigh.
Until today.
It was that all of the above and more cleared the way for the Rum Hut to be running at full capacity with no need for social distancing in lines.
At various points in the darkest days of the pandemic, our newsroom debated whether there would be a CFL season. We wondered how many fans might be allowed in the stands should the Bombers be cleared to take to the field again. At no point, however, did we ever consider the fate of the Rum Hut.