Eight-year-old Zakkari Shlachetka had to be treated in hospital for multiple lacerations March 29 after a neighbour’s dog broke loose and attacked him on Batchelar Road in Wabowden.

According to eyewitness Mary Genaille, Shlachetka was returning from his aunt’s house across the street with his seven-year-old cousin in tow around lunchtime when the incident took place.

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“This yelling kept getting louder and louder, so I looked out the window and the boy was already on the ground,” she said. “And what it looked like to me is he was trying to protect his little cousin. He kept trying to block that dog.”

Even though the younger of the two children managed to escape, the medium-sized dog, described by Zakkari’s mother Brian Shlachetka as a pit bull, still did aWatch This GP3 Race Car Roll 3 Times at the Austrian Grand Prix

Dorian Boccolacci rolled his car on the final lap of the GP3 Sprint Race in Austria.

GP3, one of the feeder series for Formula One, was running this weekend at the Red Bull Ring. Besides fighting for victories in their own championship, these young drivers are still learning the craft of open-wheel racing while trying to get noticed by the F1 teams.

In the GP3's second race of the weekend, the 18-lap Sprint Race, Dorian Boccolacci most certainly got noticed by everyone in the Formula One paddock. On the final lap of the race, Boccolacci was running in eighth and tucked in right behind the car of Alessio Lorandi, Boccolacci cut out to the right to dive down