Your forecast
Showers beginning this morning, with a high of 15 C and a low of 9.
What’s happening today
The Crash Test Dummies take the Centennial Concert Hall stage with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra tonight and Saturday, both evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Pop band Crash Test Dummies will join the WSO at the Centennial Concert Hall this weekend. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The Winnipeg Wine Festival uncorks a weekend of sniffing, swirling and sipping at the RBC Convention Centre, starting tonight at 7 p.m. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
The Pineridge Hollow Fall Fair also begins today, with events starting at 10 .a.m, and continues throughout the weekend.
Today’s must-read
Amid increasing numbers of fires in vacant structures this year — as many as two or three a week in the spring and early summer — the fire paramedic service, the Winnipeg Police Service and the bylaw enforcement department got together to develop a new approach to deal with unused buildings. Erik Pindera has the story.
John Bernuy from Community Bylaw Enforcement Services (left), WPS Staff Sergeant Rob Duttchen, and WFPS Assistant Chief Scott Wilkinson check out a vacant building on Mayfair Avenue. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
Although a city curbside composting program is winding down next week when the two-year pilot concludes, residents who used it have been enthusiastic. “I’ve noticed a large decrease in the garbage going out,” said Mission Gardens resident Lisa Webinger. “I’ve actually started putting garbage out only once every two weeks. I’m going to feel guilty putting (green bin items) back in the garbage.” City council will study the program’s final report, with some councillors already considering citywide curbside composting.
Residents were given both a 120-litre curbside cart and a seven-litre collection container and were told they could dump in all food waste, as well as paper products soiled by food. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 23, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Soviet scientists retrieved their unmanned lunar orbiter from its splashdown in the Indian Ocean, after it spent a week circling the moon. The success was seen as another significant first for the USSR in the space race. In Winnipeg, six people were stabbed with a 10-inch knife in the cafeteria of the old Winnipeg air terminal building; police charged a man with assault. In Washington, D.C., 200 people walked out of three masses when Cardinal Patrick O’Boyle maintained from the pulpit that the recent papal encyclical against birth control must be obeyed. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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