Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with haze. Expected high is 23 C, low 13, with a humidex of 25 and UV index of 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra is winding up its 50th anniversary season by time-travelling almost three centuries into the past. The orchestra will present Alcina, an opera by Georg Frideric Handel first staged in London in 1735. It fell into obscurity for two centuries before re-emerging into the contemporary opera lexicon in the 1960s. Location: Crescent Arts Centre, 525 Wardlaw Ave., tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, visit themco.ca.
Manitoba Opera 50th Anniversary Concert (Supplied)
Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s production of A Pickle, starring Debbie Maslowsky, opens tonight. Ben Waldman has a preview here; for more information on tickets and showtimes, click here.
Today’s must-read
A 14-year-old boy has admitted guilt in the slaying of a man that shocked the city and forced an overhaul of security measures at the Millennium Library. The boy, one of four teens arrested in the Dec. 11, 2022 killing of 28-year-old Tyree Cayer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder. Dean Pritchard has the story.
The Millennium Library (Mikaela /MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On June 15, 1953: The Winnipeg Free Press reported six Manitobans had been killed over the weekend in accidents, including four who died by drowning; two others were missing and presumed drowned. A 16-hour search in the swampy areas around Layland resulted in the discovery of a missing three-year-old boy, who had gotten lost after leaving a picnic, and had spent a mosquito-infested night in the open; he was tired and hungry but uninjured. In Winnipeg, fundraising reached $2 million of a targeted $3 million to go towards the Winnipeg General Hospital and the Children’s Hospital. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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