Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with 70 per cent chance of showers, and risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Wind from the south at 20 km/h becoming west 30 this morning. High 21 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
A retrospective celebrating the 30-year career of printmaker, ceramic artist and educator Inga Torfadottir continues at Soul Gallery, 65 Albert St., and runs until July 11.
The Reykjavik-born, Winnipeg-based artist has worked in a variety of media since completing her studies at the Icelandic College of Arts and Design and Reykjavik College of Fine Art before immigrating to Winnipeg in 1976 and pursuing a career as a ceramic artist and instructor at the Stoneware Studio.
Points on a Curve by Inga Torfadottir is at Soul Gallery until July 11. (Julie Walsh photo)
Today’s must-read
Twenty-eight people from 12 different countries took the oath to become a Canadian citizen at Assiniboine Park on Canada Day.
Soggy conditions moved the event indoors to the Pavilion.
Henry and Oreo Amogu received their citizenship side by side. The pair met in Nigeria but came to Canada in 2015 to study. Married in 2020, they decided to call Winnipeg their new home.
“I’m just filled with joy and excitement,” said Henry, 31, after the ceremony. “(Citizenship) just opens up so many thoughts, so many opportunities, so many options for us to explore now.” Jura McIlraith reports.
Henry Amogu, 31, (centre) participates in the oath of Citizenship with his wife Oreo Amogu, 31, (right). The couple immigrated from Nigeria to Canada. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On the bright side
As a child in Moose Jaw, Sask., Rick Felstead observed the satisfaction his dad got from volunteering with St. John Ambulance. When he was a teenager, Felstead joined his dad in the brigade and taught first aid until he graduated from high school.
It was the start of a lifelong commitment to volunteering that Travel Manitoba recognized in April when it named Felstead volunteer of the year as part of its tourism awards. Aaron Epp has more here.
Rick Felstead accepts a volunteer of the year award from Travel Manitoba. (Supplied)
On this date
On July 2, 1929: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ontario, drownings, automobile collisions and other mishaps brought the holiday weekend total of deaths to 27. In Regina, police sought the culprit or culprits behind fire damage to the wooden doors of the provincial legistature; authorities believed it was an attempt to burn the building down. Noted air pilot Wilmer Stultz was killed during a stunt flying demonstration over Roosevelt Field in New York. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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