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Increasing cloudiness with a high of 29 C and wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h becoming west 20 km/h this afternoon. Hazy.
What’s happening today
After a nine-year recording hiatus, Winnipeg blues-roots-rock singer-songwriter Romi Mayes is back with Small Victories, her seventh full-length solo album.
Celebrate with Mayes at Friday’s hometown album release show, where she will perform alongside a who’s-who from the Winnipeg music scene who guested on the album: Chris Saywell, Twisty Fodey, Travis MacLean, Damon Mitchell, Joanne Rodriguez, Jaxon Haldane, Jason Nowicki and T.J. Blair.
Opening the show will be Thomas Cram and Mannon Smalley of Show Pony. West End Cultural Centre, Friday, July 26, 8 p.m. Tickets $25 plus fees at wecc.ca
Today’s must-read
What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but passengers aboard a sweltering, stationary Winnipeg-bound WestJet plane for five hours in stifling heat last Sunday were desperate to leave Sin City behind.
“It was a vacation of h-e-double hockey sticks,” said Mack Mroz, one of dozens stuck on the fully booked, un-air conditioned, not-cleared-for-takeoff flight in 40 C heat.
Kevin Rollason reports.
Passengers were stuck aboard a sweltering, stationary Winnipeg-bound WestJet plane for five hours in stifling heat last Sunday. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
Indie the cat did indeed come back, but it took her about eight years and a little help from the Ottawa Humane Society.
After years on the lam and with memories of adventures only she knows about, Indie the 11-year-old tuxedo cat has been reunited with her Montreal family after being found by a passerby in Ottawa.
How Indie ended up in the nation’s capital, 165 kilometres west of Montreal, remains a mystery. The Canadian Press reports.
Indie the cat. (Ottawa Humane Society / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On July 26, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that provincial Liberal leader Gildas Molgat charged that if the provicial welfare department would pay for welfare recipients’ travel costs to go to work, it had not informed social workers of the policy. A city health bylaw meant to protect consuers from buying uninspected meat was inadveetentl discriminating against small local meat-processing firms, officials agreed. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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