Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a high of 27 C. Hazy; chance of showers this morning with risk of thunderstorm. Humidex 32. UV index 6 or high. Low of 16 C tonight.
What’s happening today
This week, Winnipegger Marissa Naylor is representing Canada at the Pan Am Tenpin Championships in Reno, Nev.
Naylor, a member of the national senior team for three years, made her world championship debut in Salmiya, Kuwait, last year. Naylor won bronze in the women’s trios event with Canada’s Samantha and Jennifer Besana. She spoke to Mike Sawatzky before heading to the U.S. to compete.
Marissa Naylor (Jessica Lee/Free Press Files)
Today’s must-read
The largest renewable energy infrastructure project of its kind in Manitoba is happening at a St. Vital high school. Solar panels installed on the roof of Collège Jeanne-Sauvé are powering roughly 17 per cent of the high school’s total energy costs.
“These types of things should be a no-brainer,” said former principal Alain Michalik, who oversaw the project before retiring in the spring.” Maggie Macintosh reports.
Former principal Alain Michalik (right) and Amarbeer Bhandari, director of facilities, maintenance and transportation check out the solar panels. (Ruth Bonneville/Free Press)
On the bright side
A garden has sprouted at a Whyte Ridge church, and the fresh produce is being spread to five local charitable organizations. The St. Gianna Harvest Ministry garden is located on the grounds of St. Gianna Beretta Molla Parish, with about 30 parish members tending to it. They’re harvesting vegetables and giving them to Missionaries of Charity, the Bear Clan, Willow Place, House of Hesed and Bruce Oake Recovery Centre.
“It’s a way to share our blessings with those in need,” said Rod Cantiveros, one of the members looking after the garden. John Longhurst has the story.
Rod Cantiveros tends to the parish garden. (Mikaela Mackenzie/Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 19, 1925: Manitoba Free Press reporter E. Cora Hind wrote from Yorkton, Sask., on a tour from Winnipeg to Edmonton examining the state of prairie crops, that the area between Wynyard and Yorkton, although having seen expansion of wheat production in recent years, also saw some of the largest oat yields in the West. A Winnipeg city council committee debated for hours on the proposed pact between the Hydro Electric system and the Winnipeg Electric Company. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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