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Today’s must-read
More children are showing up to kindergarten without being fully potty trained, knowing how to share with others or meeting early development milestones.
That’s according to the first study of school readiness in Manitoba in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kindergarten teachers collect data on the province’s youngest learners during the latter half of the school year via the Early Development Instrument, an internationally renowned reporting tool created by the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton.
The tool assesses five-year-olds in five categories: physical health; social competence; emotional maturity; language and cognitive development; and communication skills and general knowledge. Maggie Macintosh reports.
Deidre Sagert (left), an early years support teacher for the St. James School Division, and Brooklands School Principal Samantha Amaral. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Two ships that didn’t pass in the night resulted in a love story that is now 75 years strong.
Mike and Lenore Didychuk met after both survived the collision of the W.S. Newton and Luana III on Lake Winnipeg on Sept. 8, 1947.
“I never would have met her if my ship hadn’t sunk,” Mike, 96, said recently, while celebrating his 75th wedding anniversary with Lenore. “I remember that day like it happened yesterday. But my wife still says we haven’t been married 75 years — she can’t believe it — but it is true.” Kevin Rollason has the story.
Mike and Lenore Didychuk met after both survived the collision of the W.S. Newton and Luana III on Lake Winnipeg in 1947. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 3, 1937: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Winnipeg Blue Bombers hosted the Calgary Bronks at the Osborne Stadium. After a Soviet steamship was sunk off Skyros Island in the Aegean Sea by a submarine flying Spanish insurgent coulours, the British government sent additional warships to the Mediterrannean to deal with ongoing “piratical” attacks on shipping vessels. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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