Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, clearing this afternoon. Wind becoming north at 30 km/h this morning. High 6 C, wind chill -8 this morning. UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
🩰 Tonight at 7:30 p.m., legendary prima ballerina and former RWB principal dancer Evelyn Hart will return to the Centennial Concert Hall stage for the 2025/26 season finale, reprising her role as Winter Woman in James Kudelka’s The Four Seasons. Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St. Tickets available online.
Evelyn Hart dances the role of Winter Woman in The Four Seasons. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Grace Livingston feared an unsuspecting pedestrian would fall and break their leg after she discovered a thigh-deep hole in the boulevard in front of her West End home last year.
Livingston said she is still waiting for the City of Winnipeg to fill the hole and eliminate the safety hazard, six months after she called 311 and emailed her councillor to raise concerns.
“I was hoping they would send somebody by or at least put up a barricade or something,” she said Wednesday. “How many times do people have to complain about something before they acknowledge it?”
Livingston contacted the Free Press about the situation after reading about the plight of Wolseley resident Christine Keilback, who fell shoulders-deep into a hole on a boulevard across from her Lipton Street home Saturday night. Chris Kitching has the story.
Grace Livingston shows the depth of a hole on the boulevard on Valour Road on Wednesday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
A small warehouse off Inkster Boulevard was bustling Wednesday morning as volunteers packed a shipping container full of donated medical supplies to send to a hospital in northern Sierra Leone.
The container, shipped by local organization International Hope Canada, is destined for Kabala Government Hospital, which serves Kabala, the capital of Sierra Leone’s Northern Province, and the surrounding region in West Africa.
International Hope Canada — a charitable non-profit, established in 1997 and run entirely by volunteers — sends used medical equipment and other health-care supplies to under-resourced hospitals and clinics in developing countries around the world, where such equipment is in short supply.
Abdulai Konteh, along with his wife, Kanko Mansaray, has been working with their community to gather money and medical supplies to fill a container which will be shipped to the Kabala Government Hospital in northern Sierra Leone. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
The shipment was sponsored by Kanko Mansaray, a health-care aide at the Health Sciences Centre, and Abdulai Konteh, who also used to work as a health-care aide.
“This will help save lots of lives,” said Konteh, as volunteers tightly packed the shipping container with boxes and hospital beds. “People are struggling.” Erik Pindera has more here.
On this date
On April 30, 1963: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier Duff Roblin told the Manitoba legislature the provincial government was forced to come to the aid of the San Antonio Gold Mines Ltd. because the company was milked of $165,000 or more by a Montreal man and some friends, before outlining a proposed $240,000 loan to the company’s mine at Bissett. Liberal leader Gildas Mogat opposed the proposal, saying the government should not “bail out” the company.
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