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Mainly sunny. Wind becoming south at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 28C, Humidex 31. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes host the Sioux Falls Canaries at Blue Cross Park, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The owner of a vacant, boarded-up William Whyte home says he’s stuck with a building that keeps burning while he waits for the city to approve a demolition permit he applied for months ago.
A fire Saturday at 362 Manitoba Ave. was the fourth one at the building since March. It was brief and caused no injuries.
The owner applied for a demolition permit in May, with hopes of tearing down the home and selling the land. He’s been waiting to hear back from the city’s planning, property and development department since. Malak Abas has the story.
The house at 362 Manitoba Ave. has been vacant since March 27, after the first of the four recent fires broke out. (Nic Adam / Free Press)
On the bright side
The cat came back but it took five years. A volunteer from Winnipeg Lost Cat Assistance, a group that tries to return lost cats to their families, found Fluffy in a Winnipeg neighbourhood — nearly 250 kilometres from the Killarney home where he vanished — earlier this month.
Rosanne Turski, the group member who found Fluffy, said she was shocked to find out how long the senior cat had been missing.
“I’ve never lost a cat, so I couldn’t imagine what someone’s going through, first of all, when they lose a cat, and then searching and all these years go by,” Turski said. Jura McIlraith reports.
Bella is reunited with her cat Fluffy after he went missing five years ago. (Supplied)
On this date
On Aug. 13, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two Winnipeg boys, participating in a Canadian Army Service Corps cadet camp near Grand Beach, were missing and believed drowned. In Churchill, the first grain boats of the 1934 export and import season were expected to arrive. A St. Norbert man was killed in an automobile collision; the alleged driver of the vehicle was from Winnipeg and had been arrested. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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