Your forecast
Fog dissipating this morning followed by a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon with a high of 29 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers welcome the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to Princess Auto Stadium at 7:30 p.m. Get game-day ready with sports reporter Jeff Hamilton’s 5 Storylines.
Victoria science writer Nathan Hellner Mestelman lands at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 7 p.m., where he’ll launch his debut Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe.
The Morden Corn & Apple Festival begins today until Sunday.
Today’s must-read
A Transcona woman and her neighbour are unhappy after the City of Winnipeg ordered them to remove garden boxes and face ornaments from their boulevard trees, or face fines.
Joyce Maryk received a visit from a city arborist Wednesday morning regarding a report to the department about decorations on and around an American elm tree on her boulevard.
Maryk built a garden box around the elm’s base five years ago to protect the roots from her lawnmower and city-operated snowplows that nick the trunk every winter. The tree face was just for fun.
Nicole Buffie has the story.
Paige Johal (left) and Joyce Maryk were forced to remove tree decorations and a garden box along their Transcona boulevard after a visit from a City of Winnipeg arborist. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 23, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported astronauts aboard the orbiting Gemini 3 spacecraft began chasing a phantom satellite as they swept through the third day of their marathon eight-day space flight; the mission was a test-run for an upcoming flight in which the Gemini 6 craft would attempt to rendezvous with an Agena satellite. In Manitoba over the weekend, accidents killed 11 people, seven of which were automobile-related deaths. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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