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What’s happening today
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to be in Kelowna, B.C., for an announcement at a lumber facility on Tuesday after attending the Vancouver Pride parade on the weekend before he toured a Canadian Forces facility on Vancouver Island on Monday. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
For Manitoba seniors living in personal-care homes, mealtime should be highlights of the day. Many, however, consider them sources of distress rather than nourishment or comfort.
That was the finding of a recent Free Press article that found some of Winnipeg’s 37 personal-care homes provide food that is mass-produced in an off-site commercial kitchen, frozen and then reheated and served to residents.
The solution would be for every PCH to have its own kitchen where good, healthy and appealing food can be prepared. And that’s what happens in the majority of the 24 non-profit and mostly faith-based PCHs that are part of the Manitoba Association of Residential and Community Care Homes for Everyone.
For them, it’s a matter of food and faith. But it’s a challenge because of a lack of funding needed to ensure their residents get the best food to eat. John Longhurst has the story.
Gary Ledoux (right), director of Bethania Personal Care Home, and Delroy Clarke, director of food and environmental services, in the kitchen where staff are preparing lunch for care home residents. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
Frank Capasso has an impressive collection of awards for the volunteer work he’s done over the last 45 years, but he says recognition is not what motivates him.
“The feeling of giving back to the community makes me tick,” he says.
In recent years, Capasso has focused his efforts in Sage Creek, the southeast Winnipeg neighbourhood he moved into 13 years ago. Aaron Epp has more here.
Sage Creek Residents’ Association president Frank Capasso at the pump track named in his honour. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 5, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported in London, the Canadian minister of trade and commerce said that because Russian trading was done through a Soviet government organization, it would not be useful to send a Canadian trade commissioner to Russia. In Ottawa, a report compiled by the department of customs showed a dramatic increase in the volume of motor traffic into Canada; the number of such visits for 1921 was 617,385 compared to 93,300 in 1920. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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