Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. Expected high is 23 C, UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes play the Cleburne Railroaders at Shaw Park, starting at 6:30 p.m. Donald Stewart has a story on Goldeyes’ pitcher Marc-André Habeck and how he’s a crucial piece of his hometown team’s starting rotation.
The opportunity to play at home is a dream come true for Winnipeg Goldeyes pitcher Marc-André Habeck. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A prominent former high school football coach pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual assault in a Winnipeg courtroom Thursday, as disturbing details of his pattern of abuse were revealed publicly for the first time. Kelsey Albert Dana McKay, 52, admitted to sexually assaulting and communicating inappropriately with nine male teenagers. Katie May reports.
Kelsey McKay will be entered on Manitoba’s child abuse registry and will be listed on the national sex offender registry for 20 years. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said.
Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad in Sriharikota in southern India with an orbiter, a lander and a rover, in a demonstration of India’s emerging space technology. The spacecraft is set to embark on a journey lasting slightly over a month before landing on the moon’s surface later in August. The Associated Press reports.
Members of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) perform Hindu rituals for the success of Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 inside a temple in Mumbai, India, Friday. (Rajanish Kakade / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On July 14, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an unmanned Soviet spacecraft launched, heading for the moon, amid speculation the mission was meant to take the spotlight away from the Apollo 11 mission, and return to Earth with samples from the lunar surface; the Luna XV craft would reach the moon in three days, around the time three U.S. astronauts would launch to make the same journey. Prime minister Pierre Trudeau seemed to receive a cool welcome in Churchill, where members of the media outnumbered locals at the prime minister’s first appearance as part of a six-day tour of Western Canada. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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