Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon with risk of thunderstorms. Hazy. High 30 C, Humidex 35, UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
Super-Spike, Winnipeg’s largest annual outdoor volleyball tournament, returns to south St. Vital this weekend for two days of sport and live entertainment. Maple Grove Rugby Park, 90 Frobisher Rd.,Friday and Saturday.
Super-Spike offers volleyball action at the net and music onstage by Down with Webster and more.(Supplied)
Today’s must-read
A prominent Winnipeg businessman is behind an unlikely union between a local Juno award-winning band and a historic city church.
Mark Chipman, owner of True North Sports and Entertainment and the Winnipeg Jets, purchased the St. Michael and All Angels’ Anglican Church in June, which offered salvation to its struggling congregation in an agreement to use the church as a recording studio.
The Bros. Landreth, composed of brothers Joey and Dave Landreth, are moving into the space, which will also host their label, Birthday Cake Records. The musicians will share the church with the congregation. Tyler Searle has the story.
Joey Landreth (centre), Rev. Lauren Schoeck, and Dave Landreth in the sanctuary of St. Michael and All Angels’ Anglican Church. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
A team of Brazilian scientists has discovered a fossilized skeleton of what they believe is one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs after heavy rains in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul accelerated the natural process of erosion.
The fossil found next to a reservoir in the municipality of Sao Joao do Polesine is around 233 million years old, according to paleontologist Rodrigo Temp Müller, who led the team from the Federal University of Santa Maria that found the bones in May. The Associated Press reports.
On this date
On July 19, 1971: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Princess Margaret, accompanied by the Earl of Snowdon, would open the new Winnipeg Art Gallery on Sept. 25. The ongoing strike by the Bricklayers’ and Masons’ Union would continue despite recent offers from the Winnipeg Builders’ Exchange; the union buiness agent wanted to hold out for a provincewide contract. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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