Your forecast
High of 25 C. Mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this afternoon; Air quality issues expected owing to local smoke this afternoon. Today’s UV index is 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Goldeyes are on a stretch of home games, taking on the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks tonight in the first of three challenges. Tonight’s start time is 6:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Mynarski Coun. Ross Eadie is prepared to exhaust his ward’s community fund — transferring roughly $45,000 to $50,000 — to support St. Boniface Street Links in dealing with the growing encampment issue in North Point Douglas.
“I shouldn’t have to, as other needs in my ward need this money, but my residents have spoken,” Eadie wrote, later telling the Free Press he’s dealing with the “immediate need” in his ward. Scott Billeck has the story.
On the bright side
Two-time cancer survivor Jon Fenton is planning to swim from Victoria Beach to Gimli to raise money for medical research. The 61-year-old is hoping to embark on the 26-kilometre journey in August.
“If they see an old geezer getting into the water to attempt to cross a lake, maybe they’ll think, ‘If he can go through it twice, maybe I’ll be all right,’” he told the Free Press. Matthew Frank reports.
Two-time cancer survivor Jon Fenton, 61, is embarking on a 26-kilometre swim to raise money for cancer research. (Supplied)
On this date
On July 28, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported the United Weston football club of Winnipeg, after many years of vying for the Connaught Cup, realized its ambition when it held the Canadian Explosives of Montreal to a draw, thus winning the series and capturing the trophy emblematic of the Dominion football championship. In Geneva, the League of Nations predicted a quick return to the prewar system of worldwide alliances that led to the conflagration of 1914-1918. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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