Your forecast
Sunny this morning, then a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming west at 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning. High 21 C, UV index 7 or high.
What’s happening today
The Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts continues at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, where artist Michael Lucenkiw will dive into the Environmental Machine Shop, described as an interactive artwork which encourages the reimagination of our relationship to the Red River. For more information, click here.
Shakespeare in the Ruins’ production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is on now until July 6 at Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park. Ben Waldman has a preview here.
The cast of Shakespeare in the Ruins rehearses at Trappist Monastery park this week, which saw challenging wet weather for the outdoor production. (John Woods / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Tucked into a booth at a bar somewhere in Manitoba in mid-March, Tristan Mariash and David Burling toasted to good times and being fresh out of jail.
Less than three months later, Mariash is dead after being shot by police in Otterburne and Burling is in custody, following a manhunt across Manitoba and Saskatchewan Wednesday.
Mariash’s family confirmed to the Free Press he was killed in the shooting. The Winnipeg Police Service had said officers fired shots when a stolen pickup truck rammed into their vehicle shortly before 3 a.m. Chris Kitching has the story.
RCMP forensics officers prepare to document the scene of the shooting in Niverville, on Wednesday. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf. They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.
“We kind of knew there could be one in the area,” Lundberg said in an interview, noting that as he kept fanning away sand from the tusk he found in April “it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I’m like, this is a big tusk.” The Associated Press reports.
A large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon found on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf coast. (Blair Morrow via The Associated Press)
On this date
On June 7, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the two U.S. astronauts aboard the Gemini IV spacecraft were picked up by helicopter after their craft landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. In Ottawa, defene minister Paul Hellyer announced the integration of the armed services into six commands with a new tri-service training command headquartered in Winnipeg. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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