Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness this morning, with a risk of freezing drizzle, and fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 4 C, wind chill -6 this morning.
What’s happening today
At 1 p.m., the Freeze Frame International Film Festival presents Tough, an Indonesian (with English subtitles) live-action production following a 10-year-old boy with special needs named Tegar as he navigates his way toward attending school following the death of his grandfather. Centre culturel franco-manitobain, 340 Provencher Ave. Ben Waldman has more on the festival here.
M. Aldifi Tegarajasa stars in Indonesian film Tough. (Citra Sinema)
Today’s must-read
After hitting a large, hidden pothole on a scarred St. Boniface street Sunday night, Giuseppe Marino pulled into a parking lot and discovered he wasn’t the only victim.
Five other drivers were already parked with flat tires, while two more damaged vehicles had been left behind by their owners, he said.
Winnipeg’s 2024 pothole season got off to an early start thanks to the freeze-thaw cycle of an unusually mild winter. Drivers are feeling it in more ways than one. Chris Kitching has the story.
(Mike Sudoma / Free Press files)
On the bright side
For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred’s Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn’t control and sometimes didn’t come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the radiators ran so hot that residents had to keep their windows open in the middle of winter for relief.
That all changed a few months ago, when she got a window-mounted heat pump as part of a pilot project by the New York City Housing Authority aimed at cutting energy costs and lowering emissions. Suddenly, all Fred has to do is touch a dial to bump her temperature up or down, and she found herself enjoying “a very good silence.”
The NYCHA will evaluate results of the pilot project, with plans to eventually install more than 4,000 heat pumps over two years if all goes well. The authority expects to save money on operating and maintenance costs with the heat pumps, but is waiting to see for initial results before it projects those savings. The Associated Press has the story.
Decorations adorn one of Regina Fred’s window-mounted heat pumps in her apartment in the Queens borough of New York. (The Associated Press files)
On this date
On March 12, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that at the Mareth Line in Tunisia, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s sudden onslaught on the British 8th Army was meant to postpone the Allied invasion of Europe by a year; Allied bombers and fighters in the area were also attacking Rommel’s forces and supply lines. Also in North Africa, Winnipeg’s Flt. Sgt. Donald Niocholson, former Tribune police reporter, was shot down after an air battle, but made it through enemy lines back to his squadron. Germany admitted a defeat in its loss of the city of Vyazma, the last of its remaining anchor points of their salient pointing at Moscow. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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