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What’s happening today
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and for those who celebrate, there are plenty of events on in the city (and not just today).
The Irish Association of Manitoba hosts its annual celebrations on Friday beginning at 10:45 a.m. at its home at 654 Erin St. with performers including its Irish Myst choir, the Flatline Ceilidh Band and the McDonell School of Dancers.
Eva Wasney has a story on cook Iain Graham’s preparations for Irish fare including stew, shepherd’s pie and colcannon.
Iain Graham with colcannon, a traditional Irish potato dish he makes at the Irish Association of Manitoba club every year for St. Patrick’s Day and Folklorama. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Sierra Sanders reports on how local restaurants and bars are getting ready to welcome back St. Patrick’s Day crowds in full force this year after two years of milder celebrations.
The Dust Rhinos play the West End Cultural Centre tonight at 8 p.m.
There are also events planned for Saturday, and the Irish Rovers play Club Regent Event Centre on March 22 beginning at 7 p.m.
Winnipeg Celtic group the Dust Rhinos (Supplied)
Unrelated to St. Patrick’s Day, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers is hosting a studio performance and artist talk featuring Christopher House, the award-winning queer choreographer, performer, director, educator and curator. House will be performing NEWS, a solo by American postmodern choreographer Deborah Hay. Rachel Brown Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
And Andy Shauf, singer-songwriter from Regina, brings his latest album/pal, Norm, to Burton Cummings Theatre, starting at 8 p.m.
Today’s must-read
It got a lot more dangerous to use Winnipeg’s streets last year, and the city’s police chief believes the record number of traffic deaths can be explained, at least in part, by pandemic-fuelled angst behind the wheel. Tyler Searle has the story.
Police investigate the scene of a fatal crash on Route 90 in Decembe. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On March 17, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported an informal meeting of 15 mayors and reeves agreed that the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg was a better name than Red River Metropolitan Association. The minister of agriculture said excavation on the Greater Winnipeg floodway would not begin until 1961 at the earliest., and would not be completed for seven years, perhaps even 10. In Washington, D.C., West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer made a surprise proposal that the people of West Berlin should be allowed to vote whether Allied troops would remain there, in a rebuke to Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev for trying to impose his demands on West Berlin. Search our archives for more here.
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