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What’s happening today
🍀 Those so inclined may want to head down to the West End for an all-day St. Patrick’s Day party hosted by Manitoba’s Irish cultural community centre, 654 Erin St., starting at 11:30 a.m.
The Irish Association of Manitoba festivities will include an ecumenical service, Irish and set dancing, live music, bagpiping and traditional food available for purchase. For more information, check Facebook (@irishassociationmanitoba) or click here.
The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place on Saturday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
🍺 For this year’s roundup of St. Patrick’s Day beverages, columnist Ben Sigurdson has “gone with the theme of ‘green,’ tasting a half-dozen drinks either in green packaging, with green ingredients, featuring green flavours or even made using green (organic etc.) production methods.” Read his recommendations here.
📺 Bars across the city will no doubt be busy tonight, serving up pints of Guinness and drams of whiskey. But if you think a Tuesday night would be better spent without Celtic reels and copious amounts of alcohol, you can settle into your couch with any of these five suggestions from Free Press arts writers to get a dose of Irish spirit.
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Nashville Predators at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
The long-promised drug consumption site expected to open in the coming weeks has been delayed indefinitely, Premier Wab Kinew said Monday.
“I can’t really give you a timeline,” Kinew said at an unrelated event, when asked for an opening date. “I want this to be done right. I don’t want it to be done quickly.”
On March 5, Housing Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith said the province’s first supervised consumption site was just weeks away from opening in a mobile clinic parked at the west Exchange District site — a Henry Avenue warehouse — the provincial government purchased for a permanent facility.
Kinew said his government wants the facility to be a health services provider, and is asking the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, which has been chosen to run it, how it’s going to fulfil its mandate. Carol Sanders has the story.
There’s no timeline for the opening of the proposed provincial supervised drug consumption site in the West Exchange District. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A tech-savvy teen has coded a new tool to help teachers map out their classroom seating plans.
James Hohner, a Grade 10 student at Collège Jeanne-Sauvé, has dedicated much of his down time to developing a website (tools4teaching.online) this winter.
Born out of his boredom and eagerness to help others, the resource aims to simplify a tedious, albeit critical, task for educators of all kinds.
James Hohner, with language and technology teacher Alison Adachi, who inspired the project. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
“Having a good seating plan is make or break for a lot of learning,” the 16-year-old said. “It’s like building a foundation for your house.”
His website provides a blank, user-friendly template to begin construction; it allows teachers to upload class lists, draw desks of varying shapes and sizes and add custom labels to mimic any learning space.
James has been designing it with input from teachers at his high school, including Alison Adachi — a mentor who inspired the project. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
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