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Increasing cloudiness, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries or rain showers this afternoon. Wind becoming south at 20 km/h then increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 3 C, wind chill -18 this morning. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba is hosting its annual Stone Soup fundraiser starting todday and running until March 29.
Inspired by the folk tale of the same name, the event sees restaurants across the province serving specialty soups and donating $1 per bowl sold to the council. Last year’s effort raised more than $46,000 for school meal and snack programs. Visit childnutritioncouncil.com for details.
Eat soup for a good cause during the annual Stone Soup Week fundraiser. (Brook Jones / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Snapshots of downtown Winnipeg cover a wall.
They aren’t pictures — they are screens of security footage down Portage Avenue, by True North Square, off Smith Street.
Nearby, a Downtown Community Safety Partnership staffer takes calls. They might change the view on the mounted screens, flipping between 49 security cameras.
Downtown Community Safety Partnership executive director Greg Burnett in their command centre, where the new Beacon program is used. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Downtown organizations and private businesses are increasingly linking their exterior security camera feeds to a central hub in the DCSP office. It has been using the footage to track issues such as opioid poisonings, and keep an eye on people who may need a mental health check, over the past couple years.
Now the program, titled Beacon, is ready to level up: both the City of Winnipeg and Winnipeg Police Service are preparing to add cameras. Those, in addition to more users, could bring the total camera count above 100. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
On the bright side
Emily Kosack walks at Holy Family nursing home every day from 2-3 p.m.
She covers a distance of nearly four kilometres on her daily rounds, a broad smile on her face as she greets residents, staff and visitors.
Although she recently injured a hip, Kosack is still able to stroll swiftly, thanks to her red walking aid, which she playfully refers to as her “boyfriend.”
This year marks her 34th year volunteering at Holy Family; she started in 1992, when visiting her late mother Margaret, who was a resident at the nursing home. AV Kitching has more here.
Emily Kosack began volunteering at Holy Family in 1992 when visiting her mother, and this year marks her 34th year of volunteer work there. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
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