Your forecast
Freezing drizzle or periods of snow; fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this morning. High -7 C, wind chill -20 this morning and -15 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
🎶 Tonight at 7 p.m.: Organized by the Rainbow Harmony Project, One Gay Choir is a play on the One-Day Choir, which is exactly what it sounds like: in a few hours, a group of strangers comes together to learn and then perform an expertly arranged number.
All ages and skill levels are welcome, with pay-what-you-can tickets available for those who need. West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave. Tickets: $5 -$20
🖼️ Soulful Seasons: Transitions of Change is artist Jordan Miller’s first solo exhibition since retiring from gallery ownership after 18 years as the founder of Cre8ery Gallery and Studio. 210 Gallery, 210 Princess St., until April 4; Miller will be at the show until 9 p.m. tonight. All artwork is available for purchase.
Jordan Miller’s new exhibition Soulful Seasons: Transitions of Change opens Friday.(Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Our new One Day feature is just as it sounds: each month, we will spend one day documenting the everyday work that helps keep our communities going. This instalment, Melissa Martin spends time with Rev. Philip Malayil, a travelling minister willing to adapt to his expansive western Manitoba parish’s shifting demographics and linguistic needs.
With the sun still low on the horizon, Rev. Malayil begins his drive to Baldur, where he will perform the first of three Sunday masses. (Melissa Martin / Free Press)
It’s early on a Sunday morning. The city of Brandon is still sleeping. Downtown, across from the courthouse, the only sign of life stirs in the parking lot of St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church, as Rev. Philip Malayil climbs into his white SUV, ready to set out on his familiar journey.
The day before, the priest led mass in Rivers, about 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon; it’s one of four churches he serves in the sprawling parish. Today, he’ll tend the flocks at the other three. It’s a long day, one that will take him on a looping 210-kilometre journey: first to Baldur, then to Dunrea, and finally ending up back here, at St. Hedwig’s.
Read Melissa’s full story here.
On the bright side
While the Medicine Hat Tigers and Brandon Wheat Kings battled on the ice on Wednesday evening, the real drama was taking place behind the scenes as one Western Hockey League club came to the aid of another.
During the game, Medicine Hat’s bus driver suffered a medical emergency at a coffee shop on the Trans-Canada Highway and was taken to hospital by ambulance. That left the Tigers, who were in the midst of earning a 6-3 victory, with a locked bus that was running and no way to get the vehicle to the rink and no rooms to stay in that night.
Mike Filipchuk, who is Brandon’s vice-president of business operations, swung into action with the help of several other people. The Brandon Sun’s Perry Bergson has more here.
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