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What’s happening today
Summer brings the need for lake reads, and Toronto bestselling author Carley Fortune’s got just the thing in the form of her newest novel One Golden Summer. Fortune will be reading from her work at WAG-Qaumajuq, 300 Memorial Blvd., tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets are $33 and available online.
Carley Fortune (Jenna Marie Wakani photo)
Today’s must-read
Residents evacuated from wildfires near Lac du Bonnet are returning home to assess property damage and rebuild what’s been destroyed by the deadly blaze.
On Monday JoAnne Hirst was waiting to replace about a dozen fence posts at the edge of her pasture that was hit by fire nearly a week ago on Tuesday.
“I thought I was going to have roast beef out there,” she joked Monday afternoon, referring to her cattle grazing nearby.
Near the back of Hirst’s property, a patchwork of charred grass marks her property line. Water hoses snake through her field and are being used to control hot spots of the 4,000-hectare wildfire nearby. Nicole Buffie has the story.
The very edge of JoAnne Hirst’s property where the fire burned fences, grass and trees in Lac du Bonnet. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Mark McAvoy can’t imagine Siloam Mission without volunteers. “I don’t know how I could quantify what they do for us,” says McAvoy, volunteer services coordinator. “They are why we are able to exist.”
Volunteers assist with just about every service offered by the downtown organization, which helps Winnipeggers who are affected by poverty and homelessness. The non-profit has approximately 1,400 people on its list of active volunteers.
That list includes April Macaraig. The 37-year-old education student first stepped foot in Siloam in 2015, when her cousin organized a group for a one-day volunteering event. Aaron Epp has more here.
Sophie Rebizant (left) and April Macaraig both volunteer at Siloam Mission. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On May 20, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa the House of Commons considered shorter hours for Cape Breton steel workers and the general question an eight-hour day for all workers. In New York, a murder trial began in the case of a woman who had been shot alongside a deserted road, almost within earshot of her two young daughters and aged mother. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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