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A mix of sun and cloud, with wind becoming north 20 km/h near noon. High 19 C, UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Canadian science fiction novelist Robert J. Sawyer launches his 25th book, The Downloaded, the story of astronauts and prisoners whose minds are uploaded into a computer, only to be downloaded 500 years later to find the sole survivors are members of a Mennonite community. McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park location, 7 p.m.
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Dolly Charlette couldn’t help but cry Sunday morning as she returned to her home in Cranberry Portage, a little more than one week after she and hundreds of residents fled from an out-of-control wildfire encroaching on the community.
“I was so overjoyed that I got to come home and the town looked normal,” Charlette said by phone, describing how a group of firefighters formed a welcoming party to greet evacuees as they arrived. Tyler Searle has the story.
Residents forced to evacuate their homes due to wildfires near Cranberry Portage were permitted to go back to the community Sunday morning. (Neena Lundie photo)
On the bright side
This past weekend marked 50 years since Darrin Davis was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. “I’m fortunate because I don’t have any complications,” the River Heights resident says. “I’ve been able to continue to have the life I want to have while managing diabetes.”
“I’ve seen the way it has ravaged some of my friends’ bodies,” Darrin says. “That’s not me. So I feel compelled to give back.”
The civil servant and father of three does that through his volunteer work with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada, an organization dedicated to funding Type 1 diabetes research. Aaron Epp has more here.
Darrin Davis (Mke Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On May 21, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported the findings of a royal commission on grain rates on the Great Lakes confirmed every point made in charges made first in a Free Press report the previous autumn, particularly that a combine was operating to fix rates without consulting shippers or producers. In Rome, an international conference on women’s suffrage, attended by 1,000 representatives, was met by a renewed pledge from Italian leader Benito Mussolini to extend to women the right to vote. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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