Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud. Wind from the west at 20 km/h. High 23 C. Humidex 28. UV index 6 or high.
Kelvin Siemens hoped he was dreaming when a tornado touched down near his home Sunday evening.
When he woke up the next morning, the southwestern Manitoba farmer confirmed it was no dream, as his barn and hay shed were toppled and a pile of rubble was left behind.
“This kind of devastation can really test your constitution,” Siemens, 65, told the Free Press from his farm just south of Kola, a small community in the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth. Malak Abas reports.
A tornado damaged several buildings on a farm near the community of Kola, which is just south of Elkhorn. (Kelvien Siemens photo)
What’s happening today
🎤 Speaking Crow, Winnipeg’s long-running open-mic poetry series, returns to the St. Boniface Library (131 Provencher Blvd.) tonight. Anucyia Victor Kitching (also known as Free Press arts and life writer AV Kitching) will headline the free event, which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. Sign-up for folks who want to read gets started at 6:10 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg teacher has been reprimanded for accidentally clicking “like” on a student’s year-old social media post during a late-night scroll.
A recent investigation by Manitoba’s independent teacher commissioner found Jordan Nelson, a hockey coach in the Pembina Trails School Division, engaged in professional misconduct by viewing online profiles of students who were following a team account he was managing on behalf of his school.
“Using information associated with the school’s hockey team account to access and review a student’s social media account, without any legitimate educational or workplace purpose, was inappropriate and inconsistent with the professional boundaries expected of a teacher,” commissioner Noni Classen wrote. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
(Free Press files)
On the bright side
Plans for an outdoor education facility that would host Indigenous and land-based learning for the Louis Riel School Division are moving forward.
The one-storey, 10,869-square-foot (1,010-square-metre) building would feature three classrooms, seven offices, multi-purpose rooms, workstations and common areas. The site would also offer an entry plaza and an outdoor classroom on 8.2 acres (3.3 hectares) of land at 3280 St. Mary’s Rd. in the St. Vital Perimeter South neighbourhood.
Existing buildings would remain and be used as a bus maintenance shop, outdoor material storage sheds and a covered outdoor work area. Joyanne Pursaga has more here.
Plans for the Louis Riel School Division’s outdoor education facility (Supplied)
On this date
On Sept. 1, 1939: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the German government had been warned unless its troops were withdrawn from Poland, Britain’s government would “without hesitation fulfil their obligations” to the invaded country. France’s ambassador in Berlin was instructed to deliver a similar message to the German government.
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