Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm, but clearing this afternoon. Expected high is 23 C, low 9; humidex 25, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Mark autumn on the prairies with great fare and friends at FortWhyte Farms’ annual Harvest Supper at 5:30 p.m. Catered by Loaf and Honey, the proceeds from the supper support essential environmental education, immersive outdoor experiences, and hands-on employment training for youth.
Today’s must-read
When Scott and Anne Oake set out to establish a men’s-only addictions treatment centre in memory of their late son, Bruce, it came with the goal of one day opening a facility just for women. That day is drawing closer, after plans for a new women’s-only facility — named in honour of Anne, who died in September 2021 — were revealed at a charity event Tuesday night.
“The need (for treatment) is only getting greater,” Oake told the Free Press Wednesday. “Addictions are not going away.” Chris Kitching reports.
Rendering for the Anne Oake Family Recovery Centre, which will offer a residential addictions treatment program for women. (IRP Architects)
On the bright side
A University of Calgary study is looking into the effect of physical activity for young people with cancer.
Bridget Penney, mother of one of the children taking part, said she has noticed a difference compared to when her daughter began the program last November. “She wasn’t moving. She wasn’t doing a whole lot of anything. There were definitely days she was just not feeling up for anything,” she said. The Canadian Press reports.
Bridget Penney, left, and her daughter Mira Penney, 10, share a moment while taking part in an exercise session. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Sept. 14, 1957: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that according to a conference held in Winnipeg, low-cost housing could be built in the city, but not in the immediate future; restrictive building codes, the high cost of land and increasingly higher interest rates were among the obstacles identified. A visitor from Germany was admitted to an isolation hospital in Winnipeg, suspected of having Asiatic flu. In Brandon, an apparent dust explosion destroyed roughly 80 feet of a brick chimney on the Manitoba Power Commission building, killing two and injuring six. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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