Your forecast
Mainly cloudy, with rain beginning this morning, amount 5 to 10 mm. High 10 C. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Zrada, self-described as “a kaleidoscopic journey through the dark heart of Ukrainian folk music (who) emerge somewhere in the cosmos,” and Tired Cossack, a band led by Stephen Levko Halas, who takes his musical cue from Cold War-era post-punk, Ukrainian folklore and shoegaze, play tonight at Times Change(d), 234 Main St., at 8 p.m. Tickets $19, available online.
Today’s must-read
Four teens — two just 13 years old — have been charged in a brazen daytime armed robbery at a Winnipeg Walmart, reigniting concerns over rising retail theft, violence and public safety in the city.
Winnipeg police held a news conference Wednesday to provide information about the incident that occurred around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Unicity Walmart, during which a security officer was nearly shot in the head with an airgun.
Two 13-year-olds — a girl and a boy — are among four youths facing armed robbery charges following a tense confrontation.
The 13-year-old boy, armed with a CO2-propelled airgun, fired at, but missed, a store security officer who had apprehended a teen accomplice, police said. Scott Billeck has the story.
The Unicity Walmart store at 3655 Portage Ave. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
On the bright side
Combined, the residents of Misericordia Place Personal Care Home have hundreds of years of life experience. And now, you can benefit from that wisdom directly via the newly launched Misericordia Place Life Advice Line.
Dial 204-788-8060, select a number from the menu of options and listen to recorded insights from the care home’s residents and patients on all of life’s quandaries.
Press “5” for advice from Nina, a 97-year-old (“Brush your teeth and listen to your mother”). Press “9” for advice from Bill’s dad (“Try to get a smile out of everybody”). Press “2” for dating advice from Susan (“Most guys out there are hopeless”).
The Life Advice Line is a project by artists-in-residence Francesca Carella Arfinengo, Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies, who have been running the program for the past 14 years with support from Misericordia Health Centre Foundation, Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Foundation and Artists in Healthcare. Jen Zoratti has the story.
Cheryl Towers, a Misericordia Place personal care resident who gave advice for the new advice hotline (centre), in her room with artists-in-residence Toby Gillies (left) and Natalie Baird. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 4, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported drenching rains would cost Manitoba farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars in grain grades and yields. In Clinton, Tenn., nine Black students went to class at a local high school while two-thirds of the 796 white students stayed away, even as militiamen, who had quelled a mob at nearby Oliver Springs, patrolled the area as anti-integration sentiments ran high. Escaped convict William Mullen, described as a “darned nice guy” by the Pierson, Man., farmer who aided in his recapture, was returned to Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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