Your forecast
Sunny with wind becoming north 20 km/h this morning. Expected high is 23 C, low 7, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Four Crowns Street Food Party, providing a venue for a multitude of food truck vendors after the cancellation of ManyFest this year, runs from today until Sunday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily, at 1030 McPhillips St.
(Jen Doerksen / Winnipeg Free Press)
The Manitoba Fibre Festival kicks off at Red River Exhibition Place, 3977 Portage Ave., and continues Saturday. At this year’s festival, attendees can get their hands on nine batches of naturally dyed and non-superwash Canadian wool yarn dyed with locally grown black knight scabiosa flowers by sunflower knit’s Ash Alberg and harvested by Big Oak Farm’s Jennifer deGroot.
Today’s must-read
William Ahmo, a Headingley Correctional Centre inmate critically injured during a violent confrontation with jail staff died from a heart attack after he was left struggling to breathe, a trial heard Thursday. Ahmo, 45, died Feb. 14, 2021, seven days after he was injured in the common area of his unit during a prolonged standoff with corrections officers. Corrections officer Robert Jeffrey Morden, who led the emergency response unit team that ultimately took Ahmo down, is on trial charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide necessities of life. Read the full story here.
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On the bright side
At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls someone might have worn as showy jewelry 1,500 years ago. The rare find was made this summer by 51-year-old Erlend Bore on the southern island of Rennesoey, near the city of Stavanger. Bore had bought his first metal detector earlier this year to have a hobby after his doctor ordered him to get out instead of sitting on the couch. The Associated Press reports.
Erlend Bore poses with the gold treasure he discovered with a metal detector on the island of Rennesoey in Stavanger, Norway. (Anniken Celine Berger/Archaeological Museum, UiS via NTB via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 8, 1966: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that three of four inmates who had escaped from Headingley jail the previous Saturday and stolen a plane in Steinbach had been photographed when they landed at Tyler, Minn., later the same day, needing to refuel and posing as cattle buyers. In Waterloo, Ont., Winnipeg’s Dr. Wilfred C. Lockhart was elected moderator of the United Church of Canada. At the Commonwealth conference in London, the prime minister of Singapore urged the creation of an African “Viet Cong” organization to wage war in Rhodesia. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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