The Wrap: A warning from the border, damaging golf drives, and a seafood joint for sale

Good evening. Here’s a look at what our newsroom has been working on today:

'We’re here today to relay the message to any would-be crossers that it is not safe. You can get severely injured, or you could die'

During a news conference in Grand Forks Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Manitoba RCMP officials revealed illegal crossings by foot have jumped drastically recently, from 90 people apprehended in 2021, down to 81 in 2022 and then up to 237 in the first eight months of 2023.

Erik Pindera:

Family’s tragic end, soaring number of illegal crossing attempts prompt warnings from both sides of border

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Illegal crossings at the Manitoba border into the United States have skyrocketed since an Indian family froze to death in a field near Emerson in 2022, raising fears other desperat... Read More

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'I do worry that somebody is going to get hurt by a flying ball'

A woman in Westwood says errant golf balls launched from a private course next door have been damaging her home. Karen Bryngelson is calling on Glendale Golf & Country Club to cover the cost of new siding for her home and install netting in a bid to prevent balls from leaving the course.

Chris Kitching:

Westwood woman living next to private golf club teed off over lack of accountability for ‘battered’ home

The siding on Karen Bryngelson’s house in Westwood is scarred by holes she says were caused by errant golf balls launched from a private course next door. Read More

'You never want to see a business go down'

Six months after opening, The Friskee Pearl is up for sale.

The downtown seafood restaurant — located on Main Street in the former Earls — is the brainchild of Chris Graves, who owns the King’s Head Pub, a longstanding establishment in the Exchange District.

Gabrielle Piché:

Friskee Pearl up for sale

Downtown seafood restaurant listed as ‘turn key operation’ Read More

'The style of leadership I’m going to bring is having that consistent effort every day'

It was a fitting setting for the next chapter of the Adam Lowry story, even if it didn’t include the Hollywood ending.

The veteran Winnipeg Jets forward wore the captain’s ‘C’ on his jersey for the first time in an NHL regular-season game Wednesday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome — in his hometown.

Ken Wiebe:

Lowry a natural leader

Jets captain has earned the ‘C’ Read More

'I don’t think any writer should stay in their own era'

Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, Learned By Heart (2023, HarperCollins Canada), is set at a York boarding school in 1805, where two very different real-life 14-year-old girls — brassy tomboy Anne Lister and Indian orphan heiress Eliza Raine — fall in consuming, passionate, secret love.

In advance of Donoghue’s appearance at McNally Robinson on Monday, Oct. 16, as part of Thin Air: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival, the Free Press spoke to Donoghue about Anne Lister and Eliza Raine, LGBTTQ+ stories (and book bans), and the pull of the past.

Jen Zoratti:

Voices across time

Author Donoghue revels in liberating and bringing new life to stories from the past Read More