Bridge could kill toboggan slide
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Bridge could kill toboggan slide
IT could be the final run for a Wolseley winter play area.
The recreational space, a popular toboggan hill on the edge of Wolseley near Omand’s Creek, could be in danger thanks to a city plan to build a $1-million bicycle bridge over the creek.
The city revealed the two bridge proposals to residents last week.
One would put a 75-metre bridge high over the creek, anchoring on what is now the toboggan hill on the west side and Raglan Road on the east. The other proposal would see the bridge farther south, taking away a section of the hill used by smaller children.
The bridge will replace an older, low-lying crossing point that is at risk of flooding in the spring.
A meeting with community members and city officials about the bridge is scheduled at the Portage Avenue Mennonite Church on Thursday (open house at 5:30 p.m; meeting at 7 p.m.).
50 seek place in Dragons’ Den
SOME inventive Manitobans entered the Dragons’ Den over the weekend.
The popular CBC television show, in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their product ideas and marketing concepts to a panel of business moguls with enough money to turn those dreams into reality, was in Winnipeg Saturday.
Fifty contestants auditioned for their shot at inventive success.
Among the ideas presented were eyeglasses that float in the water, a trailer hitch for dummies, furniture made from cardboard squares, and the Kandle — a plastic handle for your can of beer.
CBC will let contestants know if their ideas have what it takes by the end of the month. Roughly 4,000 apply to Dragons’ Den each year.
Cadets’ mentor, 84, honoured
A longtime mentor to thousands of Manitoba youth was recognized for his accomplishments Saturday.
Twenty friends and “adopted sons and daughters” gathered at the Pembina Place care home to honour Capt. John “Jack” Mowat with the Air Cadet League’s director emeritus award.
The 84-year-old, who grew up on Magnus Avenue, wasn’t just a cadet instructor. He flew over Normandy as a navigator in the Second World War and served as a commanding officer of the No. 6 Jim Whitecross Squadron for decades.
Mowat also co-founded the Manitoba Gymnastics Association in 1960. He was enshrined into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame for his efforts in 1988.