Winnipeg Free Press
Community co-operation transforms stretch of Assiniboine into winter playground for skaters, skiers, sliders and strollers
By: Ben Waldman
| Posted: 7:00 PM CST Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021
Bev Findlay steps onto the Assiniboine River with a purpose — nay, a duty — in mind: she wants to find a shovel, and she wants to work until she can’t work anymore.
Bev Findlay steps onto the Assiniboine River with a purpose — nay, a duty — in mind: she wants to find a shovel, and she wants to work until she can’t work anymore.
In leather boots, woollen mitts and a dyed beaver-fur cap, each of her own making, Findlay climbs down the eroding river wall just east of Ferry Road on Sunday morning, skittering along the ice without falling.