Winnipeg Free Press By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 19, 2021
Move over Year of the Ox. The gardeners are taking over.
If the number of people tending plots at community gardens and greenspaces across the city in the past week is any indication, the pandemic-friendly pastime will be as popular in 2021 as it was last year, when Greenhouse Canada magazine declared 2020 the Year of the Garden in its September 2020 issue.
Barbara Ediger has had her hands in the soil long before gardening became a trendy pandemic activity. She has had a plot for more than 25 years at the Riverview Garden Society’s space between the Riverview Health Centre and the Red River shore.
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Brad Chute, co-owner of The Beer Can, says he wanted to make sure they were being good neighbours when they set up at the Granite Curling Club. That included reaching out to those living in a homeless encampment along the Assiniboine River. (Trevor Brine/CBC )
By just trying to be good neighbours, a pop-up beer garden in Winnipeg may have helped some people experiencing homelessness find a place to live.
When they chose to set up at the Granite Curling Club on Granite Way, just west of the Osborne Street bridge the owners of The Beer Can knew they would have to figure out how they were going to approach the encampment behind the club, says co-owner Brad Chute.
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Winnipegger Leona Fontaine, 48, says the federal budget does little to help improve her current situation. The single mother, who was working as an educational assistant in Winnipeg, was laid off from her job when the pandemic hit last year. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared last March and schools closed, Leona Fontaine quickly found herself without a job.
The Winnipeg contract educational assistant was laid off, and her position was later eliminated. I was shaking. I broke down. I was crying. I just didn t know where money was going to come from, Fontaine, 48, said.
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