Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 72

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 72

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy, Natty Somers

Air Date: 04/06/2011 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
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Rebroadcast: 4/13/2011 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
On this weeks episode we talk about the following:

1) Local Concert & Event Listings.
2) Local news headlines.
3) Manitoba Flood Outlook #1 of 2011.

2011 FLOOD BULLETIN #1

* Manitoba Water Stewardship reports the weekend precipitation experienced in the Manitoba portion of the Red River Valley will have little impact on median or average scenario outlined in the March flood outlook of a slightly higher than a 2009 magnitude flood.

* At this time, the American portion of the Red River basin is just above flood stage. The Manitoba portion of the Red River is up 0.6 to 0.9 metres (two to three feet) since yesterday but the Red River is still below flood stage at most locations. The Red River is at 4.3 m (14 ft.) at the downtown Winnipeg James Avenue gauge.

* Currently, the crest in Fargo is expected between April 14 and April 21, in Emerson, between April 29 and May 5. It takes approximately two weeks for the crest to travel from Fargo to Emerson and another five to seven days to reach Winnipeg from Emerson.

* Temperatures are expected to climb above normal in the next four to five days.

* The short-term impacts of the weekend precipitation included a minor ice jam south of the St. Andrews dam briefly causing minor over-bank flooding in the Captain Kennedy Road area.

* The Red River may begin to naturally flow into the floodway channel later this week. Floodway operations will depend on the breakup of river ice.

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We'll continue to provide updates as they become available.

In other news, we discussed the launch of a new newspaper entitled Metro News, which is a daily newspaper distributed around the city at no cost to it's readers.  The newspaper chain is nations #1 free daily news paper brands, and reaches out to youthful active metropolitans (or yams) through various means of social networking.

On this weeks episode, we also talked about Charlie Sheen's My Torpedo Of Truth / Defeat Is Not An Option world tour as it had just opened in Detroit Michigan a few days earlier.

We discussed fans reactions to the opening show in comparison to his show 24 hours later in Chicago Illinois in which serious set changes were made.

According to initial reports, sheen reportedly pocketed $300,000 for the first of his two shows. His first stop was in Detroit Michigan where fans were reported to boo sheen off stage, at times demanding a refund to which sheen replied by saying "It's too late dude, I already have your money".

By Sunday, Sheen had changed the format of his show to a question and answer period with a unrevealed voice asking questions to sheen, with sheen answering in true tiger blood fashion.

In total, sheen spent only one hour of time on stage on which had fans wondering why they spent between $75.00 to $519.00

Sheen's tour will stop over in Toronto at Massey Hall on Thursday April 14th 2011, and will hit Vancouver's rogers arena on May 2, 2011.

As part of our World Beat segment, we introduced you to a band out of Edinburgh Scotland called Shooglenifty who are a six-piece Celtic fusion band. Natty recalled her visits with them at earlier Winnipeg Folk Festivals where she had a chance to hear them live.

We played a track entitled The Arms Dealer's Daughter off the album of the same name.

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We always welcome your suggestions and feedback to our show, and encourage fans to reach out to us. If you have a song that you'd like to request for our world beat segment, or a person of interest that you'd like to nominate for the people of your neighborhood segment, please feel free to reach out to us at info(at)wakeupwinnipeg(dot)com.

Tune in next week when we will interview Classified, and offer our thoughts on his upcoming Winnipeg stopover. 


Until then,

(c) 2011 - A. Valpy