Made in Manitoba

August is most certainly here in Winnipeg. The weather is warm, the mosquitoes are out, the BDI is open and construction abounds throughout the city. With these warm summery temperatures it is the perfect time to perhaps sit on a park bench or maybe stay inside and enjoy the air conditioning and read a good book.

Chris Hall from McNalley Robison Booksellers Stopped by our Classic 107 studios to give his book selections for What to Read for August. Here are his choices:

With these warm temperatures we have been enjoying it is clear that summer is definitely here. That also means that already, some tasty locally grown fruits and vegetables are starting to come into season and farmers are starting to sell the fruits of their labour to local businesses.

One of the businesses that has benefited from this boom of produce is St. Leon Gardens.

Starting tonight and going through to Friday June 9th, the Royal Winnipeg’s Ballet’s Anna McCowan-Johnson Aspirant Program will be showcasing their talents in a program that they call “On the Edge.”

After years of working towards answering a call from God, local artist Nathan Keys is anticipating the release of his first single to bring together church members in worship.

Nathan Keys grew up in a small town called Enniskillen, in Northern Ireland. He moved to Canada in 2007 when he was 14 years old.

For the past 16 years, he's been regularly attending a church in Winnipeg as part of the youth worship teams and now for the past 10 years, as a worship leader.

This Wednesday and Friday at 7:30 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society (WCMS) will be holding their annual mini concert festival that they call Mozart and More. Consisting of music of Mozart, these performances will also feature music of Kodaly, Shostakovich, Brahms and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.

Grace Olarinde is a gospel and inspirational singer-songwriter from Winnipeg who is using the hardships she's faced to give glory to God for always getting her through it.

Olarinde grew up in Nigeria where she met her husband and had four daughters. She's always had a passion for singing and participates in her church choir.

Before moving to Canada, Olarinde found herself extremely ill, to the point where she thought she wouldn't make it. She begged her husband to take care of their children if she passed.

April was a month of freezing and thawing that saw the roads here in Winnipeg turn into pot-hole obstacle courses. Hopefully this month of May will be considerably warmer and we will actually be able to get outside and enjoy a nice steak on the barbeque…with perhaps a little wine.