Today’s top stories
The 11 members of Brandon City Council earned a collective $374,839.09 in salary and other compensation last year, according to the city’s annual disclosure report. READ MORE
Wearing green, gold and black clothes and waving flags, members of Brandon’s Jamaican community celebrated the 62nd Jamaican Independence Day on Tuesday. READ MORE
When Westman Heat head coach Bob Birch thinks about his under-17 AA provincial championship team in the future, he’ll have no shortage of positives to remember. READ MORE
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Weather
WEDNESDAY: Mainly cloudy. Clearing in the afternoon. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. Wind becoming north 20 km/h in the morning. High 19 C. Low 8 C.
THURSDAY: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of showers. High 19 C. Low 9 C.
FRIDAY: Sunny. High 21 C. Low 8 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High 23 C. Low 10 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The Peter Middleton Cup has been awarded to Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Pue of 3305 Rosser Ave. for the best arranged and kept home grounds from the Brandon Horticultural Society. Runners-up in the competition were E. Senkbeil, 229 25th St., and C.R. Birch, 105 Madison Ave.
A bid of $142,855 was the lowest of five received by the department of citizenship and immigration for construction of an addition to the Brandon Indian Residential school. The project will increase dormitory space at the school and provide new washroom facilities. It will be for occupancy in the fall of 1965.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A new intersection at 18th Street and Victoria Avenue opened for traffic yesterday. The intersection, rebuilt by the Manitoba Department of Highways to accommodate left turning traffic and provide right turning lanes, will now be open to north-south traffic and traffic moving to and from the east side of the intersection.
Linda Bird of Brandon was the winner of a recent vegetable and flower garden competition for children under 16 years of age.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A string of arson fires in Dauphin continued over the weekend as an arsonist touched off a fire in Dauphin that caused about $100,000 to Felix Sales and Service Ltd.
Approximately 700 bareheaded bikers paraded down Memorial Boulevard in Winnipeg on the weekend to protest a provincial law requiring them to wear helmets.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A $4-million crop diversification facility — a legacy of former federal cabinet minister Charlie Mayer — was officially opened yesterday near Carberry.
A surge in exports to the United States has prompted Nestle-Simplot Foods to build an $8.6-million warehouse at its potato-processing plant at Carberry.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Downtown merchants are fuming at Brandon City Hall after discovering a public parking lot on Seventh Street and Rosser Avenue will no longer be available to their customers. Last Friday, signs were installed at the city-owned lot telling motorists they could no longer park there. The lot is now being used by employees of Brandon Fire Department’s No. 1 Station, and nearby merchants say they were given no warning this was about to happen.
The people who run Brandon’s new baseball complex are left wondering what to do next after being hit with a massive tax hike by the city. Simplot Millennium Baseball Park, a new facility east of Brandon, faces an $11,000 tax bill after being reassessed by the provincial government earlier this year.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Brandon University Students’ Union has unveiled an all-Canadian list of performers for this year’s Rock the Block. Taking the stage on Rosser Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets on Sept. 5 will be Canadian singer-songwriter Alyssa Reid, Canadian pop band These Kids Wear Crowns and Canadian rock group Trooper.
The city has offered to purchase a plot of land from a homeowner who has spent more than 10 years battling flooding she believes the city caused. But Jean Halliday, who lives on 16th Street North behind Lady of the Lake, said she won’t accept the $95,000 offer to buy her single-storey home.
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