Today’s top stories
Stopping train whistles near the Wheat City Golf Course would cost the City of Brandon more than $50,000, council heard this week. READ MORE
The newest emergency department physician hired to work at Brandon Regional Health Centre was trained in the United States but was born and raised in Manitoba. READ MORE
Filip Ruzicka is starting to feel at home with the Brandon Wheat Kings. The six-foot-seven, 230-pound netminder from Trinec, Czechia, whose English skills are rapidly progressing, said his teammates certainly made him feel like he belonged. READ MORE
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Weather
FRIDAY: Sunny. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 15 C. Wind chill -6 C in the morning. Low -1 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High 19 C. Low 6 C.
SUNDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 18 C. Low 4 C.
MONDAY: Periods of rain. Windy. High 12 C. Low 2 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Six perfect scores were recorded in last week’s regular shoots of the Brandon City Police Boys Rifle Club. Perfect scores of 100 were shot by Bruce Hoffman, Barry Matchell, David Miller, Cyril Pollet, John Robinson and Bob Tait.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Shareholders of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba were presented last night with a balance sheet showing a profit of $14,486.49 on the 1964-65 operations and a new secretary-manager, Howard Gillam.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Three men — Lawrence G. Macpherson, Grettir L. Johannson and Harry B. Hawthorn — are to receive honorary doctor of laws degrees from Brandon University at the fall convocation exercises this weekend.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The body of a man killed by a hit-and-run driver was found on the Braecrest Drive bicycle path just east of 18th Street.
In a municipal referendum held in Langford yesterday, voters decided 238 to 16 to allow a bylaw authorizing the sale of liquor in the RM, which is located south of Neepawa.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The road to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, will cut through the Wheat City. Brandon has been approved as the host site for the Canadian curling team trials, to be staged at the Keystone Centre in late November 1997.
Students and staff at Betty Gibson School spent yesterday afternoon without heat and lights after the hydro cut out due to a transformer failure.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Eight inmates escaped an Ohio gas chamber and arrived safe and sound in Brandon yesterday. The condemned prisoners — death row dogs — travelled with their rescuer, Dana Grove, a member of Funds for Furry Friends, in a van from a safehouse in North Dakota to a temporary home in the Wheat City.
The former Walmart location at Shoppers Mall is currently being renovated for the new Zellers store, which is expected to open in the spring of 2006.
TEN YEARS AGO
Two years of construction is set to begin on the First Street bridge. Motorists will notice detours and barricades set up in the area, in preparation of the project that will see the existing bridge replaced with two new structures. Traffic flow is now reduced from four to two lanes on First Street between Princess Avenue north to Kirkcaldy Drive, due to the closure of the median lanes.
An “ultra-fast and precise” laser system that prepares the eye for cataract surgery and cornea transplantation has been unveiled at Brandon Regional Health Centre. The new equipment has been installed thanks to a private-public partnership between Prairie Mountain Health and Brandon ophthalmic surgeon Dr. Guillermo Rocha.
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