Today’s top stories
A defence lawyer brought a bullet-ridden door into Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench on Wednesday as evidence during a trial for a man accused of firing a gun into the bathroom door his ex-girlfriend was hiding behind. READ MORE
The name of the game was “breed” for many cattle producers at Manitoba Ag Ex on Wednesday — a chance to show off their stock, plant their flag in the dirt and attract new customers. READ MORE
If you watched Elli Pomehichuk play without seeing the scoreboard, you’d have no idea if it was the first point of a match or match point. The six-foot middle blocker is as stoic as she is dependable, even though she’s still just a junior on the Neelin Spartans varsity girls’ volleyball team. READ MORE
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Weather
THURSDAY: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 near noon. High 5 C. Low 1 C.
FRIDAY: Cloudy. High 4 C. Low -7 C.
SATURDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 8 C. Low 3 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. Windy. High 10 C. Low -5 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A new bridge spans the Assiniboine River seven miles north of Glenboro on Highway 258. The bridge, 402 feet in length, was officially opened by Walter Weir, Manitoba minister of highways.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Donna Jones and Bob Partridge, two active duplicate bridge players from Brandon, travelled to Regina last weekend and captured the open pairs trophy at a three-day competition.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Manitobans will be paying more for their favourite domestic brew next week, the provincial Liquor Control Commission announced. Most Canadian bottled beer will increase by 10 cents a six-pack to $4.70. A dozen bottles will cost $9, a hike of 15 cents. Six regular-size tins of most brands will go up 10 cents to $5.10. The refundable deposit of 10 cents a bottle and five cents a tin remains unchanged.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Financial markets have cleared the way for lower interest rates and a stronger economy by applauding the narrow defeat of the Quebec separatists. The Canadian dollar rose to 74.85 cents US.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The International Peace Garden is the designated recipient of $3.7 million in Canadian funds from the governments of Canada and Manitoba, money that will go toward design studies and construction costs for a new sunken garden and interpretive centre. Money won’t be spent until matching funds have been raised on the U.S. side of the border.
For the second time in eight days, heavily armed police officers surrounded a home yesterday and waited for several hours before storming in and detaining two suspects. Carrying automatic rifles, submachine-guns and shotguns, members of the Brandon Police Service’s Tactical Response Unit took strategic positions around an apartment building in the 200 block of 17th Street North.
TEN YEARS AGO
Police say that it was advances in DNA testing methods that resulted in a “hit” that identified a suspect in the December 2011 abduction and sexual assault of a five-year-old boy. Initially, samples sent to a forensics lab couldn’t be matched, but city police received word of a match sometime last week after another attempt.
Agriculture leaders are anxious to see who will be tapped to lead the sector in prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau’s Liberal caucus. Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Melinda German said the organization doesn’t actively lobby for a specific person, but hopes that whoever is thrust into the role of agriculture minister continues to push for free trade for the industry.
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