Today’s top stories
Assiniboine College unveiled the Auriat Family Broadcast Studio on Friday, after a $25,000 donation from the family to support media education and community broadcasting. READ MORE
A Westman reeve says ER closures over the holiday season is “nothing new” after the regional health authority posted that 11 emergency departments will have limited hours next week. READ MORE
Joby Baumuller scored in overtime as the Brandon Wheat Kings finished the first half of the season with a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Hitmen in Western Hockey League action at Scotiabank Saddledome on Friday afternoon. READ MORE
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Weather
SATURDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. Wind northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light in the afternoon. High -17 C, with wind chill -33 C in the morning. Low -28 C, with wind chill -37 C overnight. Risk of frostbite.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High -17 C. Low -20 C.
MONDAY: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries. High -9 C. Low -25 C.
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -14 C. Low -16 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Additional postal service in Brandon’s rapidly expanding west end was advocated last night at a regular meeting of city council. Mail deliveries are badly needed in the west-end district beyond 26th Street, where at the present some 180 homes are not receiving the service.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
An 810-pound and a 480-pound moose were shot in the Dauphin area by Kelly Taylor and James Olive, both of Oak Lake.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
City council has decided to ask the provincial highways department to rebuild 18th Street north of the Daly Overpass, with medians, boulevards and proper access roads and that the highways department will do the work in 1976.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon School Board has approved an 8.5 per cent increase in its 1986 preliminary budget without knowing where the extra money is coming from. Trustees voted unanimously for a 1986 budget of $25,670,300 — up more than $2 million from this year’s budget of $23,601,110.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Health Minister Jim McCrae wants to avoid having vacant buildings where hospitals used to be, but he said there is no doubt changes to rural hospitals are forthcoming. He declined to use the word closures, but said “re-scoping” would definitely take place.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
One of the smallest schools in Westman has been saved from the executioner’s axe after trustees from Park West School Division voted to take Kenton school off review — for now. Kenton school was in danger of closing after the school board decided to put it up for review this spring. A division bylaw states that once a school’s student population falls below 30, it has to come under review for closure. The mixed-grade school has 32 students, three teaching assistants, one full-time teacher, two teachers with a three-quarter schedule and one part-time music teacher.
It may be no surprise to Manitobans, but the cost of living in the province is far below what other households in Canada are paying for a mortgage, food, taxes and insurance. Statistics Canada reports that the average Canadian family spent $63,640 on household expenditures in 2004. Manitobans spent about $7,300 less. On average, Manitoba households spend less on taxes, transportation, recreation, utilities, clothing, furniture and health care. But they tend to spend more on gambling, booze and cigarettes.
TEN YEARS AGO
Walk in the front doors of Betty Gibson School and one of the first things you might notice is a framed picture that was taken at the beginning of the school year. While there are 24 students in the photo, this isn’t your average class picture. It’s a celebration of the 12 sets of twins enrolled in the kindergarten to Grade 8 school this year.
Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died of a toxic mix of drugs that included cocaine, according to a medical examiner’s office in Minnesota, where he was found dead on his tour bus in early December.
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