Today’s top stories
Despite Brandon only receiving four centimetres of snow overnight, southwestern Manitoba remained under a yellow warning for snowfall on Wednesday, with another five to 10 centimetres expected. READ MORE
The Brandon School Division board of trustees has promoted the assistant superintendent to the division’s top job. READ MORE
The Brandon University Bobcats men’s volleyball team that shocked the country 11 months ago is looking to do the same, starting with Match 1 of the Canada West play-in series against the host Saskatchewan Huskies at 6 p.m. READ MORE
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Weather
THURSDAY: Periods of light snow. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. High -9 C, with -23 C wind chill in the morning. Low -19 C, with -28 C wind chill overnight. Risk of frostbite.
FRIDAY: Cloudy. High -12 C. Low -23 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High -13 C. Low -22 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High -15 C. Low -25 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A Toronto doctor is urging a legal abortion law, claiming that between 25,000 and 75,000 criminal abortions are performed yearly in Canada.
Brig. H.E. Brown of Brandon will retire this month after 27 years of service in the regular army. He began his military career with the non-permanent active militia in Brandon in 1928, and in 1932, was commissioned in the Manitoba Rangers. He joined the active force in 1940 and went overseas with the artillery.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The group occupying the 830 Rosser Ave. premises is the Manitoba Puppet Theatre. The director is Chris Hurley, and the group will be in Brandon for about four months.
Brenda Ross was chosen East End Community Club queen during the annual Winter Carnival. First princess was Anne Neale and second was Debbie Kamarous.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Scientists will know within a year whether a vaccine against AIDS is possible, says a leading United States researcher into the killer disease.
Irish rock star Bob Geldof and South African anti-apartheid campaigners Nelson and Winnie Mandela are among 85 nominees for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Today, a heavy, oversized two-tone coin sporting the Queen’s face and a bear on the backside replaces the $2 bill and becomes part of Canadian lore. The Royal Canadian Mint has struck 60 million new $2 coins for the launch.
Since Chinese New Year is a special time for her, Sue-On Hillman decided sharing her heritage with the public would make the occasion even more festive. So Hillman, proprietor of Soo’s Restaurant, staged a traditional dim sum brunch at her establishment yesterday morning. Today marks the official beginning of the Year of the Rat.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Overseas CFB Shilo troops will get a little taste of home sweet home in the next few weeks, thanks to the United Way. The United Way board volunteers and representatives from community business partners — including The Brandon Sun — will join together to package 285 care parcels for military personnel who have recently been deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The parcels will be trucked to CFB Shilo, prepared for shipping and put into the military air cargo system.
TEN YEARS AGO
One person is dead after a collision at an intersection south of Boissevain early Thursday afternoon. Mounties were called to the crossing of Highway 10 and Highway 3 at about 1:45 p.m, where a car had collided with a semi-trailer. First responders found the smaller vehicle crushed beyond recognition and wedged under the semi’s trailer. On Thursday evening, Manitoba RCMP media relations officer Sgt. Bert Paquet said one person died at the scene, but couldn’t confirm how many other occupants were in the car or the truck. At the time of the collision, the temperature was just above freezing, according to Environment Canada, with reports of fog in the area. The stretch of Highway 10 between Boissevain and the intersection, about five kilometres south of town, remained closed until around 9 p.m. — allowing first responders and collision analysts to carry out their work.
Community members welcomed a national memorial for missing and murdered Indigenous women into Brandon University with an emotional pipe ceremony on Thursday morning. The more than 1,800 vamps — the decorative tops of moccasins — that make up the “Walking With Our Sisters” memorial were brought to Brandon by volunteers from the touring installation’s last stop in North Battleford, Sask.
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