Today’s top stories
A refrigeration failure at the Brandon Curling Club has forced a last-minute venue change for two provincial championships and cut the club’s season short at the Keystone Centre. READ MORE
More than 75 Ukrainians and residents, young and old, gathered Sunday afternoon for a peaceful Walk in Support and Solidarity with Ukraine, expressing support with the community and their homeland. READ MORE
A local chess leader is set to represent Canada on the world stage this summer, and he is asking the community to help him get there. READ MORE
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Weather
MONDAY: Mainly cloudy. High -11 C. Wind chill -29 C in the morning and -18 C in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. Light snow beginning near midnight. Low -12 C. Wind chill -20 C overnight.
TUESDAY: Sunny. High -13 C. Low -25 C.
WEDNESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -10 C. Low -9 C.
THURSDAY: Sunny. High 0 C. Low -7 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The Soviet Union launched two dogs into space in a project that may eventually place dogs on, or in orbit, around the moon.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Premier Ed Schreyer decided he would like to stay on in Manitoba politics and lead the NDP into the next election.
City council voted in favour last night of authorizing city solicitor Frank Meighen to finalize agreements with federal and provincial authorities to get the Neighbourhood Improvement Program going.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Riding Mountain National Park and its surrounding municipalities will join a select network of more than 200 similar regions worldwide in April when it is declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations. The designation, only the third in Canada, officially recognizes the park area as a distinct geographic region worth studying and preserving.
Margaret-area farmer Ross McMillan will run for the Liberals in Turtle Mountain in the provincial election.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A row of five grain elevators at Inglis has been designated a national historic site by the federal government. The five wooden elevators, built between 1922 and 1941, are the only intact ones in Manitoba that are complete with outbuildings such as sheds, bins, storage units and offices. They are intact both structurally and mechanically.
Employees and taxpayers took the hardest hits in the school division budget session yesterday. Brandon trustees trimmed $300,000 from payroll costs, $100,000 from equipment and supplies and increased the local education tax two per cent.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Entry to pavilions will remain free next year, says the Lieutenant Governor’s Winter Festival committee, despite suggestions that a small admission charge might curtail long lineups and overcrowding. The festival committee met this week to review this year’s event — the third annual — which was a smash hit with 40,000 visits to 13 pavilions compared to slightly less than 20,000 to 12 pavilions in 2005.
A Westman woman and graduate of Assiniboine Community College is one of five appointments to the newly formed Manitoba Biodiesel Board. Marg Rempel, an agricultural producer who grew up on a dairy farm near Brandon, will assume her new duties as the board’s vice-chairperson.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandonites will have much easier access to Canada’s busiest airport this summer, but they’re going to have to use the flights if there’s any hope of the service becoming permanent. On Monday morning, WestJet announced that from June 28 to Sept. 5, it will offer a direct flight four times weekly from the Wheat City to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, one of three “limited-addition” routes the Canadian airline is trying out for the summer.
A Brandon doctor credited with creating a knee replacement system that remains one of the most-used and successful orthopedic operations in the world has died. Dr. Frank Gunston, an Order of Canada recipient, passed away in his home on Feb. 15 at the age of 82. He was remembered at a service that filled Memories Chapel in Brandon on Monday afternoon.
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