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The Dauphin Centre for Justice will have 100 beds for inmates and include supports to help rehabilitate offenders serving sentences at the facility, the province’s justice minister said. READ MORE
Brandon’s warplane museum is planning a roughly $15-million “major redevelopment” project to stabilize the hangar and potentially build a new half-hangar on site. READ MORE
Brett Wilson has certainly had some pinch-me moments since he came to the Western Hockey League. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Magnacca Building Projects Ltd. of Brandon has been awarded the contract to construct two schools in the city this year. One will be a composite high school in the south end and the other an addition to Earl Oxford School.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The Morley House, an 18-unit seniors residence, was officially opened this week in Shoal Lake, with 150 people attending the ceremonies. John Edward Morley, for whom the residence was named, was postmaster in Shoal Lake for many years and left a portion of his estate to the village to be used for the benefit of the community’s citizens.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
In the first case of its kind in Canada, voice prints have been used to convict an 18-year-old Oak Lake man of making a bomb threat.
Even with the new Betty Gibson School, Brandon School Division officials are already considering the construction of a new school to be located south of Victoria Avenue and east of 34th Street.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The long silence since the last time a bugle sounded the start of a harness race at the old track on the Keystone Centre grounds in 1971 may soon be over. That is the hope of about 70 people who packed a meeting room at the Municipality of Cornwallis office last night to resurrect the Westman Turf Club in an attempt to bring horse racing back to Brandon.
The Brandon Unemployment Help Centre has helped 350 people since it opened Dec. 9 and assisted in recovering a total of $20,000 in unemployment insurance benefits by the end of January.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The City of Brandon got the money it needed to expand emergency 911 service. Premier Gary Filmon announced yesterday at Brandon’s No. 1 fire hall that his government would spend almost $3 million to get the potentially life-saving system up and running by next January.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Manitoba Health is tracking an outbreak of tuberculosis that has put two people in hospital and infected three others.
Assiniboine Community College president Brent Mills, who was instrumental in the deal to eventually move the college to the former Brandon Mental Health Centre site, will step down to take a job overseas. Mills will be leaving at the end of the summer to start a job running two colleges in the United Arab Emirates starting in late August.
TEN YEARS AGO
The family of Chase Martens is “completely devastated” after the two-year-old’s body was found by volunteers in a creek near his home early Saturday afternoon. The toddler had been missing since Tuesday evening. “This appears to be exactly what we all thought it was — a tragedy,” RCMP Sgt. Bert Paquet said at a news conference held near the family home later in the afternoon.
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