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The Royal Manitoba Winter Fair kicked off on Monday with hundreds of people touring the Keystone Centre in Brandon, petting animals, browsing vendor booths and learning about agriculture. READ MORE
Local leaders are remembering former Brandon city councillor, teacher and housing advocate Arnold Grambo, who died last week at age 85. READ MORE
If the Brandon Wheat Kings were playing with horseshoes instead of hockey sticks, their two close losses to the Calgary Hitmen might have been useful. READ MORE
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Weather
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h early in the afternoon. High -2 C, with -17 C wind chill in the morning. Low -15 C, with -21 C wind chill overnight.
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy. High -2 C. Low -3 C.
THURSDAY: Periods of snow. High 0 C. Low -5 C.
FRIDAY: Cloudy. High 0 C. Low -6 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Phyliss Jones of Ninga, last year’s Aberdeen Angus queen of the Manitoba Winter Fair, relinquished her post to newly elected queen Lorraine Tolton of Newdale.
Manitoba Pool Elevators is taking steps to eliminate offensive odours at its 18th Street rendering plant, Brandon Mayor S.A. Magnacca said. The mayor said a letter from MPE president W.J. Parker confirmed that equipment will be installed by May 1 to eliminate odours.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
J. Harvey Tolton, an exhibitor since before most of the present varieties of grain were introduced, was dominant again in the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair seed show, adding the Manitoba Growers trophy to his collection of awards.
Gerard Raes of Deloraine is the 1976 grand champion in the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair’s egg competition, “Canada’s largest egg show.”
FORTY YEARS AGO
The U.S. Senate has approved a plan to contribute C$57 million toward a Saskatchewan-led plan to build two dams on the Souris River system to ease flooding problems in North Dakota.
Larry Maguire, an Elgin-area farmer, has been named this year’s Outstanding Young Farmer by the Brandon District Jaycees.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Faster than an epidemic, fear of British beef is spreading through Europe, spawning sweeping measures to protect the continent from “mad cow” disease.
Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton defeated Warwick Smith of Scotland 6-2 to win the world men’s curling championship in Hamilton, Ont.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Sioux Valley Dakota Nation residents have elected Kenneth Whitecloud to replace Vince Tacan as chief of the First Nation in a band council election. Whitecloud is the brother of former Sioux Valley chief Katherine Whitecloud, who was recently elected to the Manitoba regional chief position of the Assembly of First Nations.
After a postponed concert a week and a half ago due to a bout of bronchitis, Tanya Tucker returned to Brandon and played to a crowd of about 450 people at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium last night.
TEN YEARS AGO
Hundreds of people gathered in MacGregor to say goodbye to a little boy whose disappearance and tragic death united hearts across the country. They gathered at the MacGregor Sommerfeld Mennonite Church on Wednesday to say goodbye to two-year-old Chase Thomas Martens, whose body was found in a creek after he went missing from his nearby home, north of Austin.
Using its “best guess,” the Bank of Canada predicts the economy will take more than two years to fully adjust to the commodity price shock. Lynn Patterson, the central bank’s deputy governor, said in a speech Wednesday that tumbling oil and other resource prices have translated into losses of about $1,800 for every Canadian.
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