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Development charges for high-density buildings in Brandon related to water and wastewater could rise by nearly 800 per cent, a city application to the Public Utilities Board shows. READ MORE
The chief of Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation issued a statement this week saying he did not consent to the return of motorboats at Clear Lake. READ MORE
After his Western Hockey League drew to a close on April 2, Grayson Burzynski learned an important lesson about how time plays tricks on us all. The 20-year-old Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman, who is headed to college next season, said it certainly doesn’t feel like five years ago that he earned a spot at age 16 with the Swift Current Broncos. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
An extensive renovation and annexation program, estimated to cost about $200,000, was announced for the Prince Edward Hotel.
One hundred representatives of 19 municipalities discussed flood problems in Brandon with Dr. L.B. Thompson, director of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Brandon’s city golf course will again become an 18-hole course, at least for this year, but operations for the year are still not known. City council agreed that the course will have 18 holes. Two holes were lost last August with the start of construction of the technical-vocational school at the north end of the golf course property.
Delton school district recently voted to consolidate with the Nesbitt school area. The school has been sold to the Delton community club and will be used as an entertainment centre for the area.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The worst flooding along the Souris River since 1904 has forced the evacuation of 50 homes in Souris, broken dikes in Melita and is endangering water and sewage systems in both towns.
FORTY YEARS AGO
City council has amended Brandon’s cemetery bylaw so that the cremated remains of spouses can be buried next to war veterans.
Jim McCrae resigned from city politics last night, satisfied that he has repaid a debt to the community. McCrae was to be sworn in as MLA for Brandon West this morning.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A one-month deadline extension has enabled Northern Plains Premium Beef to secure another 70,000 head of cattle for its producer-owned meat-packing plant. Cattle producers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and seven American states have pledged to provide the plant with 344,360 head of cattle each year, about 45,000 more than was needed for the project to be viable. The vacant Burns plant in Brandon is still among the sites being considered for a packing plant.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
City council bowed to public pressure last night and agreed to take another look at the controversial site for a new fire hall at the corner of First Street and Rosser Avenue East. The city will now seek a “second opinion” on the level of pollution at the site. The decision comes just weeks after the city decided to go ahead with cleaning up the site and starting construction of the new fire hall.
TEN YEARS AGO
Roughly 100 people filled the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium on Sunday to pay tribute to former Brandon East NDP MLA Len Evans. Throughout the two-hour memorial service, colleagues, friends and family shared stories about a proud democratic socialist, a dedicated family man and an avid accordionist. Joining the podium onstage was a table set with a flickering candle, a glass of red wine and an accordion waiting to be squeezed. Leonard Salusbury Evans was born in Transcona on Aug. 19, 1929, and passed away on Jan. 2, 2016, after suffering a heart attack.
Rank-and-file New Democrats handed Tom Mulcair another ballot-box drubbing Sunday, voting to replace him as leader less than six months after a devastating election loss that dashed the party’s dream of forming Canada’s first federal NDP government.
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