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The City of Brandon approved its transit master plan at Monday evening’s council meeting. READ MORE
A provincial court judge sentenced a Brandon man to more than three years behind bars on Tuesday after he got into an argument with a taxi driver and stole his cab. READ MORE
Two theatre groups in Westman are teaming up for the first time to present a modernized reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” that hits the spotlight this week. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Virden MLA Morris McGregor was unanimously endorsed by the Virden Progressive Conservative Association as its candidate in the forthcoming provincial election at the annual meeting.
Start of work on the new Brandon College Education Building, to grow just north of Clark Hall, has commenced. Pearson Construction is doing the preliminary work on the three-storey, $900,000 building.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Pipestone, Reston and Sinclair got direct distance dialing service this week.
About 600 people packed Glenboro’s main hall last night to voice opposition to government cutbacks that threaten to leave Glenboro Hospital with a 1976 deficit of $40,000.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Krishman Nair, a Grade 6 student at Linden Lanes School, won a gold medal in the Grade 5-6 category for his science fair project dealing with the study of a pendulum swinging. He also won the World Book award for best individual project Grades 1-6 and the Diamond Jubilee IODE Award for best project Grade 1-6.
Brandon City Council passed a bylaw that forces smokers to butt out in public places. The bylaw replaces a more lenient one that allowed restaurants to voluntarily establish no-smoking areas. Now, restaurants with more than 50 seats must set aside no-smoking areas.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The new $2 coin is replacing paper money faster than the Royal Canadian Mint expected.
Erma Bombeck, who in her books and columns poked fun at life and gave a voice to suburban housewives everywhere, died today at the age of 69 from complications after a kidney transplant.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The giant bobblehead that was stolen from the roof of the Hair That Roxx salon on 18th Street is safely back in the hands of owner Sandy Bessant after a good Samaritan found it and called the Brandon Police Service. A CPR employee found the head in a tree behind the Maple Leaf processing plant.
Manitoba scientists are on the lookout for a Lyme disease-carrying tick that may be establishing a permanent foothold in the province. The deer tick carries the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease. Deer ticks are found in many parts of the United States, but five confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Manitobans last year prompted scientists to begin searching for the bug in eastern Manitoba.
TEN YEARS AGO
Three years since high levels of lead were discovered in the tap water of some older homes, the City of Brandon continues to work toward a long-term solution. Lead concentration was found to be higher than the standard in some homes built before 1950, as they are more likely to have a lead service connection. In 2013, the city estimated 3,600 homes may be affected.
After a three-year hiatus from his third-floor office in the Centre Block, Mike Duffy was let back into the Senate on Thursday, with access once again to the full resources of the upper chamber. Senate officials announced his full standing within hours of a verdict that cleared Duffy of 31 charges.
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