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Some municipal officials in the Assiniboine River Basin are starting a push to restore provincial funding for an organization that would help prevent flooding and improve watersheds. READ MORE
A Saskatchewan man who allegedly blew more than three times the legal limit after landing his truck in a ditch in the RM of Pipestone was denied bail in Brandon provincial court on Thursday. READ MORE
The Brandon Wheat Kings acquired local defenceman Josh McGregor in a three-way trade announced Thursday morning. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
A wind-fanned fire roared through a two-storey car repair shop in the big Fort Rouge yards of the Canadian National Railway in south Winnipeg, doing damage estimated at $500,000.
Seventy-five years of rapid expansion, starting in 1882 when Brandon became an incorporated city almost overnight, up until this, the anniversary year of the Wheat City, is presently being penned in the form of a history by local librarian McDonald Coleman.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
An $800,000 plant to extract estrogenic hormones for pharmaceutical purposes will be built in Brandon by Ayerst, McKenna and Harrison Ltd. Contracts were signed in Montreal to assure construction of the plant.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Chamber of Commerce has won one of four Travel Industry Association of Canada awards for its work in bringing the 18th Wally Byam International Airstream trailer rally to the city last year.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Sun has filed a complaint with the federal Access to Information Commissioner after records it requested on a deficiency payment to grain farmers were denied.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Bad weather, combined with the timing of last week’s air show, caused attendance figures to nosedive, leaving organizers in need of several thousand dollars from the city to help pay the bills.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Manitoba is declaring war on junk food in schools. A nutritional guidebook was released yesterday and consultation is being sought so that every elementary school in the province can produce a nutrition plan before the beginning of the 2006-07 school year. The plan is to adjust offerings in vending machines and cafeterias. Elementary schools are to have nutrition plans in place for the next school year and high schools will have to do the same for the following year.
TEN YEARS AGO
Goaltender Chase Marchand made 38 saves and Timo Meier scored twice as the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-3 in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday in the 2016 Memorial Cup opener for both teams. Reid Duke, Tyler Coulter and John Quenneville found the back of the net for the Western Hockey League champion Wheat Kings while Jordan Papirny gave up five goals on 29 shots.
A smouldering foundation was all that was left of a house that burned to the ground in the RM of Cornwallis on Friday afternoon. CFB Shilo emergency services crews responded to the fire on Thompson Road — which is located roughly one mile south of Highway 457 — around noon yesterday. “Everyone was out of the building by the time firefighters arrived … The structure was destroyed by the fire,” Shilo public affairs officer Lori Truscott wrote in a statement. The flames had subsided by approximately 1:30 p.m., but smoke was still billowing out of the collapsed structure as fire crews continued to douse the rubble with water. No one was injured in the blaze and the Office of the Fire Commissioner has started an investigation into the cause of the fire.
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