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When Gage Wood started working as a firefighter-paramedic in Brandon a decade ago, responding to an opioid overdose was “very rare.” But now, emergency services are being called to more than 100 overdoses per year. READ MORE
Wally Daudrich says he plans to appeal the Progressive Conservative party’s decision to disqualify him as a candidate for the party in Turtle Mountain. READ MORE
Crocus Plains high school senior Elbert Maritz is entering the varsity boys javelin event at the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association track and field provincials as the clear-cut No. 1 seed today. READ MORE
Weather
FRIDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon and evening. Wind west 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 in the morning. High 19 C. Low 7 C.
SATURDAY: Cloudy with 40 per cent chance of showers. High 17 C. Low 4 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High 22 C. Low 7 C.
MONDAY: Sunny. High 22 C. Low 5 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Charlton Heston, serious young Hollywood actor, unveiled a handsome new plaque at the International Peace Garden. The plaque was placed by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the United States and Canada as a symbol of peace and goodwill existing along the border.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
T. Benjamin (Ben) Parker, 43, advertising manager of The Brandon Sun, died in Winnipeg after a brief illness.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Syria agreed today to lift its siege of Beirut and pull its troops out of Lebanon, a Palestine guerrilla communique said.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A heat wave in late May and early June has sped up hatching, and grasshoppers — some less than a centimetre long — are chewing the tops of newly emerging plants and leaving entire fields black.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The latest craze to hit Brandon will help bring your memories to life. Caroline Campbell is one of five Brandon-area consultants for Creative Memories, a U.S.-based company that deals in photograph albums and accessories. Its consultants offer workshops where people are taught how to properly preserve their precious pictorial memories.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Divers and rescue staff spent parts of two days searching for a young man who went missing after a small fishing boat capsized in Jackson’s Lake, a popular fishing and campground site near Austin. RCMP Sgt. Steve Colwell said the missing 22-year-old man was one of four people in the boat when it capsized.
Hot and cold — that described both the weather and the attendance during the 125th Manitoba Summer Fair. The total attendance for the five days of the fair was 97,775, Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba general manager Karen Oliver said. That’s down from last year’s attendance of 98,700 visits. Oliver said the attendance was largely dependent on the weather. Things started off nicely last Wednesday with warm temperatures and sun, but rain put a damper on the crowds on Thursday and Friday before the sky cleared again on Saturday.
TEN YEARS AGO
The stabbing of a fellow police officer left Brandon cops in shock, says the head of Brandon’s police union who views the sentence the offender received as disappointing and “pathetic.” Brandon Police Association president Kevin Loewen said the charge against the offender should have been attempted murder, not the lesser charge of aggravated assault of a peace officer.
Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, stripped of the power of speech and much of his mobility by an implacable disease, watched Friday as his political legacy cleared a last hurdle toward passage by the House of Commons. Belanger’s private member’s bill, which would render the words of “O Canada” gender-neutral, is on the verge of adoption by the House, needing only a formal recorded vote next week.
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