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Mosquito fogging in Brandon will start at 9:30 p.m. tonight and last for about seven hours, weather permitting. READ MORE
The recent flooding along the Assiniboine River damaged test fields and disrupted scientific work at the Brandon Research and Development Centre. READ MORE
A 28-year-old man who’s been on Manitoba’s most wanted list for more than six months was arrested Monday in Brandon. READ MORE
Weather
WEDNESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with a risk of a thunderstorm early in the morning, and a 60 per cent chance of showers or thunderstorms late in the afternoon and evening. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. Local smoke in the afternoon and evening. High 33 C. Humidex 42 C. UV index 8 or very high. Low 19 C.
THURSDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with a 60 per cent chance of showers. High 28 C. Low 13 C.
FRIDAY: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. High 28 C. Low 15 C.
SATURDAY: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. High 28 C. Low 15 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Robert Young Eaton, president of T. Eaton Co. for 20 years, died in hospital in Midland, Ont. He was 81.
Harry young of Brandon, with a 31 1/2 inch, eight-pound pike, was the winner over Elgin’s James Maguire and his 30 1/2 inch, eight-pound pike in a contest at the Fish Registration Centre at Pelican Lake, Ninette.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Gordie Howe, one of hockey’s greats, has arrived in Brandon on his cross-Canada tour of 30 T. Eaton Co. of Canada centres, for which he acts as sports adviser.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A federal regulation that gives the government power to punish pilots and controllers who break the policy on bilingual air communications was announced yesterday.
Employees of government liquor stores walked off their jobs today to protest a decsion by the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission to comply with a wage rollback ordered by the anti-inflation board.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Canadian rowers, saving the best for last, won three gold, a silver and two bronze medals today on the last day of rowing competition at the Commonwealth Games.
Carnation Foods Co. Ltd., the potato processing plant located on the site of a former Commonwealth Air Training field near Carberry, has launched a $38-million expansion.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Susan McPherson was the co-valedictorian for the first-ever graduating class of the Brandon Adult Learning Centre. She was one of 26 graduates.Tom and Shirley Wells, a married couple, are busy these days as greeters, welcoming visitors to the city as part of the Tourist Greeter Campground Program, sponsered by the Branodn Economic Development Board.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A group of rural businessmen in southwest Manitoba are readying plans to build an ethanol plant in Hartney that would likely be the largest of its kind in the country. “The plant we’re proposiong at this point would be the largest in Canada to the best of our knowledge,” said Mark Vandaele, chairman of a six-person board of directors of Clean Country Resoures Ltd. Unlike the $145-million Husky-owned ethanol plant expansion, under construction in Minnedosa, which will use wheat and durum feedstocks, the CCR plant would be fed by barley and pea producers.
TEN YEARS AGO
Tundra Oil and Gas will install 22 micro-turbines at five sites near Cromer, Waskada and Pierson. Fuelled by solution gas, a byproduct of oil extraction and processing, each site will generate between 800 to 1,000 kilowatts of capacity. The energy will be used to power the company’s adjacent oil-collection facilities, while any excess power will be used to offset its power consumption at nearby wells, lowering Tundra’s energy bills.
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