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Emergency crews pulled a person from a burning home in Brandon’s east end on Tuesday morning. READ MORE
A school trustee candidate who previously made public statements diminishing the impact of Indian Residential Schools denies ever writing or saying anything harmful. READ MORE
Even with a changing hockey landscape in recent years, the odds of beginning a Western Hockey League career at 19 are rare. However, Hudson Landmark is proving it’s not impossible as he embarks on his rookie campaign with the Brandon Wheat Kings. READ MORE
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THURSDAY: Sunny. High 18 C. Low 4 C.
FRIDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 20 C. Low 9 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High 25 C. Low 3 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Contributions during the first week of the Community Chest campaign are more than $12,0000, secretary-manager E.P. Johnson said. The objective for the 1966 campaign is $72,150.
William A.B. Dickson, 61, of Brandon, died early yesterday morning. Dickson was manager of Victoria Esso Service and Reliance Repair Service and until recently was manager of Meadows Esso Service.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Thanksgiving at EconoMart: turkeys, eviscerated 6-10 lb.; Utility Grade, 69 cents/lb.; Maple Leaf and Miracle Baste turkeys, eviscerated, 6-16 lb., 99 cents/lb.
Light radiation from a Chinese atomic test is sprinkling parts of the eastern U.S., leading health officials in one state to warn residents to wash garden vegetables carefully before eating them.
A Souris native, J.D. Collinson, has been appointed assistant deputy minister for the western region of the department of regional economic expansion.
FORTY YEARS AGO
About 66 dog owners took their pets for a walk this Sunday and raised more than $5,200 in support of Canada’s only guide dog training school.
Nominations for city council closed with a total of six aldermen acclaimed. Aldermen Mike Melnyk, Lynne Little, Fred Anderson, Jim Reid, Dan Munroe and Ross Martin all returned to office unopposed. Len Kindrat and Arnold Grambo are the only incumbent aldermen forced to wage campaigns, while two vacant seats are up for grabs.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Some farmers have stopped waiting for crops to dry out and have begun to harvest grain lying in wet swaths.
Robert Bourassa got a fond farewell today as politicians and ordinary Quebecers filled Notre Dame Basilica while thousands of others listened outside to his funeral service.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Margaret Workman, a longtime community activist, former city councillor and the Liberal party’s local matriarch, died today after a long battle with cancer. She was 82. A tireless public servant, Workman was a member of many community groups, including the YWCA, the Catholic Women’s League, the Provincial Council of Women, the MS Society and the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum.
What Behlen Industries has accomplished in the last 20 years, and is continuing accomplish, is truly outstanding and speaks volumes for the quality of business in Brandon. Last week, Behlen unveiled its new 25,000-square-foot expansion complete with a $4-million price tag, which includes approximately $3 million in new equipment for the plant’s Flex-Sys line.
TEN YEARS AGO
A high school student from Strathclair ditched her textbooks and course readings this school year in order to set sail on a ship thousands of kilometres away. Don’t worry, though — Emma-Jean Koscielny’s absence was excused. The 17-year-old got a hands-on look at the work of scientists aboard the massive Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen on an eight-day journey through the Northwest Passage in late September. Not a bad field trip for the Grade 12 student, one of only nine selected for the expedition.
With the snip of a bright-red ribbon that was hung in one of four new Brandon Transit buses, Brandon Mayor Rick Chrest officially opened the city’s new downtown bus terminal yesterday morning. Though the terminal, located at Eighth Street and Rosser Avenue, has been open and operating for the last several weeks, Brandon Transit and the city wanted to give the $350,000 project its due — especially after the amount of planning and work that went into managing the bus fleet’s temporary terminal along Rosser, while the new terminal’s construction was underway over the summer.
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