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An African diaspora group hosted a community meal for people experiencing homelessness Saturday afternoon at Princess Park in Brandon. READ MORE
Trustee candidates at last Tuesday’s Brandon School Division election forum were asked to look back on the board’s current term and identify one decision they believe could have been handled differently. READ MORE
The Interlake Thunder stormed the Neelin Spartans’ gates, defeating the hometown team 40-25 on a rainy Monday afternoon. READ MORE
Weather
TUESDAY: Mainly cloudy. Wind becoming west 20 km/h early in the afternoon. High 9 C. Low -2 C.
WEDNESDAY: Sunny. High 12 C. Low 1 C.
THURSDAY: Increasing cloudiness. Windy. High 9 C. Low -4 C.
FRIDAY: Sunny. High 12 C. Low -1 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Brandon’s new family YMCA was officially opened yesterday when more than 500 people watched Lt.-Gov. R.S. Bowles place the cornerstone. The new “Y” cost more than $700,000, with nearly $500,000 raised by citizens of Brandon and district.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The number of unemployed in Canada dropped to its lowest level in 10 months in September, with 670,000 people jobless compared with 709,000 in August, Statistics Canada reported today.
Three homes are to be constructed in Alexander. The council of RM of Whitehead approved the sale of the lots for homes to G. Larry Bessant of Brandon; Henry Borody of Brandon and William Hatchen of Birds Hill.
FORTY YEARS AGO
About 45 per cent of the crops in this area have been harvested, and farmers are wondering whether they’ll finish before snow covers their fields.
With the $1.8-million tower in place between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, the Manitoba Television Network will begin transmission, the culmination of years of planning by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Good news on the deficit helped the Canadian dollar climb above 74 cents US for the first time in almost a year.
The RM of Elton has become the sixth recipient of the Green Acres Habitat Award. This is the first time that a municipality has been selected for this honour.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A memorial service for three of the four soldiers killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber on Sept. 18 drew hundreds of mourners to CFB Shilo today. CFB Shilo soldiers Pte. David Byers, Cpl. Shane Keating and Cpl. Keith Morley — members of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry — were killed while on patrol in the Panjwai District of Afghanistan. Their deaths represent the largest single-day loss of life for 2PPCLI. Cpl. Glen Arnold of CFB Petawawa, Ont., was also killed in the attack.
TEN YEARS AGO
The federal Crown attorney who handles the drug docket for the Brandon court has sounded the alarm over shots recently fired and a drug trade that’s “getting out of control.” Crown attorney Christina Cheater made the statements as she asked a judge to deny bail for a man who was allegedly caught with drugs in a hotel room. “I don’t know what’s going on in Brandon, lately, but all hell is breaking loose. There’s no other way of putting it,” Cheater said in Brandon provincial court on Tuesday. “People are raining shots into the streets, it is not safe out there right now. The drug trade is getting out of control.”
The Brandon University Bobcats got two goals from Rylee White and one from each of Jaycee Castle, Ilse Verbruggen, Kiera Riehl, Aziza Kinnarath and Bobby Milford as they defeated a 10-player Assiniboine Community College Cougars squad 7-1 at HLC Field to improve to 5-0-2 and inch closer to their goal of claiming their first Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference title in the program’s three-year history.
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