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Manitoba’s push to attract artificial intelligence data centres will depend less on its cold-weather advantage but on strong environmental and Indigenous involvement, Brandon University assistant professor Jennifer Mateer told the Sun. READ MORE
Soldiers, veterans, dignitaries and community members gathered Saturday afternoon at Korea Parade Square in Canadian Forces Base Shilo to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kapyong. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The days of the ramp on the west side of the First Street bridge are numbered, and that knowledge was reaffirmed by council. Receiving a petition from 19 businesses in the north end of Brandon opposing closing the ramp, aldermen instructed city clerk A.J.M. Bell to write the petitioners that council had approved closing the ramp if and when the Eighth Street bridge is rebuilt.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Morris Predinchuk of Morris Studios Ltd. of Moosomin, Virden and Brandon was made a fellow of the Saskatchewan Professional Photographers Association.
According to an agreement council authorized last night, the Brandon Museum Incorporated is to lease the city-owned property at 122 18th St., “The Maples,” for $1 a year for the next five years.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Prairie farmers, hit with the sharpest drop in prices in more than 25 years for the top grades, got more bad news with the release of initial prices for lower grades of grain. The drop in price for No. 3 grade is a grim 24.6 per cent. The Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition ended its 10th anniversary in Brandon with a first — of sorts. This year marked the first time in the competition that the first-place prize of a cross-country tour and $2,500 wasn’t awarded.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
After 24 hours of mayhem that left dozens of people injured and Manitoba’s largest jail trashed and burned, the last prisoners at Headingley jail surrendered to police last night.
Manitoba Government Employees Union president Peter Olfert and national Canadian Union of Public Employees leader Judy Darcy joined hands in front of a boisterous crowd at the Provincial Building in Brandon over the noon hour. More than 200 people attended the rally in support of striking home-care workers.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A multimillion-dollar casino will be built somewhere in Westman, and the city of Brandon has been dealt back into the game, says the head of an American investment company. “Brandon definitely is a possibility,” Jason Lucas, vice-president of BJ Development, said in a telephone interview with The Brandon Sun after touching down in Winnipeg yesterday.
The proposed Wheat City Horse Park could trot off to the glue factory after the provincial government yesterday officially denied it a licence to operate 100 video lottery terminals. The park’s proponents, who have been working for two years to build a $16-million harness racing track, restaurant and gaming centre just north of the Trans-Canada Highway, have received official word that they will not be able to get 100 VLTs — something they say all but kills their proposal.
TEN YEARS AGO
With the federal government earmarking millions for Manitoba’s water-treatment infrastructure projects, the City of Brandon is hoping to hear its application has made the cut. The city submitted its $60-million business strategy for the aging water treatment plant last fall through the New Building Canada Fund, and as city manager Scott Hildebrand says, this is the city’s biggest infrastructure priority.
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