Today’s top stories
The narrow loss for the NDP in the Spruce Woods byelection on Tuesday is being called a “significant win” by one expert, showing the party continues to gain momentum since the 2023 election. READ MORE
Brandon Police Service is investigating after a shot was fired in the city’s downtown on Wednesday morning. READ MORE
The Brandon Wheat Kings may have lost their two best defencemen from last season’s club, but hopes are high for a unit that made a massive step forward last year. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Final arrangements for an ambulance telephone service between Riverdale Hospital and the Rivers fire department were approved at the recent meeting of the Riverdale hospital board.
One of western Manitoba’s best-liked sportsmen will leave Brandon next week to take up a new position in the United States. Henry Stothard, sports director of CKX-TV, is leaving the Wheat City to occupy a similar position with station WTVO in Rockford, Ill.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Longtime Brandon resident and businessman Karl Yaegar died last night. He was 67.
It has been estimated by provincial environmental experts that 75 per cent of Brandon’s service stations have leaks in their storage tanks.
FORTY YEARS AGO
With a money market in disarray and brush fires of violent confrontation burning throughout its settlements, South Africa today continues a ruinous policy of apartheid protests against suppression.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Rick Chrest announced this morning he is challenging incumbent Brian Deacon for a city council seat in the Oct. 26 civic election.
More than 3,000 baseball fans packed Westbran Stadium to watch a charity game between the Brandon Police Service and a travelling group of sports legends, including former Hamilton Tiger-Cat great Angelo Mosca and the infamous former Toronto Maple Leaf Eddie Shack.
Rucker’s Entertainment Centre is bringing its brand of family fun to Brandon when it opens up shop on 18th Street.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brandon taxpayers must foot their own ambulance bills for emergency service to Winnipeg where certain experts live, but that policy “has to be fixed,” says a provincial government spokesman, to make the system more “fair.” Brandon mom Vicki Rockley recently received an $808 ambulance bill after her seven-year-old daughter required emergency surgery by an ear-nose-throat surgeon in Winnipeg earlier this month. Although she knew she’d be responsible for the cost of the ambulance, Rockley told the Brandon Sun she did not expect it to be anywhere near $800.
City council voted to create a task force of citizens to help police deal with organized crime and community safety in general. Councillors put their differences of opinion about the severity of Brandon’s street gang problem aside and voted unanimously to create a “task force on community safety” that would see citizens’ groups help police in their duties. Coun. Errol Black (Riverview) amended the original motion to change the task force’s mandate to include more than just organized crime.
TEN YEARS AGO
Westman producers aren’t apologizing for the higher cost of hay as a result of a drought in Western Canada, mainly Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan, that has resulted in a hay shortage. Arney Eissner farms west of Souris and estimates he’ll sell between 2,000 and 2,500 medium-sized square bales this year.
The Ashley Neufeld Softball Complex has been awarded the Field of Dreams grant from the Jays Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Toronto Blue Jays. The committee announced the grant of $123,733 on Thursday morning.
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