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The former chief of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation has launched a legal bid to overturn the results of last month’s election for chief and council. READ MORE
Construction is expected to proceed next year for a roundabout on 18th Street North in Brandon. READ MORE
Jordan Gavin brought the teddy bears down and a noisy crowd of 4,116 people went home happy as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the visiting Kelowna Rockets 6-3 in Western Hockey League action at Assiniboine Credit Union Place on Friday. READ MORE
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SUNDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -9 C. Low -13 C.
MONDAY: Sunny. High -9 C. Low -8 C
TUESDAY: Sunny. High 1 C. Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries at night. Low -14 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Safeway prices: top quality young turkeys, 53 cents/lb.; Laurel Brand and Swift Premium hams, whole or shank half, 49 cents/lb.; domestic ducks, head, neck and feet removed, 49 cents/lb.; Party Pride ice cream, two pints, 41 cents; Mandarin oranges, 49 cents/2 lb. or box $1.95; mixed nuts, 1/2-lb. tin, 51 cents; Lowney’s Fifth Avenue chocolates, 1-lb. box, 89 cents; Kraft Cheese Whiz, 10-oz. jar, 63 cents; Aylmer Choice corn, 15-oz. tins, 4 for 49 cents.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Two British army units, part of Britain’s strategic reserve, will carry out winter exercises in Western Canada early in 1966. The 28th Light Battery, Royal Artillery, will train at Camp Shilo from Jan. 13 to Feb. 20.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Einar Thu, an internationally known cross-country skier from Norway, gave instructional dryland lessons at Vincent Massey High School and St. Michael’s Academy.
Brisk winds and a steadily dropping thermometer didn’t stop Manitoba breeders of Maine-Anjou cattle as they moved about 70 head of cattle for more than $50,000 at the Keystone Centre.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A DC-8 carrying 250 U.S. service personnel and eight crew home from the Middle East carved a charred path through the woods near Gander Airport in Newfoundland today, killing all aboard in the worst air disaster on Canadian soil.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Public Schools Finance Board will fund only two new classrooms at Waverly Park school instead of the four the Brandon School Division had applied for.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Teresa Stasila, a grocery manager at the west-end Brandon Sobeys, raised more than $12,000 for charity by camping out in front of the store over the course of a weekend in late November.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Manitoba Métis Federation has embarked on a plan to build two new affordable housing units in Brandon, following the completion of a similar project in Winnipeg. The provincial NDP yesterday announced that three families had been welcomed into safe, affordable homes in Winnipeg, the first housing funded under a multi-year, $5.5-million partnership between the Manitoba government and the MMF.
Giorgio Estephan scored twice and Tyler Wong had three points as the opportunistic Lethbridge Hurricanes beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-3 at Westman Place on Friday. Lethbridge (20-10-0-0) capitalized on both of its power-play chances and scored three goals in less than three minutes in the second period for the Western Hockey League victory.
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