The manager of a city cab company says one of its drivers is doing well despite being attacked and robbed, and the driver himself says he plans to head back to work in a couple of days. READ MORE
As part of our now-annual custom, Brandon Sun editor Matt Goerzen sat down for a year-end interview with Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett on Dec. 20. READ MORE
League championships and provincial and national events were back on the sports calendar for Westman teams in 2024. Several squads had sensational seasons and made their case to be included among Westman’s best. Here are this year’s finalists, listed alphabetically, for the Brandon Sun’s Mike Jones Award for team of the year, named after the former Sun sports editor. READ MORE
SIXTY YEARS AGO
An $88,000 loan for Neepawa was announced this week by the municipal development and loan board. The money will be used for street paving in the town.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Three more top officials in the Central Intelligence Agency’s counterintelligence division are stepping down amid a reported dispute and allegations that the agency is involved in domestic spying.
FORTY YEARS AGO
News reports have told Canadians that the average family earns around $35,000 a year and the average woman nowadays has 1.7 children in her lifetime.
Feminists are angry at the Museum of Man and Nature and want its name changed to something less “sexist.”
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Veteran Sun photographer Dirk Aberson has been named a Picture of the Month award winner by The Canadian Press for a feature photograph he took in July of a police service officer holding the ankles of another officer who was going headfirst through a window of a residence.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brandon and area residents are being summoned to assist those affected by the earthquake and tidal waves. Several local charities are appealing for monetary donations to provide emergency supplies to people in nine countries who have been displaced by destructive and deadly tsunamis.
TEN YEARS AGO
Police nabbed 13 motorists for drinking and driving during the third week of the RCMP’s holiday checkstop program. Between Dec. 15 and Dec. 21, 13 drivers were charged with either impaired driving or driving over .08.
Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic capped his season Friday by winning the Lionel Conacher Award for the second year in a row. The honour is awarded annually to the Canadian Press male athlete of the year.
Brandon’s Tanya Tagaq has added another award to an already accolade-filled 2014. Tagaq was named The Globe and Mail’s Artist of the Year on Wednesday. Her album, “Animism,” captured the Polaris Prize earlier this year, along with the $30,000 award. Tagaq beat out rapper Drake and the band Arcade Fire to win the prize.
