Today’s top stories
Building an oil refinery in Westman and increasing oil and gas production in the province will be top priorities for Wally Daudrich if he becomes Turtle Mountain’s next MLA. READ MORE
The drinking water advisory in the Town of Virden has been extended after high arsenic levels were confirmed in test results. READ MORE
Grayson Burzynski and Luke Mistelbacher each had a goal in their return to Swift Current as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the Broncos 4-0 in Western Hockey League action at InnovationPlex on Tuesday. READ MORE
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Weather
WEDNESDAY: Periods of snow ending in the morning then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light in the afternoon. High -20 C, with wind chill dipping to -33 C. Risk of frostbite. Low -24 C.
THURSDAY: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries. High -14 C. Low -19 C.
FRIDAY: Cloudy. High -15 C. Low -17 C.
SATURDAY: Cloudy. High -13 C. Low -19 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Health hazards involved in smoking received a thorough airing at a one-day student conference on smoking held at the Agricultural Centre. Fifty-nine students representing 34 high schools attended the meeting.
Sisters Eileen and Marguerite Blain of Wawanesa have been chosen to join the 1966 International Peace Garden Music Camp European tour choir.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Ten prominent lawyers, including former provincial Liberal leader I.H. (Izzy) Asper, have been appointed as Queen’s Counsel in the New Year’s honour list announced today. Also named to the list is Cyril W. Buckingham, 58, of Virden, former president of the Western Manitoba Bar Association and a part-time provincial judge.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Brandon lawyer Donald Sheldon is one of 14 Manitoba lawyers who made Queen’s Counsel on the New Year’s honour list.
Rick Nelson, who never seemed to outgrow the apple-pie image he acquired as Ozzie and Harriet’s younger son in the 1950s and ’60s, died today when a plane carrying him, his fiancée and his band to a New Year’s Eve engagement crashed in northeastern Texas. He was 45.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Eleven days ago, Brandon Sun reporter Jeffrey Lewis innocently suggested people should unload their pockets, purses and desk drawers of those unwanted pennies and send them to us for the Christmas Cheer campaign. Since then, 717 pounds of pennies have poured into the newsroom for a total of $1,183.48.
The Neepawa Game and Fish Association has begun an emergency deer feeding program because deep snow and crusting is threatening herds.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman Keith Aulie is still savouring the biggest assist of his life. Aulie rescued his father, Bill, from a potentially tragic situation on Dec. 22. Bill Aulie initially feared he would drown after a tractor he was driving fell through the ice on a dugout on the family farm near Rouleau, Sask. “In my mind, Keith’s a hero,” Bill said of his 16-year-old son, who is playing for Team Western at the Regina-based World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. “I don’t say too much about it, but he saved my bacon.”
TEN YEARS AGO
Former Manitoba premier Howard Pawley has died, an NDP spokesperson has confirmed. Pawley was NDP premier from 1981 until 1988 before becoming a political science professor at the University of Windsor. He was 81. Gary Doer, who served in Pawley’s second cabinet, succeeded him as party leader and eventually as the next NDP premier of Manitoba, remembers him fondly. “Howard was really a very gentle person,” Doer said Wednesday from Winnipeg, where Canada’s Ambassador to the United States is home with his family.
The McCain Foods potato-processing plant in Carberry is getting another significant equipment upgrade. The new equipment, which is valued at $760,000, will increase the plant’s efficiency and reduce annual potato and canola oil waste by 900,000 and 800,000 pounds, respectively, the Canadian and Manitoba governments said Wednesday. It will also lead to the creation of 10 more jobs in the plant over the next three years.
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