Today’s top stories
Assiniboine College announced plans Monday for construction of a medical lab space that will host two new programs starting next year. READ MORE
Two school gyms, a hotel bar and community rink have been identified as the latest possible exposure sites for measles in the Westman region. The affected communities are Baldur, Glenboro and Hartney. READ MORE
If the battered Brandon Wheat Kings can pull one more rabbit out of the hat, they could make a little bit of team history tonight. READ MORE
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Weather
TUESDAY: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries. Wind northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50. High -12 C, with wind chill near -24 C. Low -27 C, with -36 C wind chill overnight. Risk of frostbite.
WEDNESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -10 C. Low -12 C.
THURSDAY: Sunny. High 0 C. Low -5 C.
FRIDAY: Sunny. Windy. High 0 C. Low -25 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Carl Wicklund, the head librarian at the Brandon Public Library, will resign April 1. He came to Brandon six years ago. Since then, the circulation of books and magazines at the library has increased from 85,000 to 135,000.
Kraft honey, liquid or churned, 2-lb. jar, 59 cents; garlic sausage, 49 cents/lb.; strawberry jam, pure, 48-oz. tin, $1.15; Kraft Cheez Whiz, 16-oz. jar, 69 cents; Shirriff’s marmalade, 24-oz. jar, 59 cents.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Lord Baden-Powell week has begun. In Brandon, 12 boys of the 20th Brandon pack from the Royal Canadian Legion staged a campout on the weekend in Keystone Park in honour of the founder of scouting. The boys prepared all their meals outside over an open fire, slept overnight in tents and demonstrated trail breaking and winter survival to the public.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The founding father of medicare has died. Former Saskatchewan premier and federal NDP leader Tommy Douglas died at his Ottawa home this morning. He was 81. Known affectionately by his initials, T.C., the Scottish-born Baptist preacher was Saskatchewan premier from 1944-61, when his Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government introduced North America’s first universal health-care program. Douglas went on to serve as federal NDP leader from 1961-71. He was also one of Brandon College’s most famous alumni, attending in the late 1920s to prepare for the ministry.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Royal Canadian Mint says there will be no recall of its controversial $2 coins. Investigators are trying to figure out how to stop the centres from popping out of some coins.
Brandon University Prof. M.V. Naidu has just completed a new book titled “War Peace and Security.” This is the second book that Naidu has completed in the past six months.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A rookie MLA breathed life into the Progressive Conservatives’ listless leadership contest yesterday by becoming the first official candidate in the race to fill the party’s top job. Hugh McFadyen, a 39-year-old lawyer who has worked behind the scenes in Manitoba political circles for much of the past decade, officially entered the PC leadership campaign.
The Iron Web isn’t a weightlifting competition. And no, it’s not the name of a new heavy metal group. But it does have a lot to do with teamwork. Twenty-nine students in seven teams from the Assiniboine Community College faculty of web design are squaring off to see who can create the best web design for a single client, all in a matter of eight hours.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandon has a hometown connection to the R-rated comic book adaptation that has been dominating box offices around the world for the past two weeks. Scott Kukurudz, a Brandon native and Brandon University graduate, holds a credit on “Deadpool” as the film’s third assistant director. While “Deadpool” is the largest-grossing film Kukurudz has worked on to date, it’s one of many titles on his resumé. “I did like eight movies last year, so it’s kind of a blur,” Kukurudz said over the phone from Kamloops, B.C., where he was scouting locations for a current project.
A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has changed his name and wants to leave his group home to live independently. Vince Li appeared before a Criminal Code Review Board on Monday under the new name of Will Baker. Baker killed Tim McLean during a bus trip on the Trans-Canada Highway near Portage la Prairie in July 2008. He was found to be not criminally responsible for the murder due to mental illness — schizophrenia.
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