Today’s top stories
As motivational speaker Chris Koch held the attention of his high school student audience, he slid back and forth on stage while on his longboard, using humour to poke fun at himself as someone who was born with no arms, and no legs. READ MORE
For far too many high school students, studying William Shakespeare was akin to a kind of 16th-century torture. READ MORE
Kurt Rookes has discovered the wisdom that can be earned in mistakes. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
John McGregor of Brandon was the big man on the two-mile lagoon track as he captured the feature race in the Wheat City Sports Car Club’s Midwestern Challenge Snow Race before approximately 5,000 spectators. He picked up two firsts with his low-slung Jaguar XKE, narrowly missing a third before his car spun into snow at the side of the track at 105 miles an hour.
Additions to three schools in the Souris Valley School Division, expected to cost about $223,000, have been approved.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
After almost two years of wondering what to do with the empty Brandon Health Unit building on Eighth Street, city council has decided to renovate it and rent it out to charitable organizations in the city for office space.
City aldermen have voted to restrict parking on 14th Street East in response to a request from officials at Assiniboine Community College.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Firefighters from Alexander, Brandon and Souris battled a fire at Klassen’s Food Mart in Alexander late last night. The building’s top floor was gutted. Damage was estimated at $21,000.
An unarmed cruise missile was released from a United States Air Force B-52 bomber over the Beaufort Sea early today for a second free-flight test over Canada.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The minimum wage in Manitoba is going up 40 cents an hour by next January, bringing the hourly wage to $5.40, Labour Minister Darren Praznik said. The wage will be increased in two steps, first with a 25-cent-an-hour hike on July 1 and then by another 15 cents on Jan. 1.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The First Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (1RCHA) batteries A and B fired their 12 M-109 self-propelled howitzers for the last time today. Other regiment members, their families and delegates looked on during a simulated enemy attack on CFB Shilo’s training grounds. “I was pumped up. It increased our capability and ability to survive by 150 per cent,” former Canadian Forces Base Shilo commander Rick Wilson recalled about the first time he shot the weapon. The Canadian military first acquired the large guns in 1968. While he was deployed in Germany, Wilson was one of the first 1RCHA members to operate the gun, which is carried on tracks and makes it resemble a tank. The gun requires seven to nine crew members to operate.
TEN YEARS AGO
Renaissance Brandon will soon be able to market a blank canvas — in the form of a large piece of prime downtown property — to potential developers. The downtown development organization purchased the small building located at 144 Ninth St., formerly Fowles Barbershop. Once environmental cleanup is complete, the plan is to demolish the building, opening up one large piece of property at the corner of Ninth Street and Princess Avenue.
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