Today’s top stories
The Keystone Centre, Brandon’s cornerstone of the event industry, reported an operating surplus of $126,538 in the 2024-25 fiscal year. READ MORE
A witness testified in court that he saw Jeremy Blacksmith pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a 21-year-old man moments after he was fatally shot in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. READ MORE
If anyone was ever destined to work in sports, it has to be Max Paddock. The 25-year-old Brandonite, who now serves as goaltending coach and director of hockey operations for the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats, certainly comes by his management skills honestly. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A motorized artificial hand in flesh-coloured plastic has been developed for the British health ministry and is scheduled to undergo clinical trials among amputees in 1966.
President Lyndon Johnson said he will pursue peace, but the United States will stay in Vietnam “until aggression has stopped.” He backed the pledge with a record US$112.8-billion budget that did not call for a general tax boost.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Heritage School — a private school operated by parents who last year removed their children from the public school system because of the family life education controversy — was the subject of long debate at city council that ended with council allowing the school a temporary occupancy permit at its site at 2426 McDonald Ave.
The Brandon School Division received word that a number of building projects have been approved by the education department. The department will fund construction of a gymnasium at Neelin High School. The new gym is to have an area of 4,500 square feet.
FORTY YEARS AGO
City council turned down yet another offer by the Westman Lions Manor Inc. to buy the site of the old Prince Edward Hotel, but some councillors are becoming frustrated they can’t find a buyer.
Four major grain companies say they will no longer allow farmers to store unsold grain in their elevators. The move by Pioneer Grain Co. Ltd., Manitoba Pool Elevators, Cargill Ltd. and United Grain Growers follows a decision by the Canadian Grain Commission to clamp down on the practice of using unsold grain in transactions before farmers had released it for sale.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A group calling itself BGH Concerned Health Care Providers is staging a forum at the end of the month to raise public awareness of a rumoured downsizing at Brandon General Hospital.
While other museums haven’t been so fortunate, Shilo’s RCA Museum has dodged a bullet. Officials found out this week that their collection of small arms, guns and howitzers will be exempt from the federal government’s new firearms registration.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Shirley Seddon’s newspaper boy is so reliable that the senior relied on him to save her life. Trapped in bed by excruciating pain, the 77-year-old counted the hours until Brandon Sun carrier Brad Wilton showed up at her Wawanesa door so she could call for help. He arrived right on time.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandon School Division’s decision to switch to a lottery-style enrolment system for École Harrison’s single-track French immersion class has sparked criticism from parents. “I don’t believe that a child’s education should be left to luck, which is essentially what a lottery system does,” said Kerri Lynn Gudz, president of the Brandon chapter of Canadian Parents for French. On Monday, the BSD board of trustees voted 7-2 to quash the current first-come, first-served system, which for years resulted in eager parents queuing for hours in the night to sign up their children for Harrison.
Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Larry Maguire intends to follow up with Global Affairs Canada following the death of an Oak Lake woman who became ill while visiting Cuba in November. Barbara Johnston, 54, died Dec. 29 at Brandon Regional Health Centre after getting sick in Cuba more than a month earlier.
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