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Only seven years after last hosting the country’s top men’s curling tournament, the City of Brandon has made a bid to bring the Brier back in 2028. READ MORE
A 78-year-old woman with stage 4 lung cancer says she is feeling “frustrated and scared” knowing the hospital in Dauphin may not reopen for up to a year, requiring her to travel for treatment. READ MORE
While Gio Pantelas decided he wanted to spend his final Western Hockey League season closer to family with the Penticton Vees, that doesn’t in any way diminish his time with the Brandon Wheat Kings. READ MORE
Weather
FRIDAY: Clearing. Local smoke in the morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h in the morning. High 27 C. Humidex 33 C. Low 15 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High 29 C. Low 18 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High 32 C. Low 17 C.
MONDAY: Sunny. High 26 C. Low 11 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Manitoba’s new liquor law, stating that beer parlours must close between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., went into effect today.
Two areas in the west end of Brandon were given names. The district from 26th Street west to the city boundary between the CPR tracks and Victoria Avenue will be named Valley View. The area to the south of Victoria Avenue to Park Street, and from 26th to the city boundary will be known as Lark Hill.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Braced for a jolt, the Gemini 10 astronauts rode a fuel-shy spacecraft to a world altitude record of 472 miles early today, blazed there by a rocket they caught in a tricky cosmic chase. The 26-foot Agena rocket’s 16,000-pound thrust engine burst to life, taking off like a shooting star with Gemini 10 firmly latched on to one end.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Boissevain Turtle Derby organizers are at it again this year, offering a $1,000 prize to any young lady able to climb unassisted to the top of the Tommy Turtle statue in Boissevain.
Two explosions from butane cars on a derailed section of a CPR freight train have resulted in the closing of a section of Highway 4 in the Shoal Lake district. The fire began between Kelloe and Bryd Siding.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Wheat Kings’ board of directors is giving up the ghost. Hit broadside by the Bank of Nova Scotia’s demand for repayment of $77,000 in promissory notes by July 31, the directors decided they want to sell the financially troubled Western Hockey League team.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Local police and firefighters will be promoting the use of bicycle helmets over the next few weeks and rewarding cyclists who are “caught” wearing them. The “We Caught You Using Your Head” campaign kicked off yesterday.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Grief descended on the small farming community of Spiritwood, Sask., north of Saskatoon, as word spread that two RCMP officers shot while chasing an assault suspect last week had succumbed to their injuries. At a news conference in Saskatoon, RCMP assistant commissioner Darrell McFadyen confirmed that constables Robin Cameron, 29, and Marc Bourdages, 26, had died of severe gunshot wounds to the head.
TEN YEARS AGO
According to Brandon Police Service data posted online at CrimeReports, officers responded to 237 collisions between Jan. 4 and July 4, 2016. Of those, 25 involved injuries.
More than 100 soldiers from CFB Shilo will head overseas to Ukraine this summer, helping to train Ukrainian counterparts in their transition to a NATO-standard force. The mission, Operation Unifier, comes at a time when tensions are high in a country whose government forces are contending with Russian-backed separatists in its eastern regions.
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