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Premier Wab Kinew has called for military aid to help with the devastation caused by flooding in the Parkland region. Kinew said he made the request to federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski, and that a response would be likely “in the next day or two.” READ MORE
As overland flooding continues to impact people across Westman, a Brandon resident is calling on the city to improve drainage issues after Monday’s storm created a “lake” in his neighbourhood. READ MORE
Clara Peake is back from her best college golf season yet. READ MORE
Weather
FRIDAY: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening. Wind east 20 km/h. High 21 C. Humidex 26 C. Low 14 C.
SATURDAY: Clearing. High 27 C. Low 16 C.
SUNDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of showers. High 29 C. Low 14 C.
MONDAY: Sunny. High 27 C. Low 12 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
A program of boulevard installation and tree planting is expected to get underway this fall in the city’s new west-end development. Four blocks on 34th Street, from Rosser to Victoria avenues, will be started this year, with the overall program to extend as far as Park Avenue.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Evelyn Burch, a member of the Oak Lake 4-H home economics club, was named queen of the Provincial 4-H rally.
Three days of the long weekend have passed by without incident in Brandon or on the highways of the district.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The King and His Court, one of the greatest travelling fastball shows going, anchored by the irrepressible Eddie Feigner, performed before a crowd of 700 adults and 300 children at Curran Park in a game against the Pizza Place Merchants.
Jack Simpson, maintenance manager and buildings supervisor at the Keystone Centre for the past three years, has been appointed the centre’s general manager.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Local cattleman Cyril Stott, owner of the Double SS Hereford Farms, made a record-setting sale of half-interest in a pure-bred Hereford to Teddy Gentry, a member of the country-rock group Alabama.
After years of neglect, Minnedosa’s grand old castle is in for a facelift. To the delight of local residents, Dr. Richard Northcott has decided to make the castle his home and plans to restore the three-storey home to its original turn-of-the-century condition.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Dauphin’s Countryfest continues to harvest handsome returns from seeds sown in its lean early years. The seven-year-old festival, which nearly collapsed for good after losing more than $100,000 in its first year, played to a festive sellout audience of 10,000 people over the weekend.
Canada’s beleaguered system of orderly farm marketing took another hit yesterday as Manitoba hog farmers entered an open market. The end of the province’s hog-marketing monopoly is part of an overall trend to free up the marketplace.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Deveryn Ross, 45, confirmed this weekend he will challenge Dave Burgess and Beth Smale for the right to wear the mayor’s chains of office. Saying he has been asked by hundreds of people to run, Ross said he’s in the race because there’s a “serious leadership problem” in the mayor’s office and he thinks he can do better than Burgess has for the past four years.
Last night, after a warm sunny weekend, Dauphin’s Countryfest 2006 ended to the strains of LeAnn Rimes’ hits. With an estimated crowd of more than 12,000, the event was once again a success. “This has been probably the best year ever. The people are having a great time. There’s lots for people to do,” said Eric Irwin, president of the Countryfest board, at the site yesterday. “It’s the biggest camping festival in Manitoba — one of the biggest in the country.”
TEN YEARS AGO
A provincial state of emergency declared over a raging wildfire in northern Alberta nearly two months ago has finally been lifted. The provincial government said the declaration was ended at midnight, though it will be replaced by a local state of emergency in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo as of Friday. It had been initiated at 3:57 p.m. on May 4, one day after the oilsands capital of Fort McMurray was put on a mandatory evacuation order, so the province could take control of the response to the disaster.
Members of a tight-knit Manitoba flying community say they are shocked at a plane crash that took the lives of two people on Friday morning. The Piper PA 28, which can carry up to four people, came down in a rural area near Deacon’s Corner and Highway 15 shortly after taking off from the tiny Lyncrest Flight Centre.
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