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École secondaire Neelin High School 2026 valedictorian Dana Linov told her fellow grads on Wednesday that they have the power to define how challenges and obstacles are handled. She was one of 85 graduates who received their diplomas and tossed their mortarboards in the air to the applause of hundreds of family and friends in attendance at Brandon University’s Healthy Living Centre. READ MORE
Charges have been stayed against a Brandon police officer who was accused of assault causing bodily harm and dangerous driving causing bodily harm. READ MORE
Ashley Sullivan and Logan Van Santen value leadership, and it’s clear Vincent Massey does too after the school named the pair their athletes of the year. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Don Sumner, president of the Brandon Curling Club, announced that the club has been selected to host the 1967 Manitoba Mixed playdowns. The championships were held in Killarney last year.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Manitoba Wildlife Federation failed to convince Renewable Resources Minister Harvey Bostrom to allow deer hunting this year.
Provincial grants in aid totalling $145,000 will be made available to the City of Brandon this year for a street improvement project.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Fire Department is being plugged into a computer system that will provide vital information about the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis that may save lives and property.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Jenny Hartley, a nine-year-old Grade 3 student at Valleyview Centennial School, dove deep into the YMCA Eighth Street pool today to save her classmate, Tony Twerdochlib, and pulled him to the surface, where he was revived by a lifeguard moments later.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Local teen violinist Gillian Carrabré will be flying to Montreal today to spend a month rehearsing with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. After auditioning in February, she was the only musician from Brandon to be chosen to play with the prestigious ensemble and the only string player from this province.
A book signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper was among auction items that raised thousands of dollars for charity in the name of a Swan Lake boy fighting his second bout with cancer. Inspired by 11-year-old Coleman Sierens, who’s waiting for a bone marrow donor, Manitobans raised the money for the charities that have given the boy hope. “People gave $17,000 to charity, it was wonderful,” auction organizer Tasha Deschambault said. The book signed by Harper sold for $65, Deschambault said.
TEN YEARS AGO
The awards keep piling up for Matt Klassen. One day after being named one of four Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association scholar athlete recipients, the 17-year-old from Glenboro received two more awards Friday. Klassen was named both the MHSAA A boys’ athlete of the year and the province’s top overall male athlete Friday in Winnipeg.
Roughly 220 young people crossed the threshold into “real life” on Friday afternoon during the 2016 Vincent Massey High School convocation ceremony. Graduates in purple robes filled the floor of Westman Place while hundreds of friends and family looked on from the arena stands — periodically erupting in hoots and hollers when each grad collected their diploma.
Friday morning’s fire at Ambush Paintball left the business’s facility in almost complete ruin, said its owner, Steven Latell.
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