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RCMP have laid murder charges against a second suspect in the case of a 33-year-old woman who was shot through her bedroom wall in the middle of the night in Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation last summer. READ MORE
An 18-year-old woman from Virden says the community support she’s received after being violently assaulted in a student parking lot outside Brandon University last week “means the world” to her. READ MORE
The Winnipeg Bruins have had the best season of their decade-long existence, but just one hurdle remains. As the Bruins chase their first Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League championship, the Brandon Wheat Kings will be doing their best to put the celebration off for another year. READ MORE
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SATURDAY: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of flurries. Risk of freezing rain in the morning. Wind northeast 30 km/h, gusting to 50. Temperature falling to -5 C in the afternoon. Wind chill -10 C in the afternoon. A 60 per cent chance of flurries early in the evening. Low -11 C. Wind chill -10 C in the evening and -18 C overnight.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High -1 C. Low -14 C.
MONDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 0 C. Low -11 C.
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -9 C. Low -14 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Catholic authorities plan to start building a new $75,000 school in the spring of 1957 that should be ready for occupancy in September of next year.
The British foreign office said that Russian instructors at a secret military base in Poland are training Egyptian military personnel to use their newly acquired Communist arms.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Thousands of sandbags were still being filled around Winnipeg while bulldozers tore into the soggy earth in southern Manitoba as the Red River began to rise in the United States watershed.
Brandonites will pay an average $338 more for educating a high school student than for educating an elementary school student during 1966.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Eighteen indigenous constables were on their way home today from a two-week intensive training program at the Oo-Za-We-Kwun Centre in Rivers. The police officers are the first graduates of the new program sponsored jointly by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Manitoba police commission and the RCMP.
The local weather office will enter its final stage of metric conversion April 1, 1976, when it converts wind speed, distance and atmospheric pressure into international metric units.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Westman Media Co-operative Ltd. has made a change-over to two stations about five weeks earlier than expected. As of Friday, the CBS and NBC networks are being sent from Detroit stations rather than affiliates in North Dakota.
Prince Andrew, the Queen’s dashing second son who has had a series of widely publicized flings with models and starlets, will marry Sarah Ferguson, an upper-crust commoner who played as a child with the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace announced.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The federal cabinet has rejected an appeal by Westman Media Co-operative Ltd. to revoke a competitor’s licence to operate a wireless cable TV system in southern Manitoba. The decision effectively means the cabinet has endorsed the licence granted by the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission last December to Craig Broadcasting Systems, owners of Brandon’s CKX-TV.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A growing chorus of voices is calling on the city to change or reverse its decision on the location of a new fire hall, saying the current plan is unsafe. Firefighters, their friends and family members, labour leaders and some city councillors are not happy with the decision to build a new home for the Brandon Fire Department on a piece of land that is contaminated by oil byproducts and heavy metals.
TEN YEARS AGO
A scathing report penned by the chair of Brandon University’s Department of Business Administration reveals detailed concerns over the viability of an “extremely risky” proposed joint business school with Assiniboine Community College, according to documents leaked to The Brandon Sun.
The Park Community Centre had a far more tropical feel to it on Saturday night. The centre was packed with dozens from Brandon’s Mauritian community and decorated with the small island nation’s vibrant red, blue, yellow and green national colours in honour of the 48th anniversary of Mauritian Independence Day.
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