Today’s top stories
A violin instructor has ambitious plans for a new weekly program that makes learning the instrument accessible for families at the Brandon Public Library free of charge. READ MORE
Fertilizer Canada is encouraging farmers to check on local fertilizer supplies as conflict in the Middle East threatens the supply of the important farming material. READ MORE
Brady Turko scored the only goal of the shootout as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the Swift Current Broncos 4-3 in Western Hockey League action at InnovationPlex on Friday. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
An architect’s conception of the new building to be built by T. Bass of Brandon at 10th Street and Rosser Avenue was presented this week. The ground floor of the building will be occupied by S.S. Kresge Co. Ltd., while the second storey will be available as office space. The building may be ready for occupancy by early fall.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A bylaw authorizing the adding of through streets to the city map was given first and second reading at city council. The legislation, which would amend the traffic bylaw to make 34th Street a through street from Victoria to Richmond, Whillier Drive from Rosser to Victoria and Rosser from 19th Street to 26th Street, was in answer to recommendations by the special traffic board.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Guatemalan earthquake victims will soon be receiving aid directly from Brandon students. Meadows School students began collecting nickels, dimes and quarters last week. So far, they have collected $228.
Reston native Raymond S. Evans, Queen’s Printer for the province for the past 22 years, was honoured on his retirement at a reception in Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Dozens of school buses homed in on the Keystone Centre carrying thousands of high school students to Westman’s first high school career symposium. About 5,000 students from 21 divisions in Westman and eastern Saskatchewan are expected to go through over the two days.
An RCMP officer was killed and a second was critically wounded early yesterday in a shooting incident after stopping a vehicle in Powerview, 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon-Souris residents now have one more avenue to address their member of Parliament. Glen McKinnon announced that he can now be accessed through the Internet.
Six women from western Manitoba were honoured as the YWCA held its ninth annual Women of Distinction Awards. Honorees included Joyce Wityshyn, Carol Maggiacomo, Barbara Robertson, Kady Denton, Mary Evelyn Osborne and Sandra Armitage.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Building a fire hall directly opposite the Canadian Pacific Railway train yard — at Pacific Avenue and First Street — which carries deadly chemicals on a daily basis could spell disaster for the City of Brandon. It was that message the president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local No. 803, Terry Parlow, took to Brandon City Council last night, as he tried to convince councillors to take a good look at the Fleming School site as a possibility for a future fire hall.
There’s now a little sizzle in the scheme to move Assiniboine Community College to the former Brandon Mental Health Centre property. The aspiring chefs and their instructors in ACC’s culinary arts program will be among the first occupants of the new college on the North Hill, the provincial government announced. Although the complete details still need to be finalized, the province says it will go ahead and negotiate with a group of Winnipeg developers on putting the culinary arts and hospitality programs into BMHC’s former nurses residence.
TEN YEARS AGO
The man hoping to become the first non-NDP representative of Manitoba’s Brandon East constituency swung open the doors of his campaign office, officially kick-starting his campaign. More than two dozen filled Progressive Conservative candidate Len Isleifson’s headquarters — a former gym retrofitted with phone banks and coffee makers — on Richmond Avenue on Saturday afternoon.
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