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Samarah Pruden held up a sign honouring her sister who has been missing for 10 years as she walked with more than 100 people decked out in crimson during the Red Dress Day rally in Brandon on Tuesday. READ MORE
Hermanos South American Steakhouse is preparing to open its first location outside Winnipeg in the historic Brandon Firehall on Princess Avenue next month. READ MORE
The City of Brandon is moving forward with a plan to add the option of digital payment for street parking. READ MORE
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Weather
WEDNESDAY: Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning. Clearing in the afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 8 C, with -7 C wind chill in the morning.
THURSDAY: Sunny. High 15 C. Low -2 C.
FRIDAY: Sunny. High 18 C. Low 0 C.
SATURDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 15 C. Low -2 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A sod-turning ceremony at a lot on Madison Crescent, east of First Street, signalled the start of construction of the Madison Crescent Baptist Church.
Provincial Agriculture Minister George Hutton, 44, has left his cabinet post in the Duff Roblin government to become a Lutheran minister.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Sun Centre, a new 32-bed alcohol and drug treatment facility, located at 24 10th St. in the former Brandon Sun building, was to be officially opened today by Corrections Minister J.R. Bud Boyce.
Starting May 10, the weather office is extending its forecast period to five days from the present three days.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Flash flood warnings were in effect today for several southern Manitoba streams and rivers as a weather disturbance continued to dump buckets of rain on the southern half of the province.
Grain prices soared in Canada and around the world as reports of a second meltdown at the damaged nuclear power plant in Ukraine fuelled concerns about crops, livestock and the future of agriculture in the Soviet Union.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Dr. Harold Silverman, Brandon’s only thoracic surgeon, confirmed he will be closing his practice and moving to Atlanta this summer.
RCMP are optimistic that a standoff on the Waterhen reserve in northern Manitoba will end peacefully after talks between dissident band members and Indian Affairs officials over the weekend.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
New Progressive Conservative Leader Hugh McFadyen has handed his Westman MLAs important jobs in his shadow cabinet, including his choice of Larry Maguire (Arthur- Virden) as his new deputy; Cliff Cullen (Turtle Mountain) is the Tories’ new water stewardship critic; and Leanne Rowat (Minnedosa) will now criticize the NDP government in the areas of culture, heritage and tourism and Aboriginal and northern affairs. Ste. Rose MLA Glen Cummings will be the critic in several areas, including industry, economic development and mines, Manitoba Public Insurance, the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission and the Workers’ Compensation Board, while his counterpart, Len Derkach (Russell), becomes advanced education critic and chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
TEN YEARS AGO
Manitoba’s new minister of growth, enterprise and trade promises Brandon will be well represented around the Progressive Conservative cabinet table, despite both Brandon MLAs being left out. Spruce Woods MLA Cliff Cullen said the Tories plan to establish a cabinet office in the Wheat City to give people in this region “direct access” to Manitoba’s ministers.
While most of Westman was enjoying record-breaking temperatures, a different kind of historical moment was being celebrated in Foxwarren on Thursday afternoon. Roughly 75 people attended a ground blessing ceremony at the town’s old school site to mark the end of a decade-long addition to reserve (ATR) process for Birdtail Sioux First Nation.
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