Today’s top stories
Harvest Manitoba has returned to two Brandon schools with its Meals2Go student nutrition program for the 2025–26 school year. READ MORE
A 15-year-old girl testified in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench Monday that a man sent her several photos of his genitals and sexual texts in 2023. READ MORE
As it turns out, Daniil Skvortsov was always meant to be a member of the Brandon Wheat Kings. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
John King, Louella Frampton and Ron Drysdale are three of the 90 students at Brandon Collegiate who take part tonight in the opening of “The Green Pastures” for a three-night stand. Brandon’s latest folk-singing attraction, 22-year-old Larry Lawrence, will appear this week at the candlelight lounge in the North Hill Motel.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Burton Cummings, lead singer and chief songwriter with The Guess Who, one of Canada’s best-known rock bands, says the group has broken up.
The dismantling of the sign in front of the old Oak movie theatre on Eighth Street may mark the end of an era, but not the end of the theatre. Renovations have begun on the interior and according to owner Barry Meyers of Winnipeg, the refurbished theatre should be reopened by the end of January.
FORTY YEARS AGO
About 400 people gathered at Louis Riel’s tomb to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Métis leader’s death.
Gary Kolar, representing Santa Claus, parachuted from an ultralight aircraft onto the Brandon Shoppers Mall parking lot this afternoon.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Strong job growth in 1994 helped pull family incomes higher for the first time in five years. Average family incomes from all sources rose to $54,153 last year, spurred on by an increase of 382,000 new jobs, Statistics Canada said.
Brandon University has given notice it will withdraw from the Western Universities Telecourse Consortium. Low demand and the high cost of delivering distance education via television eroded any financial benefits.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The winter storm that dumped 20 centimetres of snow on much of Westman this week has likely eaten up the city’s snow removal budget for the year. “We’re thinking this budget will get used up,” said public works director Rick Bailey. “It’s going to be close.” All told, this week’s cleanup will cost the city nearly $30,000, foreman Rick Darvill says of the $551,000 snow removal budget, which is to last until Dec. 31.
The provincial government will fit a busy Brandon intersection with a set of crosswalk lights by next September, in time for the start of classes at Earl Oxford School. Rod Sage, the traffic co-ordinator for the City of Brandon, says a new “half light” will be installed for the 2006-07 school year at the corner of 20th Street and Victoria Avenue.
TEN YEARS AGO
Police appear to have prevented up to three deaths with the gunpoint arrest of an armed man who’d threatened to kill a hostage, a second man and himself. Police say a man armed with a rifle took a business owner hostage, forced him into a vehicle and then uttered a chilling threat to his captive. A 35-year-old Brandon man is in custody on multiple charges that include forcible confinement and use of a firearm in an offence. He’s expected to appear in court this morning.
Manitobans have the highest food bank use in the country, according to a new national report from Food Banks Canada. The situation is most acute for families in Brandon, where fully half of the people who use services at Samaritan House Ministries are children — a number that is significantly higher than both the provincial and national averages. The HungerCount 2015 report showed that 63,791 individuals used a food bank in Manitoba during the month of March, a jump of 3.4 per cent over the year before. Of those, 42 per cent were children, and 5.5 per cent were seniors. At least half of all users are on social assistance.
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