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After waiting anxiously for poll results to trickle in, Jeff Fawcett was handily re-elected for a second term as Brandon mayor Wednesday evening. READ MORE
Brandon elected four new councillors and re-elected six incumbents to represent the 10 wards that encompass the city. Only one incumbent candidate — Heather Karrouze in Ward 1 — was defeated in Wednesday’s municipal election. READ MORE
The Vincent Massey Vikings left it all on the field, including the football, as their junior varsity season ended on Wednesday. READ MORE
Weather
THURSDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 5 C. Low -4 C. Wind chill -9 C overnight.
FRIDAY: Sunny. High 8 C. Low -1 C.
SATURDAY: Cloudy. High 10 C. Low 3 C.
SUNDAY: Cloudy. High 13 C. Cloudy at night with a 60 per cent chance of showers. Low 5 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Organized crime’s newest adversary is an RCMP wire photo transmission network which opens this week. It will link seven major Canadian centres. The network will use the most modern equipment available to transmit and receive photos of mug shots, bad cheques, documents and even fingerprints. The equipment is in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Vancouver.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Health Minister Marc Lalonde has urged provinces to start injecting citizens with swine flu shots as vaccine becomes available during the next few days.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A Manitoba Pool elevator on Pacific Avenue was pushed over by a front-end loader into a vacant lot earlier today. The elevator, built in 1958, had the capacity of 1,300 tonnes, compared to Pool’s new North Hill elevator with 5,460 tonnes.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Lisa Sommerville, a lifeguard at the Sportsplex swimming pool, demonstrated new equipment making the pool wheelchair-accessible during the official reopening of the facility. The pool, which has been under renovation since August, also received a new liner, deck flooring and diving and swimming equipment at a cost of almost $500,000.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Don Gardner’s life literally passed before his eyes yesterday as he auctioned off the last of his stock after more than 30 years in the western wear business. Deal hunters hauled away thousands of dollars worth of jeans, suits, cowboy hats and belts through the door of the auction at the Keystone Centre. “It’s hard,” said Gardner, the proud former proprietor of Dirty Don’s Western Wear. “I’m shaking my head.” Since the mid-1970s, the store supplied locals, as well as ranchers and cowboys in town for Brandon’s numerous rodeos and fairs, with their duds. But it was western wear with style, the sort of clothes you could wear to a graduation, funeral or wedding. Gardner, 74, was forced to retire due to health problems and closed his Rosser Avenue shop on May 28.
TEN YEARS AGO
Thirteen-year-old Laramie Lockie of Goodlands qualified for the Manitoba Finals Rodeo and took top spot in the junior girls’ barrel racing event on the first night of the rodeo at the Keystone Centre. A new shock hit Hillary Clinton’s campaign Friday in the U.S. presidential race: The FBI is looking into whether there was classified information on a device belonging to the estranged husband of one of her closest aides. Adding to the drama of the stunning revelation: The FBI uncovered the emails during a sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner, the disgraced ex-congressman who is separated from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
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