Today’s top stories
Roughly 250 people held a vigil in Brandon Friday evening to honour American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death a week and a half ago while speaking at a university in Utah. READ MORE
The sounds of drums and women’s voices in song echoed through Eighth and Ninth streets in downtown Brandon Friday morning as about 100 participants took part in the annual Grandmothers Walk. READ MORE
The Brandon Wheat Kings spotted the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors a four-goal lead and fell just short of the comeback, losing 6-4 in front of a large opening-night crowd of 4,281 at Assiniboine Credit Union Place on Friday. READ MORE
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Weather
SATURDAY: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of showers. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. High 18 C. Low 10 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. High 23 C. Low 8 C.
MONDAY: Sunny. High 24 C. Low 9 C.
TUESDAY: Sunny. High 24 C. Low 9 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Leading Aircraftsman B.B. (Burt) Nesbitt, 21, an Oak Lake airman, has won the annual truck roadeo at RCAF station at Lachine, Que.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Guy Laliberte, manager of the Prince Edward Hotel for the past seven years and a Brandon resident for 10 years, is chairman of the Advance Gifts Committee of the 1965 Community Chest. The first phase of Brandon’s 1965 Community Chest drive gets underway this week when canvassers begin the momentous task of hitting the $67,472 target set for this year’s campaign.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Flooding along the Ochre, Vermillion and Turtle rivers is forcing the evacuation of homes in Ochre River, Ste. Rose du Lac and McCreary — communities northeast of Riding Mountain National Park.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Rescuers dug frantically through scores of crushed buildings today, searching for an estimated 1,000 people entombed by a major earthquake that devastated central Mexico and left parts of the densely populated capital in flames and ruin.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
City council has once again voted to allow stores to open on certain public holidays and Sundays prior to Christmas, beginning Oct. 1.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
With 80 per cent of the continent’s narcotic-free hemp grown at Dauphin, and one of the world’s largest hemp fibre plants slated for construction next year, Dauphin is laying claim as Canada’s hemp capital. Hemp production was banned in Canada in 1938 because hemp and marijuana look exactly the same. Narcotic-free hemp was legalized again in 1998.
TEN YEARS AGO
Breast cancer screening in Manitoba has entered the digital age with the unveiling of the province’s first digital mammography unit at the Brandon Regional Health Centre. The new equipment promises to cut diagnostic time in half and improve information sharing between doctors, thanks to instantaneous electronic breast tissue scans.
Logan Thompson made 48 saves, and Braylon Shmyr and Tanner Kaspick each had two goals and an assist as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 4-2 in a pre-season game on Friday at Westman Place.
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