Today’s top stories
The provincial government’s deficit is projected to be higher than expected due partly to surging costs from this summer’s wildfires. READ MORE
Monday is the start of Truth and Reconciliation Week in Brandon — and activities at the Riverbank Discovery Centre will include a new event showcasing Indigenous traditional clothing, beading and music. READ MORE
The fact the Brandon Wheat Kings have scored 11 goals in two games this season and are winless neatly encapsulates everything that is wrong with Western Hockey League club so far. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
A huge timberwolf led a posse of 12 farmers from Douglas on a four-mile chase before the 103-pound animal was destroyed.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mayor S.A. Magnacca served notice of his resignation as chairman of the Brandon Centennial Auditorium Committee.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A Killarney man is among six Manitobans chosen by the Tourist and Convention Association of Manitoba to receive good citizenship awards for 1975. Cyril LaVerne Britton will get his awards at a banquet next month in Winnipeg.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The great grey owl, composed to the last with its unblinking eyes, has beaten out a field of 88 nominees to become Manitoba’s provincial bird.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Religious exercises have been approved for Linden Lanes and Waverly Park schools. The exercises, which consist of the Lord’s Prayer and sometimes a Bible reading, take place prior to the start of the school day.
Students, staff and administrators celebrated the completed renovation of Earl Oxford School’s original wing today. Construction began in the summer of 1994 at a cost of $942,000.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A Brandon archivist concerned rural Manitoba history will fade away wants to show a photographer’s glimpse into the short life of what’s now a ghost town. Tom Mitchell recently found a pile of glass-plate negatives taken by Edward Walker among a collection of Lawrence Stuckey photographs. The dry-glass negatives are about 100 years old. Walker and his family came to Canada from England in 1895 and settled in Millwood, a small community next to the Assiniboine River between Binscarth and Russell. Although the community no longer exists, Walker’s photographs offer a glimpse into life in Millwood during the turn of the last century. Walker’s photographs are on display in the Brandon University library building.
TEN YEARS AGO
Liberal support in Manitoba has surged, putting the party neck-and-neck with the Conservatives province-wide and well ahead in Winnipeg, according to a new, independent poll. The Conservatives and Liberals both enjoy the support of 39 per cent of decided voters. Liberal support has grown by 10 percentage points since June. NDP support has fizzled, dropping by five points to 18 per cent.
A versatile new training centre at Assiniboine Community College will help to train law enforcement to expect the unexpected. The only one of its kind in Manitoba, the centre’s large training area, equipped with movable panels, will allow public safety workers, including police, to practise a variety of scenarios. The Public Safety Training Centre at the college’s Victoria Avenue East campus officially opened this week. It will allow trainees to practise high-risk scenarios, tactical training and self-defence. The college says the centre helps position it as a provincial leader in public safety training. It will be available for use by justice agencies across the country.
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