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Vol. 14 No. 26 | Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Brandon University Students Union is hoping to get more students to polling stations on Oct. 19.

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‘It’s No Secret’ campaign launched by BUSU

The Brandon University Students Union has launched a campaign in an effort to get more students to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming federal election.

The campaign called “It’s No Secret” is centred around student voter turnout, which in the 2011 federal election, saw only 38.8 per cent of youth aged 18-24 cast a vote, according to Elections Canada.

Aaron Thompson, BUSU president, says students feel disconnected from politics and that it’s playing a key role in the low voter turnout for youth in recent years.

“A lot of politicians use rhetoric that students can’t be engaged with,” Thompson told the Journal. “They use very difficult to understand language and they put up bar-riers.”

He says the voting aspect can feel meaningless to some students because he or she may not know exactly what platform to stand behind.

“That’s why we’re taking part in the campaign,” he added. “We’re trying to push students towards under-standing what the different platforms are, what they rep-resent, that kind of thing.

“Obviously communicating and getting the informa-tion they need to properly assess what the candidates stand for – which is something we’re planning on doing,” he continued. “We’re going to try and make the informa-tion very accessible to them.”

Thompson says Brandon-Souris candidates will be on campus the week leading up to the election, answering any questions students may have regarding each party’s platform. There are also plans for a candidates forum to be held as well.

BUSU is also looking to have polling stations closer to BU campus, making it more accessible for students to cast a ballot on election day.

“That’s one of the big issues is that we have so much on our plate already and then to go to the other side of the city to vote and go through all the efforts of registering ourselves to do this civic duty sometimes is a bit much for students,” Thompson said.

The federal election is slated for Oct. 19. For more in-formation on voting procedures, go online to www.elec-tions.ca.

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With 100 spots available for local people to book tables, it’s the best way to get a huge variety of items at great prices under one roof.

The charitable organi-zation hosts two massive garage sale events in the spring and fall each year. The fall event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 3 from 9

a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Mani-toba Room of the Keystone Centre.

Vendors include ev-erything imaginable, ac-cording to Cynamom Mychasiw United Way of Brandon CEO.

“It’s basically 100 ga-rage sales in one spot,” she said. “There is everything from baking and crafts to home party businesses and all types of garage sale items.”

There are sure to be trea-sures for every shopper during the event that at-tracts approximately 2,000 people each fall.

There are a limited num-ber of tables still available for people wishing to sell their items. Cost to book space is $25. City of Bran-don licencing fees apply if the booth is run by a busi-ness. Admission for the public to attend is $2 for anyone 12 years of age and older. The event is a great way for individual ven-dors to make some money, shoppers to find great bar-gains and the United Way to raise funds through ad-mission and table book-ings.

“Last fall, we brought in between $5,000 and

$6,000 dollars at the event,” said Mychasiw. “All money raised will go toward the 2015 United Way campaign which will be allocated to the 25 orga-nizations and 29 programs we support.”

Programs such as in school leadership, adult literacy and before and after school programs ben-efit from these funds. The United Way recently an-nounced its 2015 campaign goal is to raise $800,000.

For more information on the local United Way, visit www.brandonuw.ca or call 204-571-8929.

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What do you enjoy most about working at the Riverbank Discovery Centre?

Everyday is different. We do a lot of different things here. There’s a lot of variation in my job. I do a lot of different things. I’m obviously responsible for the Riv-erbank Discovery Centre and the river corridor but we also deliver tourism and operate Brandon tourism out of this facility too. We can spend the day working on a bunch of different projects.

What’s one thing that people may not know about you that you’d like to share with readers?

Riding horses is my passion and that’s the thing that if I can spare a couple of hours, that’s what I will go and do. I grew up riding. I got my first pony when I was three and I think I have probably owned a horse ever since and I still do. It lives at my sister’s house. That’s my go-to and when I’m really stressed, that’s what I go do and if I have a little bit of extra time, especially in the fall, that’s my favourite time to ride.

How has the Riverbank Discovery Centre evolved since its inception several years ago?

We’ve gone through lots of changes – some of them great and then in more recent years, some of them not so great. I think back to 1995 when the organization began and there was nothing here really and I didn’t live here. The area just wasn’t really accessible. It’s really kind of the vision and the foresight of the mayor and council back in that time during the 90s that there was even a movement to start developing the river corridor. I kind of think back to what it (riverbank) was during the summer of 2010 which was really our last normal summer I guess. There would be hundreds of people there throughout the year, especially in the summer months. We’ve recently gone through some struggles with the two major floods that we’ve had, but you know what, it’s still that special place in our com-munity and people still really care about the riverbank. That’s really what drives us to figure out what the next steps and the next plan for the river corridor will look like.

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Journal Q & A with Lois MacDonaldLois MacDonald is the manager of Riverbank development and tourism services in Brandon and is well-known in the

community for her role with Brandon First, a non-profit marketing organization. MacDonald, 40, spent a few minutes

recently with Journal editor Lanny Stewart, discussing her role in the community and the future of the riverbank in

general.

Two floods over the past few years devastated areas along the riverbank, how do the areas look nowadays?

Really what we’ve tried to do is kind of get the Dis-covery Centre back up and looking its best. That’s been a bit of a struggle this year because there’s been so much construction between us and Kirkcaldy Drive – putting in the retention pond and working on the dike. We work with Alternative Landscaping who are great community partners of ours and we really wanted to take this summer to try and just get the grounds of the Discovery Centre itself sort of back up to the level that we wanted it to be at and I think that we were pretty successful. We’re getting there. We just have to pri-oritize and focus on areas where we can have some development and additions that can be put out of flood levels hopefully and then looking at some of those lower areas and just determining how those can be re-mediated.

I understand a public workshop was held in Au-gust to help develop a plan for the riverbank for the next 20 years. How did that go and what exactly is the plan moving forward?

We had a public workshop and we had a lot of stake-holder and partner workshops. We met with well over 100 people just to talk about this area – how people have used this area and how people want to use this area going forward. The company that’s working with us on this initiative, since the workshops have taken place, have gone and compiled all of the information and we’re meeting to review that information and get a sense of where people want to go and what some of their ideas are. October will be spent working with the project advisory committee and working with the City of Brandon, who is obviously a key partner. Our job over the next month or so is to kind of figure out what are the most achievable items and priorities are as far as what slots into that 20-year plan. In November, we’ll come back to the partners and stakeholders and the community members that we met with and we’ll have another round of sharing with them, telling them, ‘OK, this is what you said and this is sort of the direc-

tion that we’re looking at taking this plan’ and then getting some feedback and input. This is the public’s riverbank. Everybody owns this river corridor and this huge park system, so it was really important to us that we had a lot of public engagement.

It was announced in May that Travel Manitoba had partnered with the Riverbank Discovery Cen-tre to provide services to visitors. How has that partnership worked thus far?

It’s working well. It really didn’t change what we do here a lot because we met all their criteria and minimum standards already. It’s enabled us to keep doing what we’re doing and then we obviously share all of our stats and information with Travel Manitoba throughout the season. It’s worked well and it’s nice to be included in that network. There’s not a lot of visitor centres that are open all-year long. Travel Manitoba is just finishing up their brand new visitor centre at The Forks (Winnipeg). There’s been a lot of technology and lots of new interactive experiences that will be part of that. We’re hoping that maybe some of those kinds of initiatives can roll out to some of the other Travel Manitoba centres in years to come and we’ll be happy to partner on that if that does happen.

You’ve been a board member of Brandon First for many years. What do you like about the organi-zation that’s played a key role in promoting Bran-don as a host city for events?

I love Brandon and I love promoting Brandon. Bran-don First is near and dear to my heart. I’m a founding board member actually and have kind of been part of the organization since the beginning. We’ve brought some really great events to our city and we’ve been able to showcase Brandon on a national and an inter-national scale. So every time we can do that, I believe that everyone in our community wins and I just think it’s so important to continue to highlight how great our city really is.


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the NDP over the past four years is currently “parked” with the Mani-toba Liberal Party, as is often the case between elections.

That means the Tories aren’t the real threat to the NDP’s re-election hopes — it’s the Liber-als. Given the disap-pointing performance of rookie Liberal leader Rana Bokhari, however, the NDP has good reason to be confident that much of its lost support will return in time to prevent a PC victory. It has hap-pened in each of the past four elections and, unless Bokhari exceeds low ex-pectations by performing

Recent news reports indicate that a detailed poll commissioned by the Manitoba NDP has found that province-wide support for the party has plummeted to slightly better than 20 per cent, and was below 20 per cent when the premier’s name was mentioned to respondents.

That is a significant drop in support since June, when Probe Re-search determined that the party was at 29 per cent throughout the prov-ince, and 34 per cent in Winnipeg. With the num-bers identical to those found by Probe in March, it appeared that the NDP had found its base level of support. If this new poll is accurate — the lat-est Probe numbers will be released in the next few days — it suggests that what appeared to be the NDP’s “base” has crum-bled by one-third in just three months.

If that is indeed the case, the situation is even more dire than a year ago, when a confidential poll conducted for the party concluded that the party faced “annihilation” if it entered the next campaign with Selinger as leader. The specific findings of that poll have never been released to the public, but a poll conducted by Probe last September found that support for the NDP was

at 30 per cent province-wide, and 38 per cent within Winnipeg.

Those numbers re-mained largely un-changed in polls conduct-ed by Probe in April and June of this year, but they have apparently dropped over the summer, along with the NDP’s faint hopes of re-election in next April’s provincial election.

If Team Selinger faced “annihilation” a year ago when it’s support was at 29 per cent province-wide, what would its fate be when at 20? Such a number would appear to signify an cataclysmic result that would cripple the party for more than one election cycle.

What conclusions should we draw from this information? Is a land-slide victory by Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives all but in-evitable?

While the latest polling numbers are no doubt so-bering (and perhaps sur-prising) for NDP MLAs, who showed swagger in this past spring’s legis-lative session, there are three important factors to keep in mind when as-sessing the severity of the party’s predicament.

First, voter support for the PC party remains largely unchanged since the 2011 election. Almost all of the support lost by

well during the campaign, will likely happen again in April.

Second, it is important to remember that the NDP has a huge advantage in seats and that will be a challenge for the Tories to overcome. With 37 of the legislature’s 57 seats, Selinger can afford to lose eight seats and still have a majority. Given that al-most all of the seats were won by large margins in 2011, and that the major-ity of those are in bedrock NDP territory, the odds of the Tories increasing their seat total from the current 19 to 29 remain daunt-

ing, polls results notwith-standing.

It is easy to list five or six NDP seats that could realistically fall to the To-ries next April, but identi-fying ten or eleven is far more difficult. Reaching that level will require significant vote-splitting between the NDP and Liberals and, as explained above, the odds of that occurring are currently remote.

Third, the organization-al strength of the Mani-toba NDP should never be discounted. They are very experienced in run-ning effective campaigns,

and possess the strategic strength and volunteer base to pour resources into vulnerable ridings, particularly within Win-nipeg.

Political polls can be useful tools, but they are too often extrapolated beyond their proper con-text. This may be one of those cases. Contrary to what the polls appear to suggest, the coming pro-vincial election may be far closer than people an-ticipate.

Deveryn Ross is a political commentator living in Brandon.

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OPINIONOPINIONTrudeau follows in Dewar’s tracks

It’s always a bit odd to see two trucks stuck in the mud. Maybe the first driver didn’t know about the mud. But what was the second driver thinking?

It’s similarly baffling to watch the Federal Liberals campaigning on the same economic plan the Manitoba NDP has been running since 2009.

Canada’s economy has declined by 0.2 per cent and 0.1 per cent in the last two quarters and that qualifies as a re-cession. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is hitting the panic button and promising to run deficits of up to $10 billion per year for up to three years to kick start the economy. He says borrowing billions will create jobs.

Maybe Mr. Trudeau should take a look at the Manitoba NDP’s record. The province’s unemployment num-bers have been stuck for years. And yet Manitoba continues to spin deeper and deeper into debt. It’s worth going back over the tracks to see how we got into this mess.

Back when Premier Greg Selinger was finance minister, he rolled out stimulus funding to create jobs. But he bragged that he wouldn’t have to borrow money.

“Most jurisdictions in Canada will fund stimulus through deficit,” said then Finance Minister Selinger when he de-livered the 2009 Budget. He continued to say he would be “implementing ini-tiatives that are sustainable within a bal-

anced budget.”His pride came before Manitoba’s fall

back into the red.In 2009, the deficit came in at $555

million. The economy declined by 0.9 per cent and unemployment was 5.2 per cent.

When Rosann Wowchuk took over as finance minister, she was honest enough to call her budget a deficit. But she promised to get the books balanced again within five years.

In 2010, Manitoba’s deficit was $467 million. As with other provinces, the economy bounced back with 2.5 per cent GDP growth. But unemployment actually went up to 5.4 per cent.

Stan Struthers was the next one left holding the budget bag as finance minis-ter. He increased the PST without the le-gally required referendum. He promised the budget would be balanced by 2016.

Even with millions more in revenue from the PST hike, Manitoba ran a defi-cit of $583 million in 2012. Unemploy-ment was 5.3 per cent.

In 2014, the last full year of numbers available, Manitoba ran yet another deficit of $424 million. Guess what hap-pened with economic growth and unem-ployment? Almost nothing. GDP growth was 2.4 per cent and unemployment was 5.4 per cent.

But now Grew Dewar is finance min-ister.

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“Industry is telling us not to take our foot off the gas,” said Minister Dewar in his budget speech. “Our government also has a long-standing commitment to return to a balanced fiscal position.”

So he’s spinning further into debt, but the long-standing commitment to bal-anced budget will remain at a standstill for the foreseeable future.

Maybe the Ministry of Finance’s own numbers aren’t convincing enough. Maybe some outside perspective would help?

Moody’s, a bond rating agency, down-graded Manitoba’s credit rating this summer. DBRS, another rating agency, didn’t immediately move to downgrade,

but stated the province has “weak fiscal discipline.” How did Minister Dewar re-spond?

“We have a plan,” Dewar said. “Our plan is working.”

That’s an amazing statement.But even more amazing is that, de-

spite all of this, Mr. Trudeau is looking at Minister Dewar’s plan and nodding his head. He still believes that billions in new debt will create jobs and deficits are temporary. And he wants to run this plan nationwide.

Todd MacKay is the prairie director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

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Random musings from the keyboardA picture is worth a

1,000 words.That is very true when

it comes to those instruc-tional diagrams that come with about 99.9 percent of all items that are bought for home assembly. Un-fortunately, or fortu-nately, if you’re blowing off steam, most of those words cannot be printed in a family publication (feel free to use your imagination at his point).

I recently had the dis-pleasure of buying a small piece of almost-ready-to-assemble furniture. In the showroom, it looked like it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to put together, keeping in mind the store probably had five of their top employ-ees working on this proj-ect in the back room for three days and one was probably an unemployed engineer who majored in interpreting blueprints.

Upon opening the box, there are a list of items you should check

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for – all the nuts, bolts, washers and unidentified ‘doo-hickies’ were num-bered and the instruc-tions showed how many you should have. That’s simple enough. We’re on our way to furniture bliss.

I unpack the pieces and at the bottom of the box are the instructions. There are no words in any lan-guage, so nothing could be lost in interpretation since the box said “Made in China.”

The instructions were shown in seven some-what large illustrations. Each illustration had the pieces needed, shown and numbered. Then the fun starts. There are lines running in every direc-tion and intersecting at what appears to be im-portant junctures which are shown. To say these

‘junctures’ are somewhat confusing would be an understatement.

“Part A should be joined at part C with a three quarter-inch screw but a line with a washer and bolt intersect on their way to part E which should be facing the op-posite direction.”

Having misplaced some of the fasteners somewhere in the house, I began the search for the missing pieces. Once found, a return to the ‘how to put this ^%*^%^&)(* thing together in seven easy steps’ has now taken two hours. Many curses to the gods and numerous cries of “why did I buy this thing?”

After calming down, I did what any reasonably half-insane adult would do. I called a licensed car-penter friend who came over and put it together.

I couldn’t return it since the surface finish had been scratched numerous times. A picture truly is

worth a 1,000 words...but sometimes a 1,000 words telling you how to do it would be better.

Another recent incident brought to light just how far removed we are from our ancestors way of life. Most of our ancestors did everything for them-selves. They built their homes, raised their own food, were self reliant.

An acquaintance had asked his teenage son to get a philips screwdriver for him. His son replied, saying he thought it was too early for his dad to have a drink. Besides, he wasn’t familiar with the philips brand of vodka (why an under age teen would know about vodka brands is a subject for an-

ther time).The young man also

commented he didn’t know a screwdriver was named after ‘Philip’ and asked if any were named Charles or Thomas?

At least when he found the tools, he knew which end of a hammer to hold and what a pair of pliers was supposed to be used for…

The election campaign plods on. Why doesn’t a federal party promise that if they win the elec-tion, they won’t bother us until the next campaign four years down the road? That might garner some support.

Vegas Vic still hasn’t put up any odds for the vote. It seems gamblers

aren’t that interested in betting who is going to run the country for the next four years.

If Donald Trump be-came president of the United States, would guys start wearing their hair like the Donald? Af-ter all, some people want to look like a winner no matter what.

To those folks who are still driving and holding a cellphone to their ear, don’t complain when you get nailed for distracted driving. A lot of other drivers don’t want your distraction hitting their vehicle.

Thought for the week: In about three weeks, the federal campaign will be over. Will you miss it?

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Signs you may have a food sensitivityWhen it comes to food

allergies, making a diag-nosis is pretty black and white. The typical aller-gic reaction occurs im-mediately after you ingest a certain food, and the symptoms — often a rash, hives, or swelling — are unmistakable.

But food sensitivities are a much sneakier sort. In many cases, symptoms don’t occur until several hours or even days af-ter you eat a problematic food, and even then, they can be vague and difficult to link to your diet.

In the United States and Canada, food sensitivi-ties have become an epi-demic, largely fuelled by the process of genetically modifying food. Gluten, dairy, corn and soy are among the most common culprits. An estimated 18

million Americans suffer from gluten sensitivity alone, and those are the people who have figured it out. Millions more indi-viduals experience symp-toms suggestive of food sensitivities every day, and have yet to identify the cause.

The following are four signs you might have a food sensitivity, along with a brief explanation of how each symptom oc-curs.

Weight gain or inability to lose weight

You’ve tried every diet out there, but nothing seems to work for you. You’re constantly hungry, no matter how much you eat.

When you suffer from a food sensitivity, it causes chronic inflamma-

tion, which impairs your brain’s ability to com-municate with hormones. One of these hormones is leptin, which is released after you eat so that you feel satisfied. Without the brain receiving messages from leptin, you continue to feel hungry even after a big meal.

FatigueNo matter how much

sleep you get, you are ex-hausted. You find yourself dozing off during the day and are constantly grab-bing sugary and starchy snacks for energy.

When your body is sen-sitive to a certain food, it causes an inflammatory response in your diges-tive system, causing your adrenal glands to release cortisol as an anti-inflam-matory. This puts extra

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stress on your adrenal glands and leaves you feeling fatigued.

Migraines and headaches

You notice that your headaches tend to oc-cur when you eat certain foods – several hours af-ter a meal, or even when you wake up the next morning.

A headache of any kind is a sign of inflammation in your head — hence the reason you treat it with NSAIDs. It’s not surpris-ing, then, that food sensi-tivities could be to blame. A recent study showed that 56 per cent of people who had been diagnosed with migraine headaches actually had an underly-ing gluten sensitivity.

Joint painYou’re all-over achy,

but there doesn’t seem to be a logical reason. You’re too young for ar-thritis, but you’re not a hardcore athlete either.

Here we go again: food sensitivities equal inflam-mation.

Here, you’re experi-encing an inflammatory response in your joints.

If any of these symp-toms resonate with you, there’s a good chance food sensitivities are to blame.

On Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m., join me for a free live talk where I’ll delve deeper into how food sensitivities can keep you from los-ing weight, plus intro-duce simple strategies for eliminating problematic foods.

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Evolution not revolution: (Un)friendly prairiesCultural discrimination

and race-based violence – it’s hard to fathom that this circumstance still ex-ists in the western world. Still, there it is daily on television and on the in-ternet as a constant re-minder that while we’ve come so far in recogniz-ing basic human rights, we still have a long way to go.

In Canada, we shake our heads and wag a dis-approving finger at our American neighbours, distancing ourselves from such unsavoury behav-iour. We are proud to de-clare “that doesn’t happen here.” We can point to the growing cultural diver-sity of our prairie towns and award ourselves a gold star for multi-cultur-alism. But are we truly as enlightened and inclusive as we proclaim? Does ra-cial bigotry still exist on the prairies?

I was taking a tour of a community not that long ago with a very proud mayor and he was shining a spotlight on the thriving commerce in his town. He pointed out longstand-


ing businesses, celebrat-ing the proprietors by name and their service to the community. One es-tablishment seemed to be excluded from the tour, so I pointed it out to ask about it. My guide waved his hand dismissively, “Oh, the Koreans own that” and simply carried on as though that build-ing and enterprise didn’t matter.

While he didn’t say anything overtly nasty, the mayor did not address the business owner by name as he had with all others, just a nationality. Further, it wasn’t “a Ko-rean fellow/family”, but rather the Koreans, as if the whole country had in-vaded and had conspired to take over the country by running a small in-dependent business in a farming town.

I frequently have op-portunities to visit com-munities and get im-mersed in meetings and events with various stakeholder groups. Even in those towns, blessed with an influx of immi-gration, I seldom see the

full scope of cultural di-versity around the table as part of committees and boards, nor evidence to support that an invitation had even been extended. I can imagine, if the shoe was on the other foot, how terribly isolating that must be.

It was just two years ago that a restaurateur closed up shop in a Mani-toba town of 1,800 after citing a series of horrific incidents which made her feel unwelcome in the community. She not only closed her business, but also left town.

If you’ve ever found yourself in conversa-tion which includes the dialogue “I’m not racist, but …” chances are the statement that follows will speak to the underly-ing current of intolerance that exists locally. Yes, in 2015, a problem exists. We can’t turn a blind eye and say (truthfully) that this doesn’t happen in our home towns.

This will come back to bite those communities who don’t step up to ad-dress it. This becomes

especially critical when the best option to address the shortfall of available doctors in rural settings is to recruit internationally from overseas. Will we become welcoming and genuinely inclusive when our own health is on the line?

It’s important to re-member that we aren’t that many generations re-moved from an era where our communities were

first built through the ef-forts of a cultural mosaic of new Canadians. It’s somewhat ironic that it may be a new wave of immigrants that breathes new life into these ru-ral settings and actually serves to maintain and grow our towns now too.

Vern May spent 20 years in the school of ‘hard knocks’ as a touring pro-fessional wrestler across

Canada. Now retired from the ring, Vern grap-ples with the challenges of economic growth and resilience in rural Mani-toba, serving as the Eco-nomic Development Of-ficer for the Minnedosa and Area Community De-velopment Corporation. He aspires to engage his generation to take leader-ship of the steps our com-munities take next.

The Kidney Ride, Glide and Stride event took place on Sunday, Sept. 20 in Brandon. The run/walk is a fundraiser for the Manitoba branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.


The engine lying at the bottom of the bridge.Photo submitted

The 1903 Brandon bridge collapseOn Sept. 4, 1903 the wooden approach to the First

Street Bridge gave way as a new Port Huron steam engine was moving across the approach to get onto the actual bridge span across the Assiniboine River. The engine fell approximately 20 feet to the river bank below, landing upside down. Tragically, the operators, William Curle and Richard Chambers, lost their lives in this accident as they were caught beneath the engine. Curle farmed in the Jus-tice area. Chambers meanwhile, was an employee of the Brandon agent for the Port Huron Company.

Curle’s parents had moved from Glasgow, Scotland to Mount Forrest, Ont., and then on to Stonewall in 1878. In 1881, the Curle family moved to a homestead in the Jus-tice district north of Brandon (Curle was born in 1843 in Scotland). In 1881, Curle took up his own homestead in the Justice district. Previous to this, Curle had been a fire-man stoking boilers on steam ships on the Great Lakes. Curle appears to have prospered as he owned a portable steam engine by 1900. In 1903, he decided to purchase a steam traction engine and settled on a new Port Huron engine. He took delivery in Brandon and had to move the engine home himself. It was on this move that he had to travel over the First Street bridge. Chambers accompa-nied Curle for some reason, perhaps to aid him driving the engine as the bridge and associated street would have lots of traffic.

Unfortunately little is known about Chambers at this time.

Bridge collapses caused by a steam engine moving over the bridge were not uncommon in the pioneer era. There were a variety of reasons for these collapses. Treat-ed or creosoted timbers were not commonly used at the time in municipal bridges leading to rapid deterioration of bridges. However, the chief cause was that many bridg-es were built too lightly for steam engines which were rapidly evolving. Farmers wanted more power, which in turn, meant steam engines became bigger and heavier. Many bridges built previous to 1900 were built with the idea that they would carry nothing heavier than a loaded grain wagon. Grain wagons, at the time, usually car-ried around 30 bushels of wheat or approximately 1,800 pounds with perhaps the wagon weighing another 1,000


pounds along with a team that, depending on the breed of horses used, may weigh another 2,000 pounds for a total weight around 5,000 pounds. Steam engines rapidly ex-ceeded this weight between the metal in the machine and the necessary fuel and water that the engine had to car-ry. So moving engines over bridges was always fraught with the danger that the bridge would give way. There are reports from this time that a custom thresher at Chater just east of Brandon always moved to a custom job just north of Brandon by railing his equipment on the CPR branch line that used to run from Chater to Minnedosa via Forrest. The line ran close enough to the farm they were going to and there were handy loading docks to load and unload machinery. Of course in those days, railways were more accommodating to local traffic. But the use of the branch line indicates the issues involved in moving steam engines around the countryside.

Soon after the accident, Curle’s sons retrieved the en-gine. An attached photo shows the engine upside down under the bridge with a heavy rope fall (block and tackle) hanging above the engine. Today, with modern cranes, backhoes and bulldozers, this job would be a ‘morning’s work’. In the pioneer era, when all the Curle brothers may have had was access to heavy timbers, a heavy rope fall and perhaps a couple of heavy jacks, righting this engine would have been a daunting task. Close examination of the image indicates that the rope fall was being attached to the centre of the rear wheel visible and, if so, it ap-pears that they were going to roll the engine over on to its side and then roll it on to its wheels. Once on its wheels, it would have been relatively easy to move the engine up the river bank. In this case, the rope fall was prob-ably attached above the engine to heavy timbers running between the bridge pier visible on the right and timber piles visible on the left. One question is whether the Curle brothers were using teams of horses to pull on the free end of the rope fall or whether they had a winch of some sort. Unfortunately the photo does not show details of how the rope fall was operated.

However, the Curle brothers managed to do it. They retrieved the engine and made the necessary repairs to it which cost the grand sum of $67 according to reports

at the time. One of the images accompanying this story shows the engine at work threshing later in the fall of 1903. This image is interesting by itself as it appears that the Curles were threshing from stacks as there are sheaves piled on the ground ahead of the thresher and no sheaf wagons are visible. As no snow is visible on the ground, one wonders what changed as it was less work to feed the sheaves into the thresher as the wagons hauled them in. Stacking the sheaves was usually done when bin space ran out and the grain handling system had no space for further deliveries. Sheaves were then stacked to pro-tect them from the weather. In this time period, the grain handling system rapidly became ‘plugged’ at harvest due to the rapid expansion of acres under cultivation. As grain movement to the east largely stopped when the Great Lakes froze over, sheave stacks were normally threshed in the spring when movement resumed. The thresher does not appear to have a self feeder but rather a table on which the sheaves were forked and then pushed into the machine by hand after the twine was cut. The machine also appears to have an apron stacker, but yet the straw pile is higher than the stacker. As apron stackers did not throw the straw too far, how the straw pile got so high would be interest-ing to determine.

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It’s been a great year for beets!

It seems every person you speak to has beets on offer – and who am I to refuse their earthly offer-ings?

While beets may seem a little intimidating to those who aren’t sure what to do with those dirt-caked purple earth gems, the truth is that beets can be amazingly simple to prepare. For this recipe, beets were paired with a

simple roasted chicken and carrots. Everything was basted with the same balsamic garlic sauce and everything was cooked on the BBQ.

The fl avours of late summer abound with the simple dish. Serve with a salad made from beet greens and you’ve got a complete meal.

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Rinse and peel:• 4 large beets• 6 fat carrots.

Slice the beets about 1/2 inch thick and cut the carrots in half. Set aside.

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When there’s 25 min-utes left on the chicken countdown timer, place carrots and beets onto the grill on either side of the casserole dish and brush with the chicken basting

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The Manitoba Arts Council offi ce is now open in the A.R. McDiarmid Civic Complex.

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Manitoba Arts Council offi ce now available in Brandon

An office that provides better access and service to the arts and cultural community in Westman opened recently in the Wheat City.

The Manitoba Arts Council office, lo-cated within the Cultural Resource Centre at the City of Brandon’s A.R. McDiarmid Civic Complex, is now considered the lo-cal MAC hub and will provide support for local artisans such as funding for training, professional development and touring.

Esther Bryan, manager of community development with the City of Brandon, says the not-for-profit organization is a funding body for all disciplines of art – whether it’s literary, performing, music or any other discipline.

“They’re the ones that will help an emerging artist get established, get going, make all the right connections and enter that kind of work,” Bryan added.

She says traditionally people in the area who have looked for support from MAC have had to drive to the head office in

Winnipeg. “This definitely is an added benefit that

they’re being able to provide and we’re very happy to be able to provide it with them,” Bryan said. “It’s a win-win all the way around for the artists and the city of Brandon and for the MAC organization itself.”

Nadine Delisle, director of communi-cations and community engagement for MAC says having an office in Brandon brings MAC closer to the people and orga-nizations in the area.

“It allows us to get out into the com-munity – whether it’s the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba or to organiza-tions or individuals who are creating art in the Westman area – it gives us better access to all of the activities that are hap-pening in the region.”

The MAC office in Brandon will be open the third Thursday of each month (1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) and the following Friday (9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.). For more informa-tion, call 1-8660-994-2787 (ext. 0421) or by emailing [email protected].

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If you have a knack for solving puzzles and a need for speed, the Awesome Race for Breath is designed for you.

The race is organized by the Manitoba Lung Association and raises funds for people coping with lung disease. Gail Campbell, Westman event coordinator for the Manitoba Lung Association, says the event is based on the popular TV series “The Amazing Race.”

“We wanted something fun and familiar as a fundraising event,” said Campbell in a release. “It’s a race, but it’s hardly a test of anyone’s athletic ability.”

The Awesome Race is set for Saturday, Oct. 24 in Brandon from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event is free to enter, but each team must raise at least $200 before they toe the starting line.

The race will have up to 40 teams of two dashing around Brandon to pit stops hosted by local businesses. Each pit stop will have a challenge for entrants to complete before they can continue racing.

By registering early, teams can earn bump cards that let them jump ahead a place if there’s a line-up at a pit stop. Raising more money also has advantages – the team that raises the most money gets a fi ve-

minute head start.The next early registration

deadline is Sept. 19.“The race is about having fun

while completing sometimes goofy challenges, all the while, raising money for a good cause,” Campbell said.

Last year’s winners, Rick and Jerrick Haywood, will be back to defend their title. The father and son team destroyed the course last year, fi nishing in less than three hours.

“We’re in it to win it,” says the younger Haywood. “Last year was a lot of fun and a great bonding experience for us.”

If someone can’t or doesn’t wish to race, Campbell says there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer at race headquarters or at pit stops.

“But they have to be discreet,” Campbell said. “The location of the pit stops are kept secret until race day.”

For more information about entering Awesome Race for Breath, call the Manitoba Lung Association’s Westman offi ce at 204-725-4230. Or visit the Awesome Race for Breath webpage.

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Art Oscar’s “Old Field, Old Farm, New Hope.” Photos submitted

New exhibitions have been unveiled at AGSMThree new exhibitions have opened for

the fall season at the Art Gallery of South-western Manitoba.

In the main gallery, new works by New York-based Manitoban artist Jillian Mc-Donald, and Brandon-based Tahltan artist Peter Morin, explore the dark underlying stories of the prairie landscape. Mean-while, in the community gallery, Brandon-based painter Art Oscar presents a series of paintings that draw attention to the mysticism, bareness, solitude, and com-plexity of the prairies.

McDonald’s exhibition “The Thaw” combines video, painting, and installation, which she developed through a residency at the AGSM in March of 2015. Inspired by the region’s natural landscape, and working with over 20 volunteer actors from the community, McDonald filmed on location throughout Riding Mountain Na-tional Park, Virden, Souris, and Brandon. The participants masked and costumed in shades of white, acted out animals - both predator and prey – inhabiting the near-ly-still prairie while it transformed from winter to spring. Working in response to McDonald’s project, Morin will pres-ent a new body of work titled “Glacier.” Morin’s practice investigates the impact between Indigenous cultural practices and settler colonialism, often taking shape as performance as well as object making and images. In this exhibition, Morin looks

at the glacier as a metaphor for erasure and the violence performed on the land through colonization. He’s working in a variety of media and transforming famil-iar objects, such as coronation china and pages from the John James Audubon’s Birds of America.

In the community gallery, Oscar’s paint-ings in “Prairie Variations” weave togeth-er personal recollection with local history through the use of geometric shapes and dreamlike settings that are at once deeply local and otherworldly. He is interested in the land as it is marked with traces of past use and memory, with collapsing farmhouses, grain elevators, or abandoned railroad tracks dotting the vast expanses of fields and sky. The tenuous buildings appear to be in constant danger of being absorbed into the land around them, acting as reminders of the numerous ghost towns and vanished villages.

The exhibitions will remain free and open to the public until Nov. 14 in the main gallery and Oct. 31 in the community gallery. The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba is located at 710 Rosser Avenue. It can be accessed either from the Town Centre parkade, or from the first floor of the Town Centre Mall through the eleva-tors near the library. Parking in the Town Centre is free for AGSM visitors.

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Plowing Days coming to Boissevain

Using everything from horses and walking plows to modern day equipment, competitors will be vy-ing for top honours at this year’s Manitoba Plowing Days.

Scheduled for Oct. 3-4, this is the first time the event has been held in the Boissevain area. The an-nual competition, hosted by the Manitoba Provincial Plowing Association, is held throughout the prov-ince each year with this fall’s competition is tak-ing place five miles east of the junction of Highways 3 and 10.

The general public is welcome to attend the event, which will include a number of different classes based on the equipment used.

“The sulky class is a ba-sic plow used in the 1920s and 1930s with few adjust-ments,” explained Barb Boundy, secretary for the organization.

Pulled by horses, the plow is guided by an in-dividual walking beside the equipment. A modern sulky plow includes a spot for the driver to sit on top while the unit is pulled by horses.

“There will also be vin-tage tractor classes where the equipment is an old, base model and conven-

tional tractor classes with the modern equipment be-ing used,” Boundry said. She says the group is pre-paring for half a dozen tractor plows and between 10-15 horse-drawn plows.

The event gives specta-tors the opportunity to see the progress in farming equipment over the years and the skill and knowl-edge needed to use each outfit.

Competitors are judged on a number of criteria during the match including how straight the furrows are, how uniform the plot is and if a good seed bed has been made.

“The whole idea is to create a good seed bed for planting,” Boundry said.

“They need to completely plow the whole plot of land and prepare nice straight rows for planting.”

Plots are measured out for each competitor and range in size from 38 feet by 200 feet for the sulky classes and 20 metres by 100 metres for the tractor classes. Those in the trac-tor class have a time limit of three and a half hours to complete their plot.

There is no charge for the public to attend the event. Spectators are re-minded that the match will take place in an open field and are encouraged to bring warm jackets to protect them from the ele-ments.

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“It’s really a fun day and it’s interesting for people to come and see the horses working,” Boundy said.

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Winners from the event in Boissevain will move on to the Canadian Plowing Championships to be held in B.C. in 2016.

MPI offers new options to eliminate deductible for victims of vehicle vandalism

Manitoba Public Insurance re-cently announced new options to eliminate deductibles for victims of vehicle vandalism.

Manitobans who insure their ve-hicles with a deductible package of $100 or $200 will now qualify to have their deductible reduced to zero for vandalism claims.

This change in coverage by the province is following an amend-ment to the Automobile Insurance Coverage Regulation.

Last year, there were about 10,000 vandalism claims opened with MPI. Vehicle vandalism came to the fore-front earlier this year after a rash of criminal incidents within the capi-tal region. MPI, Manitoba Justice, community representatives and the Winnipeg Police Service are com-mitted to reducing this crime.

This policy change – which will automatically benefit approximate-ly 75 per cent of all Manitoba Public Insurance customers who currently

have the optional $100 and $200 deductible packages – will result in a minimal premium adjustment of $3 to $5 per year, which is ex-pected to apply to policy renewals and reassessments effective March 1, 2016 or later.

The average cost of a vandalism claim is about $1,300.

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Local employers hiring more people with disabilities

Local employers are hiring more peo-ple with disabilities, says Tracy Williams, executive director of Westman Employ-ment Services in Brandon.

She says over the last four to five years, there has been an increase in support and participation from local employers and is hoping Disability Employment Aware-ness Month – an initiative in October proclaimed by the province of Manitoba back in 2012 – will continue to increase

the amount of interested business owners looking to add someone with a disability.

“The biggest thing is getting the atten-tion out there and educating the commu-nity as a whole as well as the employers in this community,” Williams told the Journal.

She says when it comes to providing the right fit for those that walk through the doors at Westman Employment Ser-vices, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done. Staffers at WES spend a lot of time with each individual; this means getting to know the person, their skill-


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set, their abilities and figuring out what drives them.

“If the person is truly interested in what they’re doing, anybody is teachable,” Williams said. “It’s no different than you or I or anyone else. Ideally we want a job that fits their interests and we find a posi-tion based on that.”

This means no ‘charity jobs’ for any of the WES clients, Williams says.

“I don’t want an employer to hire somebody because they think it’s the right thing to do. I want the person to hire somebody with a disability because they truly feel that they can give something to that business,” Williams said. “It’s those employers who look at it as a charity that I try and educate because really, at the end of the day, if an employer gives somebody with a disability a charity posi-

tion, that employer is never going to look at that individual as part of the team.

“I try and really steer clear of those situations,” she added.

A conference organized by Williams in Brandon, which began on Sept. 30, wrapping up on Oct. 2, jumpstarted the month-long DEAM initiative in West-man. For more information on Disability Employment Awareness Month, go on-line to www.deam-mb.ca.

Williams, who is also the president of the Canadian Association for Supported Employment, says that between WES and Career Connections (other supported em-ployment agency in Brandon), approxi-mately 250 individuals with disabilities are serviced by the two organizations an-nually.

High school football previewBrandon’s three high school varsity

gridiron squads are once again battling this fall in the Winnipeg High School Football League.

Crocus Plains head football coach Kev-in Boyd says the WHSFL provides a wide variety of opponents and the opportunity to compete against some of the top teams in the province.

Meanwhile, Neelin head coach Rob-ert Cullen says the play in the league is probably the highest you will see in high school sports.

“Games are always at top speed and very entertaining,” he added.

The WHSFL features three varsity divi-sions – ranging from A to AAA – and a junior varsity category. Crocus Plains and Vincent Massey compete in the 10-team Kas Vidruk (AA) division after playing AAA last year. Meanwhile, Neelin is bat-tling in the 11-team Andy Currie (A) divi-sion.

While providing exciting competition, high school football also benefits student-athletes in other ways. Vincent Massey head football coach Mike Steeves says that players might not remember the games in 20 years, but the programs promote such qualities as pride, commitment, work ethic

and perseverance that can benefit players on and off the field.

Crocus PlainsEarly on this season, Boyd has been

pleased with the character his group has demonstrated.

“The biggest thing that has impressed me so far is the maturity, leadership and dedication that the team has displayed,” Boyd said. “Our practices and offseason demands are quite high and these young men have put the work in to be better. They are a true family and they make sure that each are accountable on and off the field.”

A strength for the Plainsmen this sea-son is in the trenches. The offensive and defensive lines are big, aggressive, and play with passion, Boyd says. The side-line mentor also believes the Plainsmen defence and kicking game, with Mike Ol-ive’s strong leg, are strengths.

Crocus Plains is led this season by cap-tains Cole Kardash, (linebacker), Colton Swallow (safety), Doug Wilkinson (line-backer), Sam Esler (quarterback), Cody Mauws (lineman) and Logan Boyd (offen-sive line).

As for newcomers, Boyd noted the Plainsmen have been very fortunate to get some top players from the Westman Youth Football League. Running back Ri-ley Keele, who was part of the program

last year, has been a great addition to the varsity squad.

NeelinWhile the Spartans might not always

score the most points, coach Cullen knows he can always count on a good effort from his troops this season.

“Our athletes will play hard from the opening whistle to the final whistle no matter what the outcome on the score-board,” he said.

Early this season, Cullen has been im-pressed by the younger athletes on the squad and is impressed with the team speed overall.

Some of those young players will be playing key roles on the field for the Spar-tans this year.

“We may not be big or have much depth currently, but everyone seems to have an extra step,” Cullen said.

Cullen also likes the team’s athleticism and the defence, believing it’s a team strength this season.

Among the top players back this sea-son for Neelin are: Eric Jenkins (running back/linebacker), Lincoln Zentner (run-ning back/linebacker), Lane Tufts (run-ning back/defensive back), Ethan Medwid (fullback/lineman), Michael Cullen (line-man), Dayton Black (quarterback/defen-sive end), Brett Descender, (offensive line/defensive line), Dawson Harris (receiver/

defensive back) and Justin Mulvaney (re-ceiver/defensive back). Newcomers ex-pected to play roles include Sean Coey (receiver/defensive back), Clark Nachigall (defensive end/wide receiver) and Evan Nachtigall (quarterback).

Vincent MasseyIt’s been an interesting first few weeks

of the season for the Vikings. Due to grad-uation, Vincent Massey knew it was going to be young, but injuries have also changed the team’s depth. The Vikings regularly start three Grade 9 student-athletes on the offensive line which is unusual for them.

“It’s been learning as we go and filling some holes. It’s has been trial and error,” Steeves said.

In the face of challenges and adversity, Steeves and his coaching have witnessed their players develop as young men. The head coach says it’s been inspiring.

“All the young guys on our team have all rose above and beyond what we might have expected of them,” he added.

As the season has progressed, Steeves has been impressed with the development of the club’s character and believes the Vi-kings have a bright future.

He says the youngsters have been led by the leadership of the Grade 12 players.

“They have taken the younger guys un-der their wing and are mentoring them.”

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The Brandon Wheat Kings leave the ice after falling in a shootout by a score of 2-1 on Friday night in the club’s home opener to the Swift Current Broncos. The Wheat Kings rebounded on Satur-day night, defeating the Broncos in the back half of a home-and-home to start the WHL season.

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The Western Hockey League recently unveiled its list of the top 125 players in WHL history as selected by a committee of league historians.

The list includes WHL greats from the league’s inception in 1966 through to players that suited up as recently as last season. In total, 88 forwards, 27 defencemen, and 10 goaltenders made the list. Players were selected based on a combination of the impact they had while playing in the WHL and their careers upon graduating from the league.

Among the players selected were 13 former members of the Brandon Wheat Kings, including four members of the 1979 Western Hockey League championship club – defenceman Brad McCrimmon and the high scoring forward line of Laurie Bochman, Ray Allison and Brian Propp, who is the hockey club’s all time leading scorer with 511 points, including 219 goals.

Others named include goaltenders Glen

Hanlon and Trevor Kidd, defenceman Wade Redden and forwards Bill Derlago, Brayden Schenn, Eric Fehr, Marty Murray, Ray Ferraro and Ron Chipperfi eld.

Of the Wheat Kings chosen, seven are native Manitobans – Chipperfi eld (Minnedosa), Murray (Lyleton), Derlago (Beulah), Fehr (Winkler), Kidd (Dugald) as well as local products Hanlon and Boschman.

Joining Hanlon and Boschman as Brandon natives on the list is former Kamloops Jr. Oiler Dean Evason.

As a part of the WHL’s 50th season celebrations, fans will be able to have their say in October alongside the committee by way of an online vote available at www.WHL.ca. Beginning in January, the WHL will count down and release the top 50 WHL players of all-time.

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Baseball’s most loveable losers are shedding their images and heading to the playofffs.

New York Mets, whose first-season claim to fame was manager Casey Sten-gel’s rhetorical question ‘Can’t anyone here play this game?’ has stuck with them for decades, are a solid first in the National League East and are heading for a di-visional series with Los Angeles Dodgers.

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— the Cubs, can you be-lieve it! — will be back in the playoffs for the first time since 2008 and are focusing on their first World Series title in 107 years.

One hundred and seven years! That was 1908, before anyone other than a couple of dozen of to-day’s oldest people in the world were even alive.

Back to the Future II pro-claimed back when the movie was made in 1986 that the Cubs were world champions in 2015, even though it was written into the script just because it was so unlikely and odd.

But the Cubs aren’t an oddity. They’re a solid ball club with former boy genius Theo Epstein at the GM helm and ex-Tam-pa Bay bench guru Joe Maddon in the dugout. The Cubs youth move-ment is paying off, with Anthony Rizzo and Kris

Bryant both on pace for 30 homers and 100 RBI. Pitching-wise, the Cubs are led by Jake Arietta, who has taken the ma-jors by storm. Arietta, a former Baltimore Oriole who was a mediocre 10-5 last season with the Cubs, has had the most spectac-ular breakout season of any pitcher in MLB. He won his 19th game of the season in mid-September and his road stats (12-1, 1.72 ERA) are spec-tacular. Since the all-star game, he has been 9-1 with an 0.93 ERA, mean-ing the Cubs are almost a certainty to win when he takes the mound.

Meanwhile, the Mets went back and forth for top spot in the NL East with Washington until acquiring slugging out-fielder Yeonis Cespedes in a late-July deadline deal with Detroit Tigers. Since Aug. 1, when the Mets trailed the Nats by

one game, New York has played better than .700 baseball and left Wash-ington in the dust. Ces-pedes crushed 17 hom-ers and drove in 42 runs in his first 42 games as a Met, and with veteran third baseman David Wright back after being injured in April, the Mets are at least the best team in New York, if not all of baseball.

Mets, Cubs, Jays, pos-sibly the Astros … this year’s playoffs are going to be great fun!

• A groaner from Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Turns out that MMA fighter Kinberly Novaes was 12 weeks pregnant when she was dishing out the pun-ishment and winning a title fight. In other words, she was beating for two.”

• Blogger Bill Littlejohn: “Waze Navigation has

signed Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski to be the voice of a GPS app: Customers report, however, that they al-ways seem to end up at a bar or a hospital.”

• Sean Zak on golf.com, reminiscing about David Feherty’s best one-liners during TV golf coverage: “On an errant shot: ‘That ball is so far left Lassie couldn’t find it even if it was wrapped in ba-con.’; On Jim Furyk’s swing: ‘It looks like a one-armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.’ ”

• Hamilton Tiger-Cats guard Peter Dyakows-ki, to the Toronto Star, after chippy play in his team’s CFL game against the Argonauts resulted in nine unnec-essary-roughness flags: “You know, sometimes roughness is neces-sary.”

oTENTiks attract visitors to Riding Mountain

For families wanting to spend time outdoors without the added expense or work associated with bringing their own gear, the oTENTiks have been the answer. Riding Mountain National Park brought in 10 of the cabin-tent hybrid units in 2011 and an additional 20 this past season to great success.

“I was a little worried that we’d have too many and wouldn’t be able to fill them but that wasn’t the case,” said Visitor Experience Manager Richard Dupuis.

Each oTENTik consists of a solid wood frame and a tarp-like roof, giving it the appearance of a cross between an A-frame cabin and a tent. Each private unit has sleeping accommodations for six people, tables and chairs, fire pit,

picnic table, front deck, propane BBQ and accessories. A number of the units also have a wood stove.

“We’ve had a lot of positive com-ments about the oTENTiks,” said Du-puis. “People don’t want to sleep on the ground and they want to be dry and these units give them that opportunity.” In ad-dition, the oTENTiks making camping an affordable option for families who don’t want to invest in a large camper and the vehicle needed to pull it.

The 30 units located in the Clear Lake area of the park were 100 per cent booked each weekend and 70 per cent booked during the week throughout the summer season.

In addition to the oTENTiks at the campground, further upgrades to the campground in the park went over well with visitors this past season. Dupuis reported that eight washroom buildings

were renovated. A total of 200 camp sites were improved in terms of drainage and size, enhancing the camping experi-ence. Paving improvements throughout the village was another positive project this season.

Final numbers are still not available for this season but Dupuis estimates the total number of visitors to be five per cent higher than it was last year.

“This is the busiest season we’ve had in the campground and it is primarily due to the oTENTiks,” said Dupuis.

Programing in the park also attracted visitors including the Brett Kissel con-cert held August 22 which attracted 2500-3000 people to the main beach area.

As the current season draws to a close, plans are already underway for im-provements for next year. Preliminary planning work has begun to electrify

an additional 130 campsites and the 30 oTENTik structures. Dupuis hopes to begin construction this fall and continue throughout next year with the project being completed in 2017.

“We’ve found that in a setting such as that found at Clear Lake, people want to have one foot in the urban area and one foot in nature,” he said. “Having 50 per cent of our sites un-serviced is not matching today’s market. They have come to expect serviced sites and we want to accommodate that.”

Businesses throughout the village were pleased with the season’s sales and visitors this year according to Dupuis. While favourable weather added to the number of visitors to the park, program-ing and improvements in infrastructure added to the attraction.

“We are continually improving to meet the needs of visitors,” said Dupuis.

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The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) released its latest business barometer index recently, which shows small business optimism in Manitoba rose slightly to an index of 54.0 in September from an index of 53.8 in August. This index level is far below Manitoba’s fi ve year average of 63.8 and below the national average

index of 56.0. “Manitoba small business

optimism continues to hover near its fi ve year low,” noted Elliot Sims, CFIB’s director of provincial affairs for Manitoba in a release. “It’s interesting to note the stark contrast between Manitoba and our Saskatchewan neighbours. Clearly, Saskatchewan small business owners’ resilient

outlook is helping them weather the current economic challenges, despite their larger reliance on oil production. We urge the Manitoba government to emulate the policies of Saskatchewan in order to improve the small business climate in Manitoba.”

Nationally, September saw yet another drop in small business confi dence — the

fourth monthly decline in succession. The business barometer Index fell less than a point this month, but its new reading of 56.0 is a new cyclical low and a level not seen since April 2009. The index is now roughly 10 points below what was recorded in the fall of 2014.

Across the country, optimism fell in six of 10 provinces, but

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KDL Furniture’s “LUCKY 13TH” ANNIVERSARY SALE! Septem-ber 25-October 12. BEST SAV-INGS OF THE YEAR from 10 to 60% off all store products. Enter our $1000 draw. No purchase re-quired. A few HOT SPECIALS: $699 Beautyrest Queen 3” Pillow-top set; $459 5 piece 48” table set; $895 sofa and loveseat; $449 5 piece Youth bedroom suite (2 col-ors). Come in and see our friendly and experienced staff. You won’t be disappointed. Sale Hours: Mon-Fri 10-8, Sat 10-6 & Sun 12-5. Call KDL Furniture at 204-571-1971. 660 Highland Ave., South side of #1 Hwy., Brandon.

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LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICES

UNDER THE HIGHWAYS PROTECTION ACT

THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC BOARD

Notice is hereby given that a hearing of the Highway Traffic

Board will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2015

at 9:30 a.m. in Room 150, Brandon Provincial Building, 340 – 9th Street, Brandon,

Manitoba.

PERMITS – PART I – SECTION 9 H.P.A. AND

PART III – SECTION 17 H.P.A.

3/010/081/S/15 – OFF THE WALL SIGNS INC.

Application for Off-Premises Sign (Commercial) adjacent to

P.T.H. No.10, S.W. 1/4 35-8-19W, Municipality of

Oakland-Wawanesa.

The Highway Traffic Board will be prepared to consider all

submissions, written or oral, on the above applications by

contacting the Secretary prior to or at the hearing.

200 – 301 Weston Street Winnipeg, MB R3E 3H4 Phone: (204) 945-8912

Michelle Slotin, A/Secretary THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

BOARD

NOTICE OF HEARING

HOUSES FOR SALE

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Call for NominationsWestman Media Cooperative Ltd. (WMCL) officially announces the Call for Nomination of candidates for election to the Board of Directors. Nominations are now open. All WMCL members, 18 years of age or older are eligible, as outlined in the WMCL Charter Bylaws. Each nominee must be supported by at least two other WMCL members.

Completed nomination applications MUST BE RECEIVED at: Westman Communications Group, 1906 Park Ave, Brandon MB, R7B 0R9 by 5 p.m., Friday, October 17, 2014.

For a nomination application or more information, call 204-717-2010 or 1-800-665-3337, ext. 2010, Email: [email protected] or write to the above address.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

WANTED TO BUY

ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES-OLD AND UNUSUAL ITEMS WANT-ED-furniture, railroad items, Royal Albert China. Sherman Jewelry, old tools, military items, coke items, oil items, pocket watches, li-cense plates, metal toys, various collectibles and estate items. Phone: 204-728-0972

Brandon donors urged to give bloodCanadian Blood Services is asking

new and current blood donors to help return the national inventory to an op-timal level. Canada’s blood supply has declined throughout the summer and it’s time to top it up. Each week, a minimum of 16,000 units of blood need to be col-lected for use in a range of life-saving procedures, such as surgeries and cancer treatments.

“When people make an appointment, they’re making an appointment to save a life,” said Tracy Smith, director of do-nor relations for Manitoba, Northeastern Ontario and Nunavut, in a release. “It can take many donations to help a pa-tient.”

For example, it can take up to eight donors a week to help someone with

leukemia, Smith says. “The feeling you get from donating blood and helping to save a life is worth every minute. We invite Brandon residents to make an ap-pointment to donate blood today.”

The Brandon Blood Centre at The Town Centre (800 Rosser Ave.) will be open on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. and on Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

To book an appointment to give blood, use the give blood app or visit blood.ca. Those with appointments are encour-aged to keep their appointment and, if possible, bring a friend or family mem-ber to donate with them. Walk-ins are also welcome.

With files from release

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Roll

Number Description Assessed

Value Amount of Arrears &

Costs for Which Property May be Offered for Sale

703 LOTS 9 AND 10 BLOCK 2 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SE 1/4 23-10-19 WPM - 208 LOUISE AVE

L -$62,300 B -$178,200

$9,107.32

1487 LOT 8 SP PLAN 46868 BLTO IN SE 1/4 23-10-19 WPM. - 442 4TH ST

L -$45,200 B -$133,000

$9,591.58

14464 LOT 12 BLOCK 34 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SE 1/4 23-10-19 WPM - 305 2ND ST

L -$46,500 B -$119,500

$7,631.76

15602 LOT 29 AND S 1/2 OF LOT 28 BLOCK 36 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SE 1/4 23-10-19 WPM - 229 3RD ST

L -$41,900 B -$63,800

$5,901.75

22053 LOT 7 AND S 1/2 OF LOT 8 BLOCK 53 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SW 1/4 23-10-19 WPM - 144 16TH ST

L -$41,900 B -$104,800

$13,188.57

27664 LOTS 17 TO 20 BLOCK 65 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SE 1/4 23-10-19 WP. - 402 ROSSER AVE

L -$70,000 B -$121,500

$21,415.01

30924 AN UNDIVIDED 1/2 INTEREST IN THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND: LOTS 24, 25 AND 26 AND SLY 3 FEET OF LOT 23 BLOCK 74 PLAN 2 BLTO EXC OUT OF ALL SAID LOTS WLY 71.42 FEET IN E 1/2 23-10-19 WPM AN UNDIVIDED 1/2 INTEREST IN THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND: LOTS 24, 25, 26 AND SLY 3 FEET OF LOT 23 BLOCK 74 PLAN 2 BLTO EXC OUT OF ALL SAID LOTS, WLY 71.42 FEET IN E 1/2 23-10-19 WPM - 631 ROSSER AVE

L -$53,000 B -$422,400

$43,951.77

116566 LOT 11 AND SLY 7 FEET OF LOT 12 BLOCK 20 PLAN 15 BLTO IN SE 1/4 22-10-19 WPM - 141 24TH ST

L -$43,700 B -$170,400

$12,563.71

116848 LOTS 1 AND 2 BLOCK 21 PLAN 15 BLTO IN SE 1/4 22-10-19 WPM - 2203 PRINCESS AVE

L -$53,800 B -$110,900

$6,735.96

125237 LOTS 30 AND 31 BLOCK 49 PLAN 15 BLTO IN SE 1/4 22-10-19 WPM - 443 26TH ST

L -$51,000 B -$117,400

$9,749.93

148924 LOTS 39 AND 40 BLOCK 34 PLAN 16 BLTO IN NW 1/4 14-10-19 WPM. - 802 11TH ST

L -$46,500 B -$101,500

$4,367.05

175745 LOTS 16, 17 AND THE N 1/2 OF LOT 18 BLOCK 20 PLAN 720 BLTO IN NE 1/4 OF SECTION 15-10-19 WPM - 753 22ND ST

L -$59,400 B -$142,300

$11,529.73

331793 LOTS 1 AND 2 BLOCK 29 PLAN 332 BLTO IN SE 1/4 24-10-19 WPM - 1102 ROSSER AVE E

L -$33,600 B -$165,400

$11,457.41

389452 LOT 12 AND NLY 17 FEET LOT 13 BLOCK 19 PLAN 1092 BLTO IN SE 1/4 15-10-19 WPM - 1337 26TH ST

L -$59,200 B -$210,500

$15,321.67

417022 LOT 14 PLAN 1489 BLTO IN NE 1/4 13-10-19 WPM - 910 VAN HORNE AVE E

L -$44,600 B -$182,600

$27,012.65

441725 LOT 14 BLOCK 2 PLAN 1658 BLTO IN SE 1/4 24-10-19 WPM - 1 EMPRESS BAY

L -$47,500 B -$98,000

$6,453.70

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SALE OF LANDS FOR ARREARS OF TAXES CITY OF BRANDON - TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Pursuant to subsection 367(7) of The Municipal Act, notice is hereby given that unless the tax arrears for the designated year and costs in respect of the hereinafter described properties are paid in full to the City prior to the commencement of the auction, the City will on the 22nd day of October, 2015, at the hour of 9:30 AM, at the office of the City of Brandon - Treasury Department, 410 - 9th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, proceed to sell by public auction the following described properties:

514307 LOT 1 PLAN 22561 BLTO EXC ALL MINES AND

MINERALS AS SET FORTH IN TRANSFER 83-7724 IN NW 1/4 23-10-19 WPM - 1421 PACIFIC AVE

L -$154,000 B -$145,900

$34,655.12

911636 UNIT 17 CONDOMINIUM PLAN 13 BLTO TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED 1.3889 PERCENT INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS AS APPURTENANT THERETO. SUBJECT TO ALL ENTRIES SET OUT ON THE TITLE TO BRANDON CONDOMINIUM CORPORATION NO. 13. - 119 NEEPAWA DR

L -$29,300 B -$129,000

$7,005.31

The tax sale is subject to the following terms and conditions with respect to each property:

� The City may exercise its right to set a reserve bid in the amount of the arrears and costs.

� The City makes no representations or warranties whatsoever concerning the properties being sold.

� The successful purchaser must pay, at the time of the sale, the lesser of a $500.00 non-refundable deposit or the amount of the purchase price.

i) If the purchase price is less than $10,000.00 the remainder of the payment is due by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the tax sale.

ii) If the purchase price is greater than $10,000.00 an additional $9,500.00 non-refundable deposit is due by 4:00 p.m. the day of the tax sale, and the balance of the purchase price must be paid before November 12, 2015, which is 20 days after the tax sale.

� All payments are required to be made in cash, certified cheque, interac debit card, or bank draft to the City of Brandon.

� The risk for the property lies with the purchaser immediately following the auction.

� The purchaser is responsible for obtaining vacant possession.

� If the property is non-residential property, the purchaser must pay GST to the City or, if a GST registrant, provide a GST Declaration.

� The purchaser will be responsible for registering the transfer of title in the land titles office, including the registration fees.

Dated this 18th day of September, 2015. Managed by:

Dean Hammond City Treasurer City of Brandon - Treasury Department

Phone: (204) 729-2228 Fax: (204) 726-8546

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LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICES

Liberal candidates listening to constituents

Both the provincial and federal Liberal candidates were on hand in Brandon last week to listen to what constituents had to say.

Federal Liberal candidate for Brandon-Souris, Jodi Wyman, was joined at her campaign office in the city last week by Manitoba Liberal leader Rana Bokhari for a town hall meeting.

Approximately 35 people were in attendance to be part of the discussion which centred around the Liberal party’s plan for in-frastructure investment and how the federal and provincial gov-ernments should be working to-

gether.“The federal government and

the provinces have been working bilaterally and the federal Liberal platform includes a commitment to meet with the provinces on a regular basis,” she said.

In her opinion, the current system creates a number of bar-riers, which she says, need to be removed.

“We need to let municipali-ties decide where to spend grant money and not let things get bogged down in red tape.”

According to Wyman, the way things stand today, federal funds are only given to municipalities if strict criteria is met. The cur-rent federal government doles

out grant money in specific areas that may not meet the needs of the local governments, she says. Wyman says she would like to see municipalities have more control as to how and where the funds are spent.

In addition, the traditional divi-sion of responsibility, including each of the municipal, provincial and federal governments paying one third the cost of a specific project, isn’t always feasible, says Wyman.

“We have to be aware that sometimes the RMs can’t pay their share. It could be that the federal government needs to pay more than one third,” she said, citing projects such as safe drink-

ing water and waste water man-agement as examples of critical infrastructure that needs to be provided but that municipalities may not be able to afford.

She says infrastructure throughout the province was also a key part of the discussion.

“I’ve had a number of meet-ings with mayors and reeves that have helped me realise the infra-structure crisis we are in,” said Wyman.

She spoke of the need for long term water management and the fact that the local area is still recovering from flooding. She would like to see a strategic plan in place to deal with flooding and climate change.

Other topics throughout the evening included the Liberal government’s commitment to veteran affairs. The party will re-store a veteran’s option to choose a lifetime pension, increase fund-ing for families of disabled vet-erans and increase funding for education and training following service as well as create two ad-ditional treatment facilities for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Education for First Nations people was another topic of in-terest and Wyman confirmed the Liberal’s commitment to increase federal funding for first nations people on reserve.

The federal election is sched-uled for Oct. 19.

The risks of CO poisoning


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ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 789

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PUZZLE NO. 525


That bad headache, dizziness, vomiting and nausea may not be the fl u. It could be the fi rst stages of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

With the heating season in full swing, the risk of CO poisoning in your home may rise. CO is a colourless, odourless gas that is produced when wood and fossil fuels burn without enough oxygen. CO can build up due to a faulty appliance, a clogged chimney, inadequate venting, or the buildup of engine exhaust in

a garage. It can also happen when fi replaces, wood stoves, kitchen and bathroom fans, clothes dryers, central vacuum systems and heating equipment all compete for air in your home.

Know the warning signs: persistent stuffy, stale or smelly air, water condensation on windows, the smell of exhaust fumes, a back draft from the fi replace, or a pilot light that keeps going out. If you suspect CO poisoning, open all doors and windows and

evacuate everyone from the house immediately. If you are experiencing health problems from suspected CO poisoning, seek medical attention—let the physician know what you suspect. Then call Manitoba Hydro at 1-888-624-9376 for an emergency inspection.

Houses today are more airtight and energy effi cient, which is good. However, when houses were leaky and expensive to heat, they vented more easily through cracks and openings. Homeowners

must now incorporate other measures to ensure houses are properly vented, thereby reducing the presence of CO.

Keep CO out of your home by having your heating system inspected and maintained regularly by a licensed heating contractor. Ensure that external vents are secure and free of snow, insulation, leaves, lint and debris. If you have a fi replace, make sure it has a fresh air intake duct.

Most of all, to help protect your family, make sure

you have a working carbon monoxide detector installed near bedrooms and on all levels of your home. If the alarm goes off, treat the alarm as an emergency and call Manitoba Hydro immediately. Never unplug it or remove its batteries because the alarm annoys you. You could put lives at risk, including your own.

For more information visit hydro.mb.ca.

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