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Vol. 14 No. 43 | Thursday, January 28, 2016

Local artist Weiming Zhao has averaged a painting a day, creating a collection of more than 4,000 pieces of artwork. This piece is of Murray House, located on Victoria Avenue in Brandon.

Brandon landmarks captured on canvas

The following are wise words of advice from accom-plished artist Weiming Zhao whose current exhibition, Brandon Landmarks, is on display at 12th Street Studio.

“Inspiration is all around you, you just have to pay at-tention.

“Nobody would give a second look to some of the things I paint,” he added. “But there is plenty to inspire you. There is no lack of subject matter.”

With canvas, easel, paints and brushes in tow, Zhao can be spotted in and around the area painting en plein air. Over the past 12 years, he’s averaged one painting each day, creating a collection of 4,000 pieces, each of which was created on sight. Not an easy feat for a man who works two full-time jobs in a country where the sun is often going down and the light fading by the time he gets home from work.

“When I step out the door each day, I paint whatever catches my eye,” he said. “Often it’s a spur of the moment decision.”

Fate may also play a part in the subjects that find new life through his brush strokes.

“The thing I really want to paint might not be what ends up on my canvas and what I paint may be something I never intended to paint,” he said.

Being unable to find a parking spot and driving by a unique landmark in a neighbouring community have led to subjects lost and found along the way, he says.

Zhao had an interest in painting and drawing grow-ing up in China but stepped away from art at the age of 18. Living in the late 1970s in China, something from within prompted him to teach himself English, a decision that would eventually bring him to Brandon University as an international student in 1991. The artist picked up his brushes again in 2003 and has been creating original pieces since.

Due to the nature of his on-site paintings, Zhao prefers to work with oils, a medium he finds most versatile un-der whatever nature throws at him throughout the year. He generally spends less than two hours completing each open air painting. His current exhibition, “Brandon Land-marks”, includes nearly 40 pieces of work on display and for sale at the 12th Street Studio.

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A look at Zhao’s piece which showcases the Brandon University library. His artwork is available for viewing at the 12th Street Studio.

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“The pieces are very recognizable,” said gallery owner and operator Amy Beuhler. “People who have been through the exhibition

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say, ‘I know that place. I’ve been there.’”

Located in a beautifully restored Victorian home, the gallery is part of a bed and breakfast business Beuhler and her husband opened a year and a half ago. The unique blend of architecture and atmo-sphere lend well to the gal-lery space which features numerous artists from

Brandon and the Westman region throughout the year.

An artist herself, Beuhler was looking for an oppor-tunity to display her own pieces and highlight fellow artists in a unique setting.

“The home itself fea-tures original woodwork, stained glass and a collec-tion of antiques. It’s nicely furnished and seeing art displayed in a home setting

is a great opportunity.” The 12th Street Studio is

open Mondays from 7 – 9 p.m., Wednesdays from 1 – 4 p.m., Saturdays from 1 – 5 p.m. or by appointment by calling 204-726-5170. Weiming Zhao’s exhibi-tion will be on display until the end of February.

Zhao’s work can also be viewed online at weiming-pleinair.blogspot.ca.

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Richard Bruce is the executive director of West-man Immigrant Services.

Another Winter Festival is just around the corner, how excited are you?

This is a great community event. When it first started, it was not as big as it is now clearly. A lot of the pavilions were held in community centres which were quite small and they’ve since grown to larger venues with lots of peo-ple. It’s a very successful formula in terms of showcas-ing culture, showcasing food, showcasing entertainment. People have lined up when it’s 40-below outside to get into the pavilions and that speaks volumes about the qual-ity of the event and sort of the tenacity that we face winter with – we win, winter loses. This is one of those events that makes it all possible.

The decision behind parting ways with your title sponsor, Lt. Gov. Janice Filmon, and the event no lon-ger being called the Lieutenant Governor’s Winter Festival…

Part of the process of being a new Lieutenant Governor is that you go through all the things that people, before you, have sponsored and you make decisions on whether you’re going to do that or not going to do that. This is just a natural outgrowth of the festival. It’s not that the Lieu-tenant Governor won’t be involved, it’s just that they’re not the patron. So, we’re kind of moving away from the city (of Brandon) being involved and becoming an inde-pendent organization, which means the community is not restricted from doing other things regarding the festival.

There are eight pavilions this year. Are you happy with that number?

I’m sure the community would be happier if it was larger, but these are well supported across the board. It doesn’t matter which pavilion you actually pick because it’s a good festival. Could it be a little bit bigger? For sure. But I think the size and feel is still good which gives peo-ple the opportunity to come and go and see other things.

How many volunteers are needed to make an event like this work and just how important are these folks?

They’re absolutely critical. Without the volunteers, this doesn’t happen. We can’t pay people to do the sorts of things that they do to make this work. The volunteers

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Journal Q & A with Richard BruceRichard Bruce is the committee chair for the annual Winter Festival, which takes place Jan. 28-30 in the Wheat City. Bruce, formerly the police chief in Brandon and now the executive director of Westman Immigrant Services, sat down with Journal editor Lanny Stewart to discuss the upcoming festival that’s become so very popular in the community.

probably have been working for three or four weeks in preparation for something like this. I know that I have friends that were involved when it first started and one of them had a group of chefs who figured they had what they needed for the weekend. Well, it was all gone by the Thursday night, so that meant that they had to spend Friday and Saturday buying more food and cooking more. Some of the stuff that the volunteers do, I mean, I can’t imagine peeling so many potatoes to make it all work and that sort of stuff. The pavilions are successful on two counts: on the backs of the volunteers and the people who come through the door. If you don’t have any volunteers to do all the work, no one is going to come through the door.

Do you have an approximate number in terms of how many volunteers are needed for this event?

You ask anyone at the pavilions and I’m guessing they’re probably going to tell you they have hundreds, so add it all up and it’s a lot.

Being that you’re also directly involved with West-man Immigrant Services, do you notice the excitement in a lot of the newcomers’ eyes regarding an event like this?

Yes, some of our clients are directly involved in some of the pavilions, so it’s an opportunity for them to gather and spend time in their home country with friends, family and the community around them. This is a hallmark event for the city. I think you could argue that it’s a hallmark event for the province because there are a lot of people from out of town who book hotel rooms so that they can come and spend three days here.

Do you notice the look on some of the newcomers’ faces regarding the Winter Festival, knowing that they get to spend time in a home setting with friends and family?

You get to see that when you go to the pavilions. When you come to the building here, people are coming and going, maybe not so much. By comparison, if you’re a person who really likes Christmas and Christmas is com-ing, you’re more excited when you’re with the people you

want to be with on Christmas but you still have that good feeling. This is kind of the same.

Because you work closely with immigrants, does the Winter Festival have special meaning to you?

It’s not just because I work here (WIS). I worked with the Winter Festival before I worked here actually, but this is an opportunity for us to actually see first-hand how lucky we are to have different constituents in our com-munity that make us up. Now at the beginning, there was lots of people that had been here for a long period of time, but it’s grown to include a lot of newcomers.

The Winter Festival attracted more than 30,000 people last year. Do you anticipate similar numbers this time around?

I would think the number should be around the same. It might be impacted a little bit because the Global Village isn’t there and the Honduran (pavilion) but if the weather stays like this, people will really move around to sev-eral different pavilions. I mean people really don’t care, they’ll deal with 40-below temperatures, but I don’t think the numbers will change drastically.


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In a city that struggles at times to maintain an adequate supply of water, does it make sense to keep a scheme that does little to encourage water conservation, and indirectly encourages waste of a critical resource?

Finally, Brandon has already eliminated its business tax, and the proportion of property

Are you prepared to pay more for your water so that local business owners can pay less for theirs? That is the question Brandonites should be asking themselves as the prospect of dramatically higher water rates comes closer to being a reality.

As reported on these pages two months ago, an average Brandon family will see their water bill increase by more than 44 per cent over the next five years if a proposal submitted to the Public Utilities Board by city administration is approved. The rate hike will be even greater for those who use large volumes of water. Brandon currently offers a tiered rate structure that gives discounts to high-volume consumers, but those discounts would disappear under the new rate plan.

City administration argues the increases are needed because “the city has made significant capital investment in its two sewage treatment plants” and “under new public-sector accounting board standards for utility providers, the city must now incorporate the amortization expense for capital assets into its utility rate calculations.” That is true, but the problem is compounded by the fact that the last rate application was in 2007 and rates have been

frozen since 2010. At a public consultation

in Brandon last week, the failure to impose gradual rate increases was referenced by PUB executive director Darren Christie, who told the audience that “Unfortunately since Brandon — for whatever reason — hasn’t come before the Public Utilities Board for a rate increase for a number of years, what people are experiencing now is called ‘rate shock’.”

The increase will indeed be a shock, but it could be worse for Brandon families if local business owners get their way. At last week’s PUB consultation, representatives from the hotel and hospitality industry, apartment landlords, Shoppers Mall Brandon, the Keystone Centre and Maple Leaf Foods all spoke against the rate increases.

Brandon Chamber of Commerce president Jordan Ludwig conde-mned the proposed increase as “just blatantly unreasonable.” He argued that “when you really crunch the numbers, it is literally impossible to pass those costs on to your customers. That comes right out of your bottom line and that’s not fair to the business people in Brandon, Manitoba.”

Fairness is often a matter of perspective. Some

taxes paid by local businesses to the city is shrinking. That has shifted a greater (and growing) share of the financial burden onto the shoulders of ordinary Brandonites. Is it reasonable for businesses to demand that the burden grow even larger?

These are not small questions. They have direct implications for your water bill, your bank account and the local economy. They call for a comprehensive public discussion that starts with the realization that every time businesses call for

a reduced tax or utility burden, they are implicitly demanding that a higher burden be imposed on those who don’t own businesses. If they pay less, you pay more.

In the past, the burden has been shifted without much public discussion, without Brandonites realizing how it would impact their finances. That needs to change, starting with the public understanding of who really pays when businesses get breaks from politicians?

Will it make a difference in the case of the proposed

water rate increase? It might. Businesses will be pressuring our city council members to amend the rate increase proposal, asking that the increase be smaller, and imposed more gradually. Some will demand that discounts for high-volume users be kept in place, and might even threaten job losses if they aren’t.

They will be protecting the interests of their businesses. Who will be protecting yours?

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One such writer is Eric Koreen, a well-known na-tional sports writer who covered basketball for the National Post since 2008. He’s had a heavy following of supporters who have appreciated his work and with more than 20,000 followers on Twit-ter, Koreen covered all the angles when it came to pro basketball and I, for one,

was a fan. He’s now out of a job. That’s because earlier

this month, a major news-paper chain in Canada cut 90 jobs and have merged newsrooms in several ma-jor cities. Several gifted journalists who worked for major publications in Canada were part of a ma-jor cost-cutting move by Postmedia whose finances have been sagging for a while now.

I felt sick to my stomach after the news broke be-cause I know what it feels like to be a journalist who gets the pink slip.

It happened several years ago. I felt numb.

Losing your job sucks and for those that haven’t gone through it, you really don’t know the feeling until it happens to you.

With the current state of the Canadian economy, it’s not just the media in-dustry that’s struggling. There’s been job losses in several other industries across the nation, but the move by Postmedia really struck a nerve.

In 2014, Postmedia purchased the entire Sun chain of newspapers from Quebecor. However Chris Waddell, a Carleton Uni-versity journalism pro-fessor told Pete Evans of CBC News online, that Postmedia paid for the Sun Media purchase with debt loaned by U.S. back-ers.

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So if that was indeed the case, why did Post-media go through with the purchase of Sun Media to begin with? Yes, the pur-chase made for much less competition in larger mar-kets which means several changes could – and have already been made by the job cuts – to help offset the debt losses, however Postmedia made the criti-cal mistake of trying to fix the fences of the entire block instead of trying to fix their own.

The Postmedia fence was broken before. Now it’s really broken.

Koreen wasn’t the only well-known journalist who lost his job on Jan. 19. There were several journalists letting the ‘cat out of the bag’ on social

media, letting the world know that they were out of work – the sports depart-ments taking a large hit that day.

“Count me as one of the ones affected by the cuts,” said former National Post sports writer David Alter on Twitter soon after the news broke. “It was a fun four months and I learned a lot.”

“Super sad to say that as of today, I’m no lon-ger with the Edmonton Journal,” wrote Stephanie Coombs, former manag-ing editor of the publica-tion. “It’s been a privilege to work there and tell Ed-monton’s stories.”

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Sad indeed.

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A British man wants popcorn banned from movie theatres and it’s got nothing to do with health. The gentleman (using that term loosely) says pop-corn creates ‘noise pollu-tion’. He can’t believe the amount of noise made by people chewing the treat. Perhaps people could chew with their mouths closed. No word on if the next lawsuit will be to ban pop from movie theatres. Haven’t we all heard a person slurping his or her drink and just wanted to take the straw and do with it what can’t be mentioned in this paper?

Some points to ponder around the espresso ma-chine at work…

There is a tried and not necessarily true method that some criminals use to try and get their sentences reduced when appearing before a judge.

When asked if there is anything they would like

to say, some criminals re-spond by telling the court they’re sorry for their crime – sometimes they even sound sincere – and that while incarcerated, they’ve seen the foibles of their ways and have found God. Having spent a few hours or more in courtrooms, this usually doesn’t work and they get the book thrown at them (not the one they were hoping for).

So when a cleric gets caught after committing a crime and they’re up for sentencing, who do they find?

Would they use that line comedian Flip Wilson use to say, “the devil made me do it?”

Item No. 2 to discuss…When you ask a friend

to help you with a proj-ect and they say they’d be happy to but don’t show up when needed. Then,

days later, ask you for help the next weekend, do you say:

A - Sure no problem, I’ll be there and do show up;

B - Sure I’ll be there, then don’t show up;

C - No way, remember when I asked you to help me and you didn’t show up?

D - Say I’m going to Ve-gas for the weekend know-ing that the only gambling you’ll be doing is hoping the friend doesn’t find out you’re lying.

Item No. 3 to discuss…The provincial cam-

paign is underway. You find yourself answering the door only to find a candidate standing there ready to discuss what they and their party will do to make your life better. You decide:

A - My life does’t need a politician making it better, so you say the Metamucil just kicked in and close the door;

B - You politely listen and then ask what they’ll

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C - You can’t vote be-cause of a criminal record you received for assault-ing a politician at your doorstep during the last election;

D - You say you and several neighbours are re-lated by marriage to one of the other candidates but don’t say which one.

Item No. 4 to discuss…If a former girl/boy

friend called you and said they had to talk to you

about an urgent matter, would you think:

A - Oh good, they’re returning my favourite DVD;

B - Oh wow, they’re finally going to pay me back the money they owe me;

C - The medical test results came back and… (here’s where you can use your imagination);

D - They realize their mistake and you were the best thing in their life.

If frozen grapes are used to make ice wine, why

aren’t frozen potatoes cut up to make chips?

It would eliminate sev-eral steps in the manufac-turing process and save money, either making it cheaper for consumers to buy or increasing compa-ny profits if savings aren’t passed on to consumers.

Thought for the week: Why is it that some of your best work-related ideas come to you when you’re at home?

A computer generated video still animation of Yam Lau’s “Nishu: Echo Cham-bers.”

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Three new exhibitions open up at AGSMThree new exhibitions have opened for

the winter season at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.

In the Main Gallery, William Eakin’s se-ries of photographs “Time” and Yam Lau’s video installation “Nüshu: Echo Cham-bers” reflect on how everyday practices and objects can carry complex histories, philosophies, and traditions. Meanwhile in the Community Gallery, local women’s art collective Drawn Together presents a series of works in a variety of media, inspired by the children’s song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. The exhibi-tions will continue until March 26 in the Main Gallery, and Feb. 13 in the Commu-nity Gallery.

In the Main Gallery, Chinese-Canadian new media artist Yam Lau’s video piece “Nüshu: Echo Chambers” is a medita-tion on the importance of preservation of languages and traditional practices. Since 2007 Lau traveled to China to research the rare Nüshu language, used exclusively by women in Jiangyong County in Hu-nan province of southern China. The ori-gins of the Nüshu remains a mystery, but it is known that the language emerged as a result of women’s limited access to litera-cy and education, and was a way to pass on knowledge and to share experiences across generations. Having recorded songs by its

elder and youngest practitioners, Lau cre-ated two simultaneous video animations of an architectural space that echoes the song and the script of the language. Alongside the videos, Lau will also present objects that have traditionally been made to pass down the Nüshu language. Also exploring the ways in which everyday objects and ar-tifacts can be seen as vessels for complex philosophical ideas, one of Manitoba’s best known photographers William Eakin will present a series of large-scale photo-graphs of vintage watch faces in “Time”. Stripped of their functionality, the watch faces become symbolic of the passage of time. Eakin stills time by removing from the watch faces the core components that allow us to measure, perceive and evaluate it. Through this series, he asks how the so-cial and philosophical contexts of the time are imprinted onto the watch faces, refer-encing such diverse ideas as the Cold War, mapping, political conflicts, geography, and the cosmos. Both of these exhibitions are made possible by Samson Engineer-ing, SKIN Clinics, and Burns Maendel Consulting Engineers.

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Anne Fallis Elliott, Basma Kavanagh, Lisa Lysack, Mary Lowe, Gerry Oliver, Cheryl Orr-Hood, Rosemarie Péloquin, Janet Shaw-Russell, and Chris Reid. Us-ing vastly different media and coming to-gether from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, members of the group support and encourage each other’s art practices through studio visits, exhibi-tions, and knowledge sharing. This is the first exhibition organized by the collec-tive, taking the children’s song “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” as a starting point.

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Why am I so tired?The hustle and bustle of the

Christmas season has come and gone and the dull dark days of January have settled in. This is also a month where people are looking for a way to have more energy, be healthier and get back on track. So often the excuse standing in the way of meet-ing goals, participating in activities and completing our day-to-day activities is that overwhelming feeling of ex-haustion. While we can all feel tired at the end of a long day, what about those people who never shake the feel-ing of being exhausted from the moment they rise in the morning until they crash at night? So many of us chalk that feeling up to the way life is supposed to be, that we for-get to look for solutions that can make a noticeable differ-ence in how we feel and even what we are able to accom-plish in a day.

Below I’ve listed a few common but treatable issues that either affect our energy levels or our ability to sleep.

• Thyroid disorders – the thyroid gland, while most commonly thought of as the gland that affects our metabolism, actually in-fluences virtually every organ system in our bod-ies. The production of too much or too little thyroid hormone can lead to prob-lems with sleep, energy and even clarity of thought and memory. Weight gain or loss can result from an underactive or overactive thyroid gland. Hypothy-roidism is more commonly linked to feelings of being tired and is a very common disorder affecting more women than men, with the incidence in both genders increasing with age. A simple blood test can ex-amine the two types of thy-roid hormone in our bodies (T3 and T4) as well as the amount of thyroid stimu-lating hormone (TSH) being produced. Readily treatable with medication, bringing these hormones back into balance can

have a huge impact on a person’s energy level and overall health.

• Iron, B12 and other vi-tamin deficiencies can interfere with our energy levels by leaving us tired regardless of how much sleep we get. Iron, B12 and folic acid imbalances can interfere with our body’s ability to distribute oxygen to our tissues. This can leave us short of breath, weak and create an overall feeling of malaise in ad-dition to disrupting sleep by causing restless legs. Low magnesium levels as another example can add to restless sleep and cause leg cramps. If you suspect a deficiency make an ap-pointment to have some blood work done before starting any supplements.

• Pain that is not managed can be a common thief of sleep. For those who cannot get comfortable at night or wake multiple times because of arthritis pain, nerve pain, head-

aches etc the night does little to recharge one’s body for morning. Instead one should investigate treatment options which can include medication, strengthening exercises, acupuncture, physiother-apy and chiropractic care to name a few. Weight loss leads to less stress on the joints and increased muscle mass can help to support weaker areas of the body.

• Prescriptions for antide-pressants seem to increase as the hours of sunlight decreases and the mer-cury dips. One of the most common symptoms of depression can be a disruption in sleep habits whether it is sleeping too much or too little. Depres-sion can have many causes and triggers for people, but if you suspect that you may have more than the blues it is worth a trip to see your family physician. While many people worry they will be started on a

medication other options can include a referral to a counsellor, psychologist or psychiatrist. In a stress-ful world it can be equally helpful to have an objec-tive outlet to discuss stress and learn coping strategies. Positive emotions create energy and improve sleep.

• Different prescription medications can also make us feel tired. Common culprits are blood pressure medications, antidepres-sants, and pain relievers to name a few. If you suspect a medication may be mak-ing you tired consult with your pharmacist or physi-cian to see if changing to another one may be more appropriate or if a change in dosage or time of ad-ministration might help re-duce side effects. It is also possible that a medication may be inhibiting the ab-sorption of a necessary vitamin or mineral in your body or causing its deple-tion which in turn is re-ducing your energy level.

Perhaps your medication is causing you digestive dif-ficulties and leaving you lethargic. Your pharmacist can help you identify some of these possibilities.At the end of the day we

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Making sense of French letters and numbersI was recently challenged to find a wine that would

match a delicate dessert and continue to drink well into those lazy, mellow moments that follow every memo-rable meal. There were several contenders but I went for Demi-Sec Champagne. Controversial I know, but most houses produce Demi-Sec including Moet et Chandon, Taittinger, Veuve Clicquot, Lanson and Lau-rent-Perrier so it wasn’t so difficult to find.

As he popped open the Demi-Sec bubbles my host asked, “How do you tell how sweet or dry a cham-pagne is?” Good question. The answer is on the label. Read on to learn all the ins and outs of french letters and numbers so you’ll be in the know in time for your next big celebration.

Look out for the important names upfront: Brut Na-ture, Ultra Brut, Zero Dosage, Extra Brut, Brut, Sec, Demi-Sec or Doux. The ‘new kids on the block’, ‘Brut Nature’, ‘Ultra Brut’ or ‘Zero Dosage’ are gaining fans year after year – me included.

As you can guess, these wines have very little, or no sugar, between 0-2 grams per litre of champagne to be exact. The next style ‘Extra Brut’ which must be below six g/l. The name ‘Brut’ means ‘dry’ even though you can have up to 12 grams of sugar per litre in a cham-pagne that announces the single word ‘Brut’ on the la-bel. That said, it used to be 15 g/l. (although a tolerance of three g/l. is allowed) reflecting the trend to reduce champagne sugar levels across the board.

Louis Roederer, for example, have reduced the ‘dos-age’ of all their champagnes, including Top Johnny Cristal by about three g/l. over recent years.

Non-vintage champagne, which accounts for about 95 percent of all champagne sales usually clocks in between 8-12 g/l. and is therefore labelled ‘Brut’. The sweeter wines beyond ‘Extra Brut’ are ‘Sec’ (17-32 g/l.), Demi-Sec (32-50 g/l.) and finally Doux, the sweetest, weighing in at a teeth-rattling 50-plus grams per litre of sugar. Balance is key to all wines but it’s critical for sweeties, where bags of sugar need lots of acidity. Champagne’s hallmark crisp, mouthwatering acidity, borne of its chilly northerly vineyards, balanc-es these sweet styles beautifully.

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lation of origin must be clearly stated, showing that the grapes and the wine have come from the desig-nated champagne area whose vineyards comprise of the Montagne de Reims, Vallee de la Marne, the Cotes des Blancs and the lesser known Aube. Don’t forget, champagne can only come from the champagne region in north-east France.

The champagne label must also show the brand or house, the town in which the wine was made as well as the country of origin, France. You’ll spot the alcohol content which is normally between 11 and 13 per cent by volume in the bottom corner. The volume of wine in the bottle and the name of the winemaker must also be plain to see.

If you study the bottle even closer, you’ll spot a reg-istration number as every producer is given an official number by the C.I.V.C., (Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne), the powerful governing body of champagne.

The producer and their unique number are linked to a couple of very confusing but useful initials. They give a whole new meaning to ‘French Letters’. Check out the following capitals. NM (negociant-manipulant); for manipulant read ‘maker’ so it means ‘negociant-maker’. These are the big winemaking houses who buy (negociant) grapes in volume from independent grow-ers to make their wine.

RM (recoltant-manipulant) means a champagne maker (manipulant) that grows (recoltant) their own grapes to make their champagne. RC (recoltant-coop-erative) is similar to ‘RM’ but they make and sell their champagne with the help of a cooperative. CM (coop-erative-manipulant), as the name suggests, is a coop-erative of growers who make and sell their product to-gether. The Champagne Boys may try and confuse us, but with label know-how and your Sherlock Holmes hat on, you can get to the very soul of your sparkler.

So there you have it, heads up on a champagne label. It’s all a bit ‘anoraky’ so don’t let your mates catch you studying the bottle in a quiet corner as they’re pouring the next glass.

Going back to the dinner and my dessert match: the Demi-Sec went down really well, but I have a confes-sion to make. One bottle into the mellow period, we popped a bottle of Brut, followed by a wonderful Zero Dosage. All in the interest of research, you’ll under-stand although I don’t recall anybody discussing reg-istration numbers or for that matter, french letters after midnight.

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Evolution not revolution: We need to lose to be greatEverybody loves a good

underdog story. An un-likely hero overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to claim victory – it’s a formula that has been repeated over and over in literature and at the box of-fice. But, if those fictional renditions of success are any indication, the big win will not be appreciated if it comes too easily.

Missed opportunities don’t count. We can’t

assess the shots that we failed to take as a potential win that slipped through our grasp. If that were true, there are hundreds of towns like ours who are on the cusp of their trium-phant comeback. No, we need to declare a stake in the game and make some strategic plays toward that goal.

Community develop-ment is not a sprint. There isn’t one single achieve-

ment today that ensures everlasting prosperity for our citizens. No, instead it’s a game of endurance and longevity – one that will no doubt be peppered with ego-driven decisions, market speculation, reac-tive measures and without a doubt, some choices that won’t be warmly embraced by the public.

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ing his first wobbly steps on untested legs, we won’t reach our goal on the first try. Not only is that okay, but it’s also necessary. Why? What possible good can come from failure?

We don’t take time to constructively analyze our wins. We celebrate them, but we don’t learn from them. It’s not until we fall short of the mark that we do a full de-brief and fo-cus our 20/20 hindsight on each decision and outcome to explore how we can im-prove. That experience is far more valuable to the in-dividuals and organization over the long term.

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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 grapples with the challenges of eco-nomic growth and resil-ience in rural Manitoba, serving as the Economic Development Officer for the Minnedosa and Area Community Development Corporation. He aspires to engage his generation to take leadership of the steps our communities take next.

Student workshop designed to promotemedical practice in rural communities

The need for medical practitioners in rural areas remains a concern in West-man, and to help alleviate the issue, Prairie Moun-tain Health is once again preparing to host a student workshop which focuses on the promotion of prac-ticing medicine outside ur-ban centres.

A total of 48 first and second year medical stu-dents from the University of Manitoba will be com-ing to the Wheat City and Souris the weekend of Jan. 29-30 as part of a PMH event that’s taken place annually for several years.

Michelle McKay, director of medical services admin-istration for PMH, says the weekend workshop is a way for students who grew up in urban centres the chance to check out what Brandon and Souris – a town that was added to the workshop for the first time this year – has to offer.

“I would say at least half or maybe more of the stu-dents that come out to these events have never really been in Brandon,” McKay told the Journal. “Most of them are very surprised at the size and the amount of services offered at the Brandon Regional Health Centre and also surprised at the size of Brandon and

what’s offered.”After an evening social

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“We want to try and pro-mote the variety in a prac-tice that you’re not going to get in Winnipeg,” she added.

McKay says medical students looking for diver-sity in his or her practice

should consider work out-side of the city.

“You can be that fam-ily physician who just has an office-based practice or you can do other things,” McKay said. “If you are new in practice and you want to build up a variety of skills or maybe you just want to come out and do some work in more of a part-time or casual basis, there are positions avail-

able. “The biggest thing is we just want to get people out there, make them real-ize that there’s life outside the city and there’s lots of opportunity for you,” she continued.

The event is held in part-nership with Manitoba’s Office of Rural and North-ern Health.

The Board of Directors of Westoba Credit Union recently declared a dividend of four percent on outstanding Westoba Credit Union Ltd. preferred shares for 2015.

The board has agreed on a payout of over $300,000 to members holding preferred shares. These dividends will be paid to members before the end of January 2016.

“Westoba is delighted to announce this

declaration of a four per cent dividend to members with preferred shares,” said Jim Rediger, CEO of Westoba, in a release. “We had another successful year in 2015, and we are pleased to share this success with those who have supported us through the purchase of our preferred shares.”

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The following is a brief look at all eight pavilions...

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the Mauritius Cultural Association of Brandon, the pavilion will include entertainment such as the Island Vibes Dance Group, The Mauritian Roots Traditional Sega Group, Hand Drum, Triangle and Maravane. Sega Typique Vibe Band will take the stage Friday and Saturday night. Cuisine includes spicy chicken salmi with white rice and salad, fried noodle, Farata (fl at bread) with potato curry and much more.

Chinese Pavilion - Knox United Church

(451 - 18th Street)Hosted by the Brandon

Chinese Lion Dance Group, this year’s Chinese pavilion includes entertainment such as the Lion Dance, Yangge Dance, Open The Door with the Red Handkerchiefs Dance and consists of classic Chinese cuisine including pan-fried beef with vegetables, dumplings, spicy tofu, sautéed sweet corn with pine nuts and more. You can wash the great eats down with some Chinese tea.

Brazilian Pavilion - Ukrainian National Home (1133 Stickney Avenue)

Bem Vindo! The Brazilian pavilion will once again heat up Brandon with exciting shows such as fast-paced Samba and the captivating Brazilian martial art called Capoeira. Cuisine includes Feijao (beans/meat dish), rice, Kibe (meatball snack), lime cake and Brigadeiro (chocolate cake). Don’t forget to stop by the souvenir booth to take a piece of Brazil home with you.

Scottish Pavilion - Imperial Ballroom at the

Victoria Inn (3550 Victoria Avenue)Come on out and enjoy

some great Scottish entertainment from

opening to closing. Sit back and listen to the skirl of the pipes, enjoy some highland dancing and tap your toes to the lively tunes of the fi ddle. The Scotch Corner Bar will be sure to keep you refreshed with a great selection of Scottish beer and whisky. Bring your appetite to the “Haggis Hoose” which will be serving traditional Scottish food including haggis, neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes), meat pies, delicious shortbread and Scotland’s famous soft drink Irn Bru.

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Irish Pavilion Royal Oak Inn

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Irish pavilion and enjoy entertainment such as Seamus O’jibway featuring Larry Roulette, Shameless Folk, the Neelin Choir and Tom Foolery. Meanwhile, the McConnell School of Dance who will be dazzling everyone with their footwork and traditional full dress regalia. The cuisine includes traditional Irish stew, soda bread, barmbrack as well as the ever popular “The Drink.”

English Pavilion - Grand Salon at the Victoria Inn (3550 Victoria Avenue)The English Pavilion is

delighted to welcome some of our best and brightest who will be rockin’ their best brand of British Invasion. Entertainment includes the Maypole Dance, CP Express and Chris Ghidoni, which is a tribute to the women of British pop. This year’s menu includes our famous pies and pasties, bangers and mash, accompanied of course by a pint. Choose traditionally brewed Pale Ale or Strongbow Cider. The legendary ‘007 Martini Bar’ will be back in action - shaken, not stirred!

Ukrainian Pavilion - Ukrainian Reading Hall

(1005 Assiniboine Avenue)As in years past, the ever

popular Ukrainian Pavilion will once again include the Brandon Troyanda School of Ukrainian Dance and Teren Ukrainian Dancers from Oakburn. The group will offer dances in their colourful costumes, representing the different regions of the Ukraine. To start every show, the dancers will do the Pryvit, a welcome dance represented by all regions, where they present bread, salt and wheat signifying prosperity and health for their guests. Cuisine includes the popular perigees, cabbage rolls, kolbasa, dill pickle, sour cream, cooked onion and dessert.

Metis Pavilion Western Centennial

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The Métis Pavilion offers a variety of Métis culture through the sharing of traditional music, dance, food and laughter with festival patrons. There are knowledgeable and passionate exhibitors and entertainers as well as interactive exhibits for all ages to enjoy. Cuisine includes stew and bannock, bison and/or elk smoke and rice pudding. Aakoota-kaawaapaamittin! See you there!

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This year the festival weekend will kick off on Thursday, January 28th at 6pm with all pavilions ready to meet their guests with unique and colorful entertainment, delicious ethnic dishes at affordable prices and refreshments that can include a wee bit of the drink from the “country of origin”!

Pavilions will be open for the following minimum hours: Thursday from 6-10pm, Friday from 6-11pm and Saturday 1-11pm

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Thanks to the commitment of over one thousand volun-teers, not to mention their incredible skills and hard work, The Winter Festival remains an entirely FREE event, with no admis-sion charged for entry into pavilions. Complimentary Handi Transit bus service is also available for those who require. Call 204-729-2437 between 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday to book your trip.

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ALL PAVILIONS

Thursday: 6-10 p.m.

Friday: 6-11 p.m.

Saturday: 1-11 p.m.

These are minimum hours and some pavilions

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Brandon’s much beloved winter event, The Winter Festival, formerly known as the Lt Governor’s Winter Festival will return this year for its 13th edition, January 28, 29 & 30, 2016. This three-day, city-wide celebration of culture will take place at a variety of locations around the city. EIGHT outstanding pavilions will be showcasing cultural foods, dance, music and more – English, Chinese, Brazil, Irish, Scottish, Ukrainian, Mauritius and Métis.

This year the festival weekend will kick off on Thursday, January 28th at 6pm with all pavilions ready to meet their guests with unique and colorful entertainment, delicious ethnic dishes at affordable prices and refreshments that can include a wee bit of the drink from the “country of origin”!

Pavilions will be open for the following minimum hours: Thursday from 6-10pm, Friday from 6-11pm and Saturday 1-11pm

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Thanks to the commitment of over one thousand volun-teers, not to mention their incredible skills and hard work, The Winter Festival remains an entirely FREE event, with no admis-sion charged for entry into pavilions. Complimentary Handi Transit bus service is also available for those who require. Call 204-729-2437 between 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday to book your trip.

“Can’t wait to see YOU at the 2016 Winter Festival”

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At Lakeland College, Brandon’s Laura Popple-stone has grown on and off the volleyball court.

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on serve receive and de-fence,” Dyer said. “This took a couple years for her to understand what her job was as the libero and to have enough confidence in her abilities to be able to do the job properly.

“Now that she is a vet-eran player in my program and in our league, she is flourishing in her role as the libero,” Dyer added. “She has a very gritty at-titude and expects to suc-ceed and demands the same thing from her team-mates. This attitude and work ethic has turned her into the player she is to-day.”

The libero comes into the game to play exclusively in the back row. It is their job to dig up the hard hit balls hammered at them by the other side’s top spikers.

“Libero may be a posi-tion that appears to have little ‘glamour’, but if your team is successful, then all the floor burns are worth it,” Popplestone said. “You have the opportunity to control the back half of the court and give your players the opportunity to get that big kill to help you take the lead or win the game.”

In addition to her con-tributions as a libero, Pop-plestone is counted on as a leader for the Rustlers. Liberoes are not allowed to officially be captains because they’re on and off the court so much. Howev-er, Popplestone has acted as an assistant captain. She says one of the highlights of her career has been help-ing some of the younger girls and watching them become successful.

“It’s been awesome watching her take younger players under her wing and help teach them how to be successful student-athletes as well,” Dyer said.

Off the court at Lakeland College, she has already earned a Bachelor of Gen-eral Studies and is now in the mental health practitio-ner program.

“I grew up with an uncle diagnosed with down syn-drome, which struck my love to work with people diagnosed with develop-mental disabilities,” said Popplestone, who has an-other year of school and volleyball eligibility re-maining. “After working four amazing summers with people who have de-velopmental disabilities, going into a program of mental health felt like the perfect choice.”

Popplestone got her start in volleyball in Grade 6 as part of the St. Augustine girls team. She said that after watching her brother Garrett, a former BU star and pro player, perform on the court, there was no question that she was go-ing to continue to play.

Popplestone says she’s received strong support from her parents, Ron and Juliette, during her volley-ball career.

“They make the long 10-plus hour drive out from Manitoba at least once every semester and when they aren’t there in person, I can guarantee they’re watching on a computer screen somewhere around the world,” said Popple-stone, who also noted that her brother and his fiancé,

Jessi-Beth, are big fans. “They are definitely my role models and have given me far more support than what I could ask of them.”

With the Rustlers, Pop-plestone has been part of successful and memorable seasons. In 2013, the squad finished second at the ACAC championships and won silver medals at the

Canadian Collegiate Ath-letic Association nationals.

“Winning a silver medal in your home gym was def-initely a feeling that is hard to beat,” Popplestone said with a smile.

Popplestone will have great memories of her time as a Rustler and appreci-ates all that her coach has done for her.

“He has worked with me since my first season as a Rustler and helped me get through growing pains and struggles to turn me into a decent player and leader,” she said. “Austin taught me the skills I needed to learn and gave me the op-portunity to use them, and I couldn’t be more grateful.”

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Ovechkin pulls ahead in Crosby battleIt didn’t make the

‘Obits’ page in The Hockey News, but the Sidney Crosby-Alex Ovechkin rivalry is dead.

The two superstars broke into the NHL in 2005-06 and Ovechkin, almost two years older, racked up four more points (106 to 102) than the 18-year-old Sid the Kid from Nova Scotia, and won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. They have been linked ever since and while both starred for 10 years, Crosby won a Stanley Cup while Ovechkin’s chance for Cup glory fi nally appears on the horizon this season.

So who is better? Who was better? Who will go down in hockey’s history books as the better player? Those questions need more time.

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directed at Ovechkin one night at the MTS Centre that thundered down: “CROS-by’s BET-ter!” in a singsong voice that served only to annoy, not to anoint.

Now both in their 11th seasons, Crosby and Ovechkin seem to be heading in different directions. Ovi’s Capitals are the class of the NHL, with only eight losses and, at last glance, a 12-point lead over their nearest rival in the Eastern Conference. Ovechkin recently scored his 500th career goal (185 more than Crosby has scored) and will challenge again for the Hart Trophy as the league’s MVP (he’s already won three Harts).

Crosby, meanwhile, has been the face of Canadian hockey since

he entered the league in 2005. He had 102 points that season, led the Penguins to a Stanley Cup in 2008-09 and joined Paul Henderson atop the pedestal of Canadian hockey heroes by scoring the ‘golden goal’ in overtime as Canada prevailed over the U.S. at the Olympics in 2010. He has two scoring titles and two MVPs to his credit.

But this season has been a grind. Crosby’s stats are ordinary, at best. He’s averaging less than a point a game (his career mark is around 1.3), the Penguins are under .500 and while enforcer and zero-goal scorer John Scott of Arizona (now Montreal) was named a captain for the NHL all-star game, the great Sidney Crosby didn’t even rate an invitation.

Jets’ fans can start practising their new song: “O-vi’s BET-ter!” But as Meatloaf famously sang: “Ain’t no doubt about it,

we were doubly blessed …” by two of the greatest hockey players we’ll ever see — going head to head for more than a decade. It was great while it lasted, but it’s over. Looks like Ovi has won.• Brad Dickson of

the Omaha World-Herald: “Tampa Bay Buccaneers fi red coach Lovie Smith by phone. The only thing more insensitive would be Instagraming him a copy of the help wanted ads.”

• Dickson again: “Johnny Manziel has appeared in so many possibly alcohol-related videos, he’s been named an honorary Clydesdale.”

• Bob Molinaro of p i l o t o n l i n e . c o m (Hampton, Va.), on Twitter: “As for Johnny Manziel’s career strategy after Cleveland, he should think seriously about investigating the bar scene in Winnipeg.”

• Reader Ryan Bradley, via Twitter, to SportsPickle.com: “If the Bengals beat themselves, does that mean Marvin Lewis fi nally won a playoff game?”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Donald Trump says NFL football has gone soft, a bunch of namby-pambies no longer allowed the constitutional freedom to use their heads as battering rams. That’s easy for Trump to say. He goes through life with his head protected by a large, orange bale of hay.”

• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Johnny Manziel reportedly partied in Vegas wearing a blonde wig and fake moustache. Just like that he went from Johnny Football to Johnny Goofball.”

• Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien: “An

NFL player is about to become a father for the 12th time with nine different women. So today, he was traded to the NBA.”

• James Corden of CBS late night TV: “Huge news for the city of Los Angeles, because after 21 years, the city is fi nally getting a football team. The Rams are moving back to L.A. — so fi nally another thing for the people of Los Angeles to pretend to care about.”

• Another one from Conan: “The Minnesota Vikings lost their playoff game when their kicker missed a 27-yard fi eld goal. The kicker is now in an undisclosed location, waiting to meet with Sean Penn.”

• Headline at Fark.com: “Owner who can’t get along with prior coach hires coach who couldn’t get along with prior owner.”

• Broncos linebacker Von Miller, to reporters, on getting sick from eating mozzarella sticks while watching the new “Stars Wars” movie: “Can’t put regular gas in a Ferrari. I learned that.”

• Another one from Dickson, after a 14-year-old became the fi rst to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under fi ve seconds: “It took me six seconds to get my Rubik’s Cube out of the box.”

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Patients in Souris can now keep specialist appointments without leaving their own community.

Thanks to advanced technology through Telehealth sites, patients are able to meet with their doctors through video conferencing.

“Telehealth is the use of information technology to connect people to health-care expertise at a distance,” explains a press release from PMH. “Telehealth uses a secure link to provide videoconferencing for health-care services, continuing education, health-related meetings and family visits between communities across Manitoba. Over 500 different clinician specialists provide services on the network coming from over 60 different specialty areas.”

Prairie Mountain Health Region currently offers 24 sites including Souris, Benito, Camperville,

Ethelbert, Treherne and Waterhen, which were recently added. Locally, Virden and Neepawa also offer such services.

The technology provides many benefi ts for patients and staff in rural areas according to Sandy Allen, regional manager for patient and client relations.

“Having Telehealth close to home gives patients access to specialists in their own communities where they would otherwise have to drive to Brandon or Winnipeg to keep these appointments,” she said.

Allen mentioned several burdens to travel including the time needed to make the drive, the possibility of inconveniencing a friend or family member who needs to take time off work to assist the patient, the stress associated with travel and having to deal with adverse weather.

“Telehealth gives patients the opportunity to keep these appointments

without the barriers of geography and travel associated with being in a rural area.”

She explained that not all appointments are suited to teleconferencing but often follow-up appointments can be held in this manner providing the specialist has the equipment.

“Patients are encouraged to ask their local physician if the specialist they’re being referred to is available by Telehealth,” she said.

Mental health and cancer health are the two leading users of the system at the present time with respiratory and dermatology also being popular.

The system is a great benefi t for patients but is also being utilized by the staff in a number of ways.

“We do a lot of education with the system,” she said.

Learning sessions allow staff to take part in opportunities with presenters across the

country.“Staff members are

able to take one hour to participate rather than have to take time off to travel to a larger centre. It’s really opening doors.”

The health region is also using the system to provide orientation to

new staff members in a convenient, easy to access model through the system.

The specialized technology costs between $40,000 and $50,000 per site to install. Through an assessment of need, Prairie Mountain Health presents a list of communities in

need of the service to the provincial government. The government then makes a decision on which communities will be funded for the service and Souris was among the most recent sites to be chosen.

Two days of information gathering and thorough de-liberation by Brandon City Council earlier this month has yielded an approved 2016 municipal operat-ing budget increase that Mayor Rick Chrest and councillors agree is “very palatable to the Brandon taxpayer” according to a release.

The council-approved, $81-million operating bud-get represents a municipal tax increase of 0.59 per cent, which means a resi-dential property assessed at this year’s average will see an increase in munici-pal taxes of $10.54 from 2015 levels.

Dozens of additions and deletions were debated, however, at the close of council deliberations, the following changes to the financial plan were ap-proved:

• A reduction of $50,000 from the Community De-velopment Department’s special initiatives budget;

• A $26,000 increase in funding to the Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation, to be dedi-cated to affordable housing initiatives;

• The addition of $50,000 in bridging fund-ing to ensure the Aborigi-nal Community Coordi-nator position remains in place while awaiting senior government funding;

• The addition of $85,000 in funding to assist the Pro-vincial Exhibition of Man-itoba’s continued Dome Building restoration;

• The addition of $80,000 in operational funding for the Brandon General Mu-seum and Archives Inc.;

• The addition of $50,000 in additional funding for Renaissance Brandon,

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• The addition of $500 in funding for the Brandon-Westman Christmas Cheer Registry to correct a 2016 granting omission;

• An addition of $10,000 in support of Brandon’s Samaritan House Minis-tries;

• The addition of $500,000 in funding for the Keystone Centre’s long-term capital plan, based on matching provin-cial dollars;

• An addition of $15,000 to augment the Municipal Heritage Advisory Com-mittee’s heritage plaque recognition program;

• A reduction of $100,00 from the Brandon Fire & Emergency Services over-time budget;

• The removal of $30,000 in capital fund-ing for the design of the Cultural Resource Centre’s Community Kitchen;

• The removal of $125,000 in capital fund-ing for the Recreation Master Plan refresh pro-cess;

• A reduction of $102,123 from the A.R. McDiarmid Civic Complex debenture;

• An addition of $124,110 to fulfill a local funding contribution re-quirement for the Brandon Regional Health Centre’s capital project;

• The reduction of $200,000 to recognize sav-ings from unplanned staff-ing vacancies;

• A variety of reserve appropriation reductions totalling approximately $350,000.

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On the other hand, if your expected marginal tax rate in retirement is equal to or higher than during your accumula-tion years, contributing to your TFSA is not always the best approach. For example, RRSPs that are converted to a RRIF or an annuity after age 65 can produce income that

is eligible for the pension income tax credit, and thus qualifies for pension income-splitting with your spouse. Other in-come-splitting strategies such as spousal RRSPs could distribute a portion of your taxable income to a spouse with a lower marginal tax rate in re-tirement, further reducing your tax bill and reducing the claw-back effect on your income-tested ben-efits and credits.

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United Way raises more than $713K in 2015

The United Way Bran-don and District held its annual touchdown lun-cheon earlier this month and it was announced that a total of $713,801 was raised in 2015.

The charity ended up falling short of its cam-paign goal of $800,000 however local United Way CEO Cynamon Mychasiw says with the way things turned out, more funds were put into the hands of organizations that needed it most. In 2016, United Way will be committing five per cent more multi-year funding than what was provided to programs and services in 2015.

Tara Ashcroft, United Way campaign chair, spent time at the podium during the event, which took place Jan. 18 at the Victoria Inn, and says she was very hon-oured to serve in the role for an organization that’s near and dear to her heart.

“In 2011, I had the op-portunity to work as a sponsored executive in the United Way office,” she explained. “That experi-

ence gave me a better un-derstanding for the need of United Way in our commu-nity. I saw the hundreds of hours volunteers and staff invest to make the cam-paign a success.”

Mychasiw says Ash-croft was invaluable to the United Way in 2015, add-ing that she was out early mornings, late evenings and on weekends cam-paigning.

“Whenever we needed her, she was there for us,” she said. “It’s incredible to have someone going for-ward into a campaign that has the same kind of pas-sion for the organization that we have.”

The 2015 campaign theme was “Every Dollar Tells a Story” and Ashcroft witnessed that first-hand during the campaign sea-son.

“The story of how Scott and his wife wanted to become better parents so they enrolled in parenting classes at the Elspeth Reid Family Resource Cen-tre,” she explained. “The story of How Shirley was diagnosed with advanced glaucoma and was referred to CNIB, where with the proper equipment, contin-

ued her employment and remained independent. The story of Rylan joining Youth Revolution to be-come a skilled leader.”

Or Susan, she says, a cli-ent residing at the YWCA Meredith Place transition residence, who suffers from mental health chal-lenges and needs to live in a supervised setting.

“When Susan arrived at Meredith Place, she lacked confidence while constant-ly worrying about things,” Ashcroft added. “ As time passed, she came to trust the staff and understand they were on her side. Su-san now volunteers and as-sists the cook and cleans in the kitchen which has been a boost to her self-esteem. Susan has come out of her shell and is a joy to have living at Meredith Place.

Ashcroft says one in three Brandonites have a story to tell – whether it’s a family member, neigh-bour, friend, co-worker or “even the stranger that you passed on the street,” she told the audience in atten-dance.

Ashcroft went on to say that the United Way board of directors spend numer-ous hours reviewing fund-

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ing applications, ensuring each one meets a certain mandate.

The mandate includes helping those in need take the first steps out of pov-erty and ensuring every-one’s basic human needs are met; improving the accessibility of social and health related services; supporting the engagement of the community and its residents; supporting the integration and settlement of the community; improv-ing accessibility of early childhood learning and development; helping kids succeed academically and receive a high school di-ploma and helping with the health transition into adult-hood and pursuing a post-secondary education.

“The requests for fund-ing always exceed the dollars that we have available,” Ashcroft said. “The board of directors diligence has resulted in a funding plan that will ensure programs and ser-vices that our community depends on can continue their valuable work.”

The United Way in Brandon supports more than 25 organizations and 31 programs in Westman

such as Family Visions, MS Society, Samaritan House Ministries, West-man Immigrant Services and many more.

Mychasiw thanks province for much need-ed help

At the touchdown lun-cheon, Mychasiw took a moment to thank the prov-ince for providing funds to keep the United Way office running.

Mychasiw says each year, the province supplies an operating grant which pays the wages of the Unit-ed Way staff.

“The operating grant and United Way special events cover the costs of adminis-

tration for our local office, so we can assure donors that their dollars are going back into the community where they belong,” she said.

Search for 2016 cam-paign chair begins

United Way is currently in search of its 2016 cam-paign chair, a position that is hoped to be filled and announced at the AGM in March.

The campaign itself will officially launch in Sep-tember under the direction of United Way’s new cam-paign director Tyler Horan.

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“Dr. Deborah Poff had a conversation with a mature student with children a number of years ago,” explained Scott Lamont, BU’s vice president of admin-istration and finance. “She was unable to find accommodations for her and her children and as

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a result was going to have to discontinue her studies.”

The conversation set in motion work that would eventually lead to the announcement earlier this month that students with families will soon have an af-fordable place to call home at the university. Thanks to a $12-million commitment from the province, a three-storey apartment building will be constructed and will include 16 three-bed-room units and eight two-bedroom units. An additional nine duplex buildings will be con-structed and consist of a total of 18 three-bed-room townhouse units. The project has been de-signed to accommodate

42 student families. The housing is aimed at low- to medium-income stu-dents with rent based on affordable rates for the area. Half of the units are being geared toward the family’s income.

“We will be working with Manitoba Hous-ing to determine the exact parameters for the agreements,” said Lamont, who says the geared-to-income units will make continuing studies feasible for more people.

At this time, the hous-ing is intended for year-round students who are the head of their house-hold. Whether these students need to be at-tending classes full-time is yet to be deter-mined. Lamont stated that families come in all descriptions but that the project is intended for those people with children. He added that there may be constraints from Manitoba Hous-ing that need to be taken into consideration. A planning session to set the parameters for ten-ants will be worked out in the near future.

“We currently do not

have housing suitable for married people and those with families. Our resi-dence provides a great place for students to live on campus, but it’s not set up for children,” he said.

With vacancy rates near one per cent throughout the city, the university recognized the need to provide ad-ditional housing options.

“There was a big con-cern for people wanting to get a post-secondary education but who were unable to find housing. This housing will be rea-sonable, affordable and only three blocks from the university.”

The complex will be developed at the former Fleming School site on two acres of land. The area is located between 23rd and 25th Streets and Louise and Victo-ria Avenue. Parking will be developed on what would have been 24th Street. The land mean-while, is owned by Bran-don University.

Each unit will consist of private kitchen, living and bedroom spaces with

laundry facilities avail-able within the complex.

With the drawings complete, the project is now expected to go to tender soon with the hope that construction will begin in August of this year. It is expected that construction will take 15 months to complete with occupancy possible as early as September, 2017 for the initial units with the potential for the final units being occupied by January, 2018.

Brandon University also offers residence ac-commodations on cam-pus for students and that vacancy rates fluctuate each year but generally sit around what Lamont describes as “two-thirds to close to full.”

This year, the resident accommodations are close to full.

“If we can ensure housing for families, the project has the potential to increase enrolment,” Lamont added.

Exactly what that in-crease could be is yet to be determined.

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Assiniboine Community College will have support from the province to redevelop the Parkland Building on the college’s North Hill Campus.

“Our government has a strong record of investing in Brandon and I am tremendously proud of the hard work done by ACC to provide educational opportunities to the Westman community,” said minister of education and advanced learning, James Allum, in a release. “Our investment today ensures ACC will be able to provide exceptional education for years to come.”

The project will redevelop the iconic 103-year-old Parkland Building, which will be home to a new Centre for Health, Energy and Environment, serving as a hub for learning and research innovation. It will provide much-needed capacity for the college to develop and enhance programming, graduating highly skilled indi-viduals that are job-ready and proficient in their fields, minister Allum noted.

The Manitoba government will provide up to two-thirds of the total cost of the project, which is estimated to be $94.1 million, subject to project approval from the federal government. The province will also provide an additional $4 million toward environmental remedia-tion work on the project.

“We are pleased the province of Manitoba has made supporting the development of our North Hill Campus an infrastructure priority,” said ACC president Mark Frison. “This investment will better position us to serve learners, employers and communities and con-tribute to the economic development of Manitoba.”

The new Centre for Health, Energy and Environment will accommodate up to 355 students to be relocated from the Victoria Avenue East Campus, as well as 192 new students. The Centre for Health, Energy and Envi-ronment will increase capacity for education opportuni-ties by contributing to Manitoba’s commitment to add 75,000 more workers to the labour force by 2020.

“The Brandon and Westman community will ben-efit for decades into the future by this transformational provincial investment being made here today,” said municipal government minister Drew Caldwell. “The Centre for Health, Energy and Environment here at ACC will further strengthen Brandon’s position as an economic hub in Westman and make Brandon an even better place to learn, work and live.”


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Did you know that Mauritius is a volcanic island?

Maurituis is a volcanic island set in a turquoise blue sea and sheltered by bar-riers of coral reef. It is an oasis of peace and tranquility, a place where past and present blend together. Now, are you won-dering. “Where is this oasis?” Mauritius is located approximately 2000kms from the south-eastern coast of Africa and lies east of Madagascar, and has long been a dream destination. Known to the Arabs as early as the 10th century, but officially ‘discov-ered’ in 1505 by Portuguese navigator Pe-dro Mascarenhas, the island was occupied successively by the Dutch, the French, and

the British. On March 12, 1992.The Dutch brought African slaves over

to the island to work in the sugar cane, banana and tea plantations. However, the Dutch were not too keen on the weather so they departed, leaving the French in charge, who remained until the British in-vaded in 1810. India was then under Brit-ish rule, so instead of African slaves they introduced Indian workers to the planta-tions. Slavery was finally abolished in 1835. Our main industry today is tourism which still brings people of varying ethnic backgrounds to our shores.

Due to the many cultures that have ended up on the island, most people in Mauritius are bilingual - fluent in English and French, although Creole and French are the main languages spoken in the ev-eryday environment. Mauritius is a blend

of diverse cultures and religions including Hindus, Creole and Chinese, among oth-ers.

What is the Brazilian ‘Capoeira’?Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art,

which combines elements of music, dance, acrobatics, attacks, and counterattacks in a flowing “jogo” or game. This art form was developed by African slaves in Brazil over 400 years ago, in their struggle for free-dom and survival. Capoeira is played in-side a circle, called the roda, and there is a dialogue between the players. The rhythm, which dictates the nature and speed of the game, is formed by several important in-struments, called the berimbau, atabaque, pandeiro, and agogo, as well as clapping and singing by the other players in the roda.

What is the Yangge?This will be performed at the Chinese

pavilion. Yangge is a representative col-lective folk dance that combines music, dance and feats. Yangge originated from rice planting and farming; it is all about being happy, as farmers celebrate the sea-son’s harvest. The performers are dressed up, each having a red silk band around the waist, and a fan or a handkerchief in hand. They will swing their bodies to music played by drum, trumpet, and gong. Most people perform Yangge in the first 15 days after the Chinese New Year. Now, Yangge has spread in cities and has become a kind of popular exercise for urban dwellers.

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Judges needed for Western Manitoba Science Fair in BrandonTerri EgerWestman [email protected]

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If you have an interest in science, the Western Manitoba Science Fair is looking for you. The best and brightest students will be putting together outstanding projects during the annual Western Manitoba Science Fair. but judges are needed.

Judging chair Robyn

Forsman said that 120 judges are needed for the event, scheduled for Tuesday, March 15 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon. Judging takes place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. with lunch provided for the volunteers.

Last year, 678 students participated in the science fair from Grades 1-12, says Forsman. “It was the biggest fair I’ve ever seen.”

Students are grouped in categories according to grade level and often new judges are more comfortable reviewing the elementary grades. Parents, university students, professors and people who work in science-related industries all make great judges, says Forsman.

“A judge should have some knowledge of the science fi eld and also be

someone who is easy to talk to,” she said. “Often these students come from small schools and the large fair setting can be intimidating for them.”

Judges are invited to attend a training workshop leading up to the event that includes plenty of time to ask questions and feel comfortable with their duties. The morning of the fair a review is also

provided and instructions are given.

The majority of the judges can complete their duties by 1 p.m. and return to work in the afternoon. Additional judges are required in the afternoon for special awards for those available to stay longer. If you don’t think judging is for you, but you’d like to be involved in the event, there are a number of other

volunteer positions to be fi lled.

“The fair involves a lot of students with some great projects,” Forsman added. “It’s really a showing of the best of the best.”

For more details on becoming a judge at the Western Manitoba Science Fair, visit www.wmsf.com for a complete instruction booklet and registration information.

PUZZLES

ACROSS1. Random try5. Thorn9. Frenzied12.Adjust, as a

radio13.Burn-soothing

plant14.Polar sight15.Everywhere17.“Murder,

____ Wrote”18.Title giver19.Left out21.TV’s Arkin23.Realize24.Summertime

forecast26.Shed tears28.Bottle

32.Turn over____ leaf: 2wds.

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length skirt46.Plots50.Wool-eating

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58.Beauty spot59.Paint the

town ____60.Musher’s

vehicle61.Winter

crystals

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cartoons4. Slanting

edge5. Banish6. Additionally

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time27.Life story,

briefly29.Tryout30.____ lodge

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ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 804

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ANSWERSUSE AMERICAN SPELLING

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PUZZLE NO. 540

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One of the numerous pieces of farm machinery on display at this year’s Ag Days, which took place earlier this month at the Keystone Centre.

Photo by Lanny Stewart

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Reg Helwer, MLA Bran-don West (far left) and Len Isleifson, PC candi-date for Brandon East, recently presented a cheque to Myrna Lane, chair of Brandon-West-man Christmas Cheer registry. The cheque is proceeds from the Christmas Cheer break-fast held Dec. 12 at Seniors for Seniors.

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