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Jean Stremel is one of the students taking part in the Age is an As-set training program, which recently received a boost in provincial and federal funding.

Age is an Asset program receives provincial and federal funding

At 57 years of age, Jean Stremel wants nothing to do with retirement. In fact, the Brandon prod-uct wants to start her own business.

“I wasn’t ready to sit on the sidelines,” she said during a press conference last week at the Samari-tan House training centre.

Stremel, among many other Westman residents, have the opportunity to upgrade their skills and job training, enabling them to re-enter the work force through the newly established Age is an Asset training program, which is being offered at Samaritan House in the Wheat City.

Age is an Asset is funded by the federal and provincial government through the Targeted Ini-tiative for Older Work-ers (TIOW) program. It was announced recently that more than $996,000 has been invested into the multi-year project in Manitoba. The Age is an Asset program in Bran-don will provide unem-

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Jobs Minister Kevin Chief says the most ex-perienced people in our hometowns are the peo-ple who often offer the most.

“Employers want to hire hardworking, reli-able people,” he said. “They know their sur-rounding area so if there’s someone who wants to start a business, these are the people that you want starting busi-nesses because they rec-ognize that.”

The federal govern-ment states that the pro-gram has assisted more than 38,000 unemployed older workers in smaller communities across the country – with approxi-mately 75 per cent find-ing jobs after participat-ing.

“For people who are willing to go back to

school, to go back to learning and go back and put yourself in that posi-tion, it takes an enormous amount of strength and courage,” Chief added. “The great example here today is that we know there are a tremendous amount of people sitting at home saying to them-selves, ‘I wonder if I can do it?’ We don’t have to tell the most experienced people in our home com-munities that they can do it, we can actually show them because Jean (Stremel) is willing stand up like so many others.”

For Stremel, who plans to start a home staging business, the bits and pieces of information she was able to glean off of TV wasn’t enough. She quickly realized that more training was needed if she was going to follow through on her plan.

“I want to do this. I know that some people will probably be helping me with management and running a business. I’ll be picking their brains because they’re entrepre-neurs themselves,” she said. “They’ll help me along as well in terms of

the business aspect.”She says elders are

looking for different things to do as they get older and this program will help in that regard.

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ing out what they really want, what they need and fulfilling that.”

The Age is an As-set program runs for 12 weeks with initial classes beginning in September.

at this age,” she added. “We’re looking for dif-ferent things to do and we have so much experi-ence. We can help other people, so that’s part of this home staging is find-

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Locals enjoying some ball hockey practice at the Kinsmen Arena on Sunday night. The event helped promote the Western Regional Ball Hockey Championships, which take place July 24-26 in Brandon. Every ball hockey participant received an admission ticket to come out and enjoy the championships.

Photo by Dannielle Morrisseau

Above: A look at the air show that took place re-cently at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum. The air show included a World War II B-17 Bomber, otherwise known as “Sentimental Journey.” Right: A look at the B-17 Bomber up close.

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Historic aircraft spends some time in Wheat City

A historic aircraft made its presence felt in the Wheat City recently.

A World War II B-17 Bomber – otherwise known as “Sentimental Journey” – touched down at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum as part of a tour by the Com-memorative Air Force Airbase based in Arizona. The large aircraft, which includes 13 50-caliber ma-chine guns and could carry a bomb load upwards of 8,000 pounds, was show-cased for folks for an en-tire week culminating in an air show which took place earlier this month.

The aircraft had been in Brandon once before back in 2013, says Stephen Hayter, executive director of the museum.

“It’s similar to what we’re doing this year with some respects. We had such a good relationship with the B-17 crew, that we figured we’d bring it back.”

Hayter says Archie Lon-dry and Reg Forbes, both of whom were founding members of the museum, received a ride in the large aircraft from Winnipeg to Brandon.

Crew member Shelby Bolke says the B-17 that was in Brandon was built in 1944 and it was used as a personal taxi for General MacArthur between is-lands on the Pacific during that time. The aircraft also did aerial mapping of the Philippine Islands.

During test phases with the aircraft back in the day, crew members at-tempted to attach a wood-


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en boat under the fuselage for air/sea rescue, which Bolke says, didn’t work very well.

“If you’re a fisherman, you know you can’t drop a wooden boat from a great distance into the water and have it survive.”

Why is the B-17 called Sentimental Journey?According to the Ari-

zona Wing Aviation Muse-um website, a contest was initiated by local media to name the aircraft, which resulted in more than 800 entries. The name “Senti-mental Journey” wound up being selected. The deci-sion was then made to use the most famous pin-up picture of World War II for the nose art. The addition of legendary actress Betty Grable was added to the front of the plane, mainly because Hollywood made a number of movies about the aircraft (which is also known as the ‘Flying For-tress’) which included the starlet.

Fleet Finch purchasedThe Museum recently

added another aircraft to its stable with the purchase of a Fleet Finch.

The two-seater aircraft was mainly used as an el-ementary trainer during WWII.

The Fleet Finch did not get in the air during the air show, but the museum does have plans on flying it at some point during the summer.

For more information on the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, go online to www.airmuseum.ca. The museum is located at Brandon Municipal Air-port on Highway 10, ap-proximately a kilometre and a half north of the city.

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US after the Bank of Can-ada cut its key interest rate to 0.5 per cent from 0.75 per cent.

In response to the cas-cade of troubling eco-nomic news, Harper told an audience in Pickering, Ont. several days ago that “there has been a down-turn and the reason for that has been the down-turn in the global econ-omy. It’s really that sim-ple. . . those things have obviously affected this country and in particular through oil prices and some commodity prices.”

The Prime Minister’s comments are a gift to NDP leader Thomas Mul-cair and Liberal leader

Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants his govern-ment’s management of Canada’s economy to be the ballot box issue in this October’s federal elec-tion. He should be careful what he wishes for.

The PM argues his government deserves credit for the nation’s economic performance over the past decade and that only he can be trusted to safely lead us through fiscal challenges that threaten the nation’s finances. It is an assertion that helped carry him to victory in past elections, and there are those who contend that recent eco-nomic instability will only strengthen his case in the coming campaign.

Perhaps, but that as-sumes Canadians will remain oblivious to the gaping flaw in Harper’s argument. Consider these facts:

In less than a year, the price of oil has dropped by half, resulting in a significant cut in govern-ment revenues that forced the Conservative govern-ment to delay the delivery of its budget by several weeks.

In addition to causing thousands of job losses in the energy sector, the rap-id decline in oil prices is the reason for the loonie’s plunge in value against the U.S. dollar, making many products and ser-vices that Canadians rely

upon more expensive.Canada has built up a

whopping $13.6 billion trade deficit over the first five months of this year, with exports declining by 4.5 percent since the end of 2014. The government had predicted a modest re-covery in May but instead saw the second-highest monthly trade deficit in our history. The highest occurred in March.

Over the past three weeks, a number of in-stitutions and econo-mists have concluded that Canada is in a reces-sion, which is defined as two consecutive quar-ters of negative growth. Economists at both TD Bank and Bank of Amer-ica Merrill Lynch say the economy shrunk by 0.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2015, follow-ing an identical contrac-tion in the first quarter.

Statistics Canada re-vealed earlier this month that the Canadian econ-omy lost another 6,400 jobs in June. Sadly, that figure was received as good news, as economists had predicted that 10,000 jobs would be lost. The news came as the Inter-national Monetary Fund cut its projection for Can-ada’s economic growth in 2015 from 2.2 per cent to just 1.5 per cent.

Last Wednesday, the loonie dropped by 1.2 cents US to a post-reces-sion low of 77.29 cents

Justin Trudeau, who can now use Harper’s own words to dismantle and discredit the core of his case for re-election.

They can point out that the PM claims he alone can protect the nation’s economy from the im-pact of external economic pressure, but admits he is powerless to protect us from the harm caused by collapsing oil prices.

They can credibly ar-gue he claims to have a superior understanding of the world economy, but failed to anticipate how a rapid increase in

the world’s oil supply in mid-2014 would impact Canada a year later.

They can remind Ca-nadians he takes credit for leading the country out of the 2008-09 eco-nomic downturn, but his government’s economic stimulus program actu-ally commenced after that recession had already passed.

They can accuse him of taking undeserved credit when the economy is per-forming well, but deflect-ing blame to others when it is not.

Moments after Wednes-

day’s interest rate cut, Harper warned that now is not the time to take ‘unnecessary risks’ by electing an NDP or Lib-eral government in the coming election. With the country mired in its second recession in less than a decade, job losses mounting and the dollar in freefall – and a Prime Minister who now con-cedes he’s largely impo-tent to do anything about it – Trudeau and Mulcair are in a stronger position to suggest he isn’t the so-lution to the situation, but rather the problem.

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her Ashley for the sake of this column – received word that her job was pushed back a week. She quickly realized she need-ed a boost financially in the meantime.

Ashley decided to start

an online fundraiser page on Facebook. She prompt-ly asked her friends that she needed help. In just a short period of time, I no-ticed Ashley receiving a sizeable portion of funds to help her through her ‘tough time’.

Ashley eventually let

her friends know just how appreciative she was of the funds she received by posting a message, say-ing “thank you” to all her Facebook pals. She also decided to show off her new outfit she purchased – with the funds she re-ceived from her Facebook friends of course – for all to see.

Hmmm… Interesting. I guess the pictures of food and shelter were too bor-ing to post.

This crosses the moral-ity line for me. People go through trials and tribula-tions all the time, but it doesn’t mean we ask for a handout.

In the meantime, I’m going to help people who, in my opinion, truly need it. A guy I went to high school with is currently battling Stage 3 Hodg-kin’s Lymphoma. He’s married, has two kids and isn’t able to work due to treatments. His wife meanwhile, is on mater-nity leave.

This is a family who needs our help. (Type “Jeramy Ewbank’s can-cer fund” on Facebook and click on the link to donate.)

But hey, Ashley has a new outfit. Let’s all ap-preciate that. Shall we?

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A survey published in early July shows that we Canadians belong to the most reputable country in the world. A total of 55 countries were ranked using 16 measurements including safety, beauty, social and economic poli-cies and how friendly res-idents were. The survey takers indicated that there was no corruption.

Obviously they didn’t look in Ottawa at either the Senate or some of our MPs. Why let a few politicians’ hands in the tax trough ruin it for all of us?

By the way, this is the fifth year running that Canada has been either first or second place.

Here are some news headlines (believe it or not)...

Prince Philip caught sweating on cameraGood gawd since when

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might be newsworthy…I wonder if the Queen

was amused when she read the headline. What’s next? Royal family mem-ber has hole in socks?

How common is sex on an airplane

The story reveals that a Nova Scotia woman was given nine months pro-bation for an ‘indecent act’ she committed with a male passenger on a flight to Halifax.

Apparently some trav-ellers want to join the mile high club.

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to get a visit to the termi-nal.

Men prefer younger more average looking womenThat was the conclu-

sion of a study done by universities in Chile, Spain and Portugal. This study focussed on facial features and found that the guys in the study pre-ferred younger looking faces.

OK guys admit it. When a woman walks into a room the first thing you look at is her face, right? (Your wife won’t know the answer since you don’t have to say it out loud.) Maybe you’re more inclined to notice the shoes she’s wearing?

(Yeah… like that hap-pens.)

Donald Trump wants Republican presidential

nominationThe billionaire has

alienated immigrants with his comments but so far has spared us Cana-dians. If elected, will he stop hockey players from crossing the border?

After all, they carry a big stick and can swing it too.

Canada’s prime lend-ing rate is now at .05 per cent which keeps mort-gage and other lending rates low.

By coincidence, the debt load of Canadians is also increasing.

Meanwhile, a new trend in wills shows par-ents leaving their kids and grandkids the house, the car and the payments.

You know you’re old when...

I recently tried to ex-plain to a six-year-old who was visiting the Brandon General Mu-

seum what a typewriter was. After banging away at the keyboard for a few seconds, she looked at me and asked “Where’s the screen?”

Try explaining that we used to have keyboards with no screens attached to them, and yes, there are those that have wires

sticking out and are at-tached to the wall. If you want to take a trip down memory lane, feel nos-talgic, or just old, visit a museum.

Thought for the week: We’re just about halfway through summer and that lawn lounger still isn’t worn out.

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No. 1 lie: Skipping breakfast will promote faster fat loss

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assumes that an individual is hormonally balanced enough with stable blood sugars to endure a day long fast.

When we sleep, our bod-ies run through a detoxi-fication cycle and require certain vitamins and miner-als to finish off the cleanse properly. It’s important for this detox phase to be in a fasted state and to break-the-fast with amino acids (protein), fat and vegeta-bles.

If you skip breakfast and fast without taking care that your blood sugar levels are balanced you will ex-perience a crash and crave carbs like never before. When you indulge because you’re having a physiologi-cal response, no amount of will power will save you.

No. 2 lie: Gluten-free is better for you

I’m not denying that we should be avoiding wheat and wheat based prod-ucts. Wheat raises blood sugar levels higher than table sugar. The popular

American staple contains inflammatory properties and a protein called gliadin, which is linked to multiple diseases, symptoms and weight gain.

There’s a catch though. Gluten-free products are typically processed and de-void of fiber. Potato starch, tapioca starch, rice and corn are all known GMO foods and they raise blood sugar levels because they’re pul-verized and processed just like wheat.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because you remove the gluten means that you’ll magical-ly shed pounds. Gluten free cereals, breads, cookies, crackers and baked goods are just as horrible for you as the white and wheat ones are.

No. 3 lie: Juicing is a cure-all

It seems like everyone and their mom are juicing these days. There’s a big difference between juic-ing for health and drinking homemade juice. Juicing

for health involves com-bining specific vegetables together that have vita-mins and minerals that are co- factors of each. This is necessary to maximize the nutrient density and ab-sorption rates.

The other key piece of juicing for health that juice gurus leave out is that the health promoting vitamins and minerals included in the juice are fat soluble. Therefore they require fat molecules to ride on in or-der for them to be absorbed.

Juicing fruits is never a good idea. Would you ever eat one orange, one apple and 10 strawberries at one time? I think not! The wonderful thing about fruit and vegetables aside from their nutritious goodness is the fibre they contain. Typical ‘juicers’ remove the skin and seeds where a large portion of the fibre is housed. Hello blood sugar spike.

No. 4 lie: Calories don’t matter

This one gets me every

time. I love it when nutri-tion experts say calories don’t matter – of course they do. Calories provide our bodies with energy and there are endless amounts of research that demon-strates that when we con-sume too much food (calo-ries), regardless of what it is, we gain weight.

We also know that when we exercise intensely and don’t consume enough calories to nourish muscle recovery we experience muscle wasting.

Although calories don’t tell the whole story, calo-rie quality is equally if not more important than daily caloric amounts, but we should NOT be ignoring calories. When you com-bine calorie quality with caloric amounts you have a winning weight loss combi-nation.

No. 5 lie: You must fol-low unrealistic, unattain-able nutrition rules

Let me tell you a secret. Lean in close and listen carefully. The only type

of diet that will ever work for you long-term is a diet you will enjoy and actually follow. It doesn’t do you any good to follow your best friend’s diet or to take supplements that your co-worker recommended.

If you’re unhappy with your body, don’t feel as good as you know you can and are worried about the results from your last phys-ical, then my advice is to start with just one change.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that overhauling your entire diet and life-style and making drastic changes that you know you won’t stick with will work. We both know they won’t.

Start with making one change and then add an-other and then another un-til bam... you get the body and the health you deserve.

Renee Hunt is the own-er of Lustre Fitness and Lifestyle which provides fitness classes and per-sonalized nutrition plans to Brandon and surround-ing area.

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closed in 2000. At the time, the owner couldn’t find a buyer and the park was closed. While the time had come to close the park in 2000, Rose and a group of concerned citizens in the area have been working to re-open the ski hill since 2007.

“It’s the right time to

come back now,” Rose said of the hill situated near McCreary.

The group has the sup-port of numerous resi-dents in the area as well as elected public officials but Parks Canada isn’t in agreement with the project.

“Everyone thinks it should be opened includ-

ing local MPs but Parks Canada has said no to a new operator taking it over,” Rose added.

While he can under-stand the need to maintain natural areas, especially in a national park, Rose argues that there is no en-vironmental issue because there was a ski area there already.

“The runs are in place, the trees are already cleared.”

Ski lift equipment and chalet buildings were run down according to Rose and were in need of re-placement. These have been removed from the site by park staff, leaving a blank slate for Rose and his supporters to create a new attraction in the area.

Hill says the hill and slope of the land is ideal for downhill skiing and snowboarding. With limit-ed hills across the prairies, Hill feels Agassiz Moun-tain would draw a lot of at-

tention and visitors.“We think we can attract

60,000-70,000 people to the area to ski each year,” he said. “It’s a win-win for the park and the whole area. We need to do what we can to bring people to the area which has been named the third most eco-nomically distressed area in Canada.”

Working on the project are a number of people from various backgrounds who “know their stuff,” Rose says. People with ex-perience in the ski indus-try, hospitality and tourism and economics as well as elected officials are work-ing together in an attempt to make the project go ahead. Standing in the way is Parks Canada which has not been forthcoming with information. As such, the group has requested facts through the Access to In-formation Act which is proving to be a long pro-cess.

“Originally they said it would take 30 days, now we’ve been waiting for seven months,” Rose said, who estimates the informa-tion he is requesting would require 19 hours of staff time to produce.

Although there is no exact known timeline of when the information will be supplied, Rose is hope-ful that he’ll have answers by the end of the summer.

“Once we get the an-swers, we will be going to our local MPs and other bodies to move the project forward,” he said. Hill is confident that with the cor-rect answers to the proper questions, officials will agree with the proposal to re-open the resort.

“We still have high hopes that Parks Canada will change their mind and let us move forward once we provide them with all the facts,” Hill concluded.

Daniel Tselyakov, son of Chamber Music Festival founder Alexander Tselyakov, will be showcasing his piano skills at this year’s event.

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The Clear Lake Cham-ber Music Festival will soon be celebrating a big milestone.

The 10th annual event will begin later this month and Alla Turbanova, direc-tor of the festival, couldn’t be more thrilled.

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The event was originally founded by Alexander Tse-lyakov, professor of piano at Brandon University and is a winner of top prizes at several international com-petitions – this includes the International Tchaikovsky competition in 1986.

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The event will begin on Thursday, July 30 at the Lorne Watson Recital Hall at Brandon University. The festival will then shift to Erickson Lutheran Church, Friday, July 31 - Aug. 3. There were also be a jazz performance on The Mar-tese at the Marina at Clear Lake on Sunday, Aug. 2.

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Canadian Football League quarterbacks, in the first couple of weeks of the 2015 season, can attest to the perils of the game. In a league in which a dominant quarterback can often mean the difference between making a run for the title or missing the play-offs, it has been a rough start in 2015.

The late comedian George Carlin (Google him, kids) per-formed a 1970s sketch in which he compared the ruggedness of football to the comparatively tame game of baseball. “Foot-ball is played on a gridiron,” growled Carlin before switch-ing to a sing-song, high-pitched voice and saying “baseball is

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wrecked his knee in the Eski-mos’ opening game and will re-portedly miss at least 10 games. Winnipeg’s Drew Willy’s hel-met may have saved him from permanent brain damage after he got seriously drilled in the head in Winnipeg’s second game. He miraculously recovered, howev-er, and missed only half a game. Perennial all-star Ricky Ray of Toronto started the season on the injury list and will miss a mini-mum of six games.

Still standing are injury-prone Travis Lulay of the B.C. Lions, Bo Levi Mitchell of defending Grey Cup champion Calgary, Hamilton’s Zach Collaros and Ottawa Redblacks’ veteran Hen-ry Burris. Still, the hurt list is longer than the healthy list and there are still four months to go before the Grey Cup game.

So who will win the Grey Cup? In this season of quarter-back attrition, it could be the last team with its QB still standing.

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Wendy’s Floorball Bran-don has approximately 180 athletes and several divisions: novice, atom, peewee and bardown (bantam/midget mix). The sport uses short sticks to shoot and pass a plastic precision-type ball.

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friends,” Lamb said. “Just overall, it’s a great sport to get involved in.”

Floorball is a floor hockey-like sport that has pro leagues in Finland and Sweden. Four years ago, Wendy’s Floorball Brandon got started in Brandon. Each season, organizer Dan Landry has seen the league grow – and be-lieves it’s a great sport to try.

“Simply put, anyone can play,” Landry said. “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a floorball stick in your life; within five minutes of the first game, you’ll realize that everyone is out there for the same reason – to have fun and have a great workout.”

In its first season, Wendy’s Floorball Brandon had 60 players and two divisions. It now boasts 180 athletes and several divisions: novice, atom, peewee and bardown (bantam/midget mix). Each year, Wendy’s Floorball Brandon puts registration and sponsorship money back into the league in the form of better uniforms and shorts, improved goalie equipment, player benches and more.

Floorball players use short sticks to shoot and pass a plastic precision-type ball. The ball has 1,516 small dim-ples and 26 holes to reduce air restriction and friction on the floor. Floorballs have been said to reach speeds up to 200 kilometres per hour. Goalies don’t use sticks and use limited equipment, which is sanitized after every game.

The Brandon league plays 50-minute games with sub-stitutions (all participants receive equal playing time).

“The sport requires you to be very mobile, going back and forth very quickly,” floorball player Clark Nachtigall said. “It helps with your foot speed, which is a key aspect in every other sport. Floorball also helps improve your stamina. There are not a ton of players on each team so you get a lot of playing time in each game. That’s a lot of running. All that running around boosts your stamina and helps out with any other sport.”

Floorball certainly has its connections to hockey. Sev-eral NHLers with European roots have played the game, including New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who is a floorball forward, and Vancouver Canucks Dan-iel and Henrik Sedin. However, Landry said that the top floorball players are not necessarily hockey players. He says one of the top floorball players is 10-year-old Mason Lobreau. A goalie in hockey, Lobreau is a floorball for-ward who Landry says is a “magician with a stick on the floorball court.”

Players have found that floorball is not only fun but it also can help them in other sports.

“I think it has helped me with hockey and baseball,” said Mitchell Battersby, now in his fourth season of floor-

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Wendy’s Floorball Brandon holds its games at the Nurses Residence Gym across the street from the Cancer Care Building. Landry says the venue and the people run-ning it have treated the league well. Also supporting the league are sponsors such as Wendy’s, Investors Group, Source for Sports, J&G, Smitty’s and Netset Communica-tions. Players play about nine weeks and the registration fee is $100. Landry says that rate would be higher without the generosity of the sponsors.

Volunteers also play a key role as the league starts tak-ing registrations around Christmas. Landry says a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to put on the growing league.

“I’m very thankful that this year I had three young men who have been involved in the program since Day 1 to volunteer, ref and coach,” Landry said. “Jaymes Knee, Bubba Kondratiew and Noah Bursey have been all ter-rific help this year.”

Their work has certainly paid off with the league and the sport is gaining more players and exposure. Landry often hears players say, “Can we do this more than once a week?”

Mosquito monitoring continues

Mosquito counts in the City of Brandon have in-creased slightly in the past month but not to the point where officials are making plans to fog the area.

Counts at five trap sites throughout the community had an average reading of 136 on July 11 and 88 on July 12 putting the totals at a level 10 or medium range. By comparison, the same traps had an average reading of 208 and 52 on June 13 and 14 respective-

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“While trap counts at a few individual locations have increased, we contin-ue to dodge any significant mosquito infestations,” Al-lison Collins, director of communications for the City of Brandon, said in a press release last week.

Traps are set up at five separate locations around the city and are monitored

throughout the season in a joint effort between Bran-don University and City of Brandon Community Ser-vices. Data is collected at the Parks Office, Canada Crescent, Brandon Univer-sity Gym, Civic Services Complex, and the Munici-pal Cemetery covering a 264-square kilometer area.

“The City of Brandon has been utilizing a mosquito abatement program for many decades to aid in the control of nuisance mosqui-tos during the height of the summer season,” states the City of Brandon website. “The control of mosquitoes

is important because it re-duces the nuisance effect of mosquitoes on the residents of Brandon and, reduces the possibility of mosqui-toes serving as vectors for diseases such as Western Equine Encephalitis and West Nile Virus.”

“The program relies largely on larval control methods, with standing pools of water closely mon-itored and then treated with larvicide based on an aver-age of samples in a particu-lar area of standing water,” reads the site.

According to acting di-rector of community servic-

es Esther Bryan, there are a number of factors contrib-uting to the lower number this year. Less moisture this year compared to last year has decreased the breeding grounds for mosquitoes. In addition, she credits citi-zens for doing their part in reducing the number of in-sects.

“Citizens are more con-scious of what they can do to help,” she said.

By eliminating standing water on their own prop-erty, they reduce the sites where mosquitos can lay larvae.

“It takes such a small amount of water and such a short time for them to re-produce so every water col-lector you empty helps.”

Bryan also noted that council approved the hiring of additional staff to work on the larvae program this

year which has had positive benefits.

“It means we have more boots on the ground apply-ing the product,” she said, referring to larvicide used on standing water. “Manual labour is required to put it onto the surface of the wa-ter so it can essentially suf-focate the larvae.”

With the level 10 read-ing, the city has just en-tered the medium range which includes levels 10 thru 14. Should the levels increase significantly, offi-cials move to an ultra low volume adult mosquito control (fogging) program to combat the problem.

“We’re just barely past the low range now and are not near the level when we would fog,” Bryan con-cluded.

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This year’s Brandon Folk Festival is go-ing to be one to remember. With acts such as Digging Roots and this year’s Polaris Prize winner Tanya Tagaq as the headlin-ers, festival goers need to acknowledge the hard work of one of the individuals that brought such an amazing lineup to Brandon this year.

Shandra MacNeill is the artistic direc-tor of the Brandon Folk Festival, and it’s her job to make sure things run smoothly during the festival and, most importantly, booking the talent that will make their mark on this year’s show.

MacNeill herself is a Brandonite who has travelled all across Canada and has lived as far as Whitehorse and as close as Winnipeg. With an art show in 2003 at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, MacNeill was brought back to Brandon and has since taken on a bigger role with the Folk Festival. Her high school years were spent in Brandon and it was when Jennifer Howard (Current MLA for Fort Rouge) asked her to volunteer for the Folk Festival that started her journey with the yearly outdoor show, which has grown in size over the last few years.

With a love of music, MacNeill looks forward to the festival every year. Her work starts early as she looks for new tal-ent and old favorites to bring back. She of-ten looks for acts through the local Winni-peg music scene, the growing music scene in Brandon as well as the grass roots art-ists that are defining the Canadian music industry today. A lot of the time, MacNeill often finds herself on the long but some-times short trip from Winnipeg to Bran-don, and it’s on these trips that MacNeill

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This year’s lineup has been praised throughout Manitoba and MacNeill has even heard good things from folks from as far as British Columbia on the lineup she has put together.

“I look forward to the festival every year,” she told the Journal. “It’s the local artists that get to showcase their talents, the unexpected moments that happen – the ones you’re not prepared for.”

The big fish that MacNeill has been trying to book would be this year’s Fri-day closer called, “A Tribe Called Red.” Working on the pow-wow step band for the last four years, MacNeill is excited to bring DJ NDN, 2coolman, and Bear Wit-ness to Brandon as they’ve been touring non-stop for the last few years.

“It’s really the magical moments of the festival that I look forward to each year and I just really hope the weather behaves and that everyone has a great time.”

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