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Violinist Donald McLean (left) performing at last year’s Brandon Folk, Music and Art Festival. Right: folks dancing and enjoying the music.

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Lineup set for annual Brandon Folk,Music and Art Festival

There’s a comma af-ter ‘Folk’ and it’s placed there for a reason.

The 31st annual Bran-don Folk, Music and Art Festival is slated to take place in July and Shandra MacNeill, artistic direc-tor of the event, says the festival shouldn’t be la-beled as a ‘folk festival’ but rather an event for any music lover.

“If you want to dance for five hours, we’re go-ing to have something for everybody,” MacNeill told the Journal. “Even in the first year (the event took place), the set up of the whole event was 40 minutes of blues, 40 minutes of classical, 40 minutes of jazz. It was a really broad spectrum of music that was being pre-sented.

“The term ‘folk’ actual-ly was meant to be inter-preted in a broader way,” she added.

The entertainment line-up for this year’s event, which takes place July 24-26 on the Keystone Centre grounds, includes

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bands such as JUNO award winners A Tribe Called Red, a group of DJs who are producing an interesting sound, says MacNeill.

“They’re not necessar-ily what somebody off the street might consider ‘folk’ music. They’re DJs who are doing some really amazing mixing of first nations rhythms and songs with hip hop. It’s pretty amazing what they’re doing.”

“The visual aspects of their show aim to chal-lenge stereotypes, while inviting one of the best times you could have on a dance floor,” states a festival release issued last Tuesday.

Other acts include hus-band and wife duo Dig-ging Roots and 2014 Po-laris Prize winner Tanya Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer, acappela, song-writer and visual artist. Local talents include Zrada, whose ‘intricate melodies and unyielding grooves’ make for an im-pressive performance as well as modern groove band Red Moon Road.

“I’m really happy with

the lineup this year. I’ve been working on some of these bands for a few years and it finally just kind of lined up. It’s a re-ally stellar lineup,” Mac-Neill said. “What they’re doing is very important and new and they have a ton of integrity. It really reminds me of the 60s

when folk had its revival and it really meant some-thing. I don’t think it has necessarily to do with the sound, but the inten-tion and the heart and the integrity of it. I think that’s why the musical genres have gotten a little bit broader but I think it makes for a more excit-

ing festival.” Last year’s event saw rain which hurt attendance numbers, but if good weather is in the cards this time around, expect somewhere aro-und 3,000 fans to take in the three-day affair.

For more information on the event and for tick-ets, go online to brandon-

folkfestival.ca/tickets.MacNeill says there’s

a limited amount of early bird tickets available and anyone looking for camp-ground passes are encour-aged to purchase passes as early as possible as campground passes were sold out last year.

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When will the ‘super mailbox’ conversion

take place in Brandon?

When will homeowners in Brandon who still receive home mail delivery see their mode of delivery change to ‘super mailboxes’?

Canada Post’s Five Point Action Plan – which is a five-year project which be-gan in 2014 to convert the one-third of Canadians who do receive mail at their door to community mailbox delivery – released a progress report in March, which indicated that Winnipeg and Sel-kirk are among the communities that will undergo the conversion in 2015. Bran-don however, is not on the list for this year and it’s unclear as to when exactly the city will undergo said conversion.

“We have not started announcing any communities for 2016,” Anick Losier, Canada Post spokesperson, told the Jour-nal.

New development areas in the Wheat City have already undergone the transi-tion and it’s worth noting that Brandon has installed a few super mailboxes in areas that had home mail delivery in the past – 24th Street and McDonald Av-enue being one of the various locations – however, all of which were placed solely for safety purposes.

“We approached the city of Brandon to explain the issue and possible safety risk to our delivery personnel,” Losier explained. “We agreed on the risk and community mailboxes were installed.

“This is not related in any way with our Five Point Action Plan,” she added.

Issues regarding the placement of su-per mailboxes have surfaced in other areas of the country. Hamilton, for in-stance, is currently locked in a legal battle with Canada Post over a new city bylaw regulating the installation of com-

munity mailboxes. Meanwhile, in To-ronto, city councillors have raised con-cerns on the impact the change will have on land property and urban design.

Losier says Canada Post does a lot of consultation with each community re-garding the conversion, and is confident that when the conversion in Brandon does take place, a smooth transition will occur.

“We go through all of the feedback we receive from municipalities and resi-dents directly affected into our planning in order to find the best possible loca-tion because it is a No. 1 concern and by working with the municipalities and residents, we’ve changed the location of proposed sites hundreds of times and we find better sites every single time.” she said. “We’re hopeful that we’re going to be able to do that (in Brandon), but at this point, I can’t speculate any further.”

Valerie Bateman, supervisor of op-erations for the Canada Post location in Brandon, says the local mail service has not received any word from head of-fice as to when the conversion will take place.

“I have been given no information as to when that (conversion) will be. Whether it’s next year or two years down the road, I have no information on that yet.”

Canada Post states that as 2015 began, approximately one million households in Canada have either converted from door-to-door delivery to a super mailbox or were informed and were in the process of being converted. There is no change in delivery for folks living in rural areas or those who live in apartment buildings, seniors’ buildings and condominiums who already have mail delivered to cen-tralized boxes in the building lobby.


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investigations were con-ducted, mistakes were identified and numerous recommendations were made. In particular, it was recommended that the officers wear protec-tive vests, receive better training and be issued patrol carbines (a short-barrelled rifle that has a longer, more accurate range than a sidearm or shotgun).

The seriousness of those concerns arose again recently when the RCMP was charged with Canada Labour Code of-fences relating to the force’s equipment, train-ing and supervision in-cidental to the Moncton

Was the outcome the re-sult of good training and a well-executed plan by well-equipped officers, or a matter of luck that could have just as easily gone horribly wrong? That is the question that must be asked in the aftermath of the recent shooting of an RCMP officer outside of Brandon.

At suppertime on May 15, the RCMP were called to a domestic dis-turbance at a home in Kemnay. News reports indicate that two officers initially approached the home, with one officer going to the door while the other remained near the garage on the proper-ty. The officer who went to the door then walked away from the home and returned with a rifle that he was loading by the ga-rage when shots rang out.

“As he was loading it, two gunshots went off — boom, boom — and I was watching him and he just ducked and he ran, ” eye-witness Mitchell Poole told the Brandon Sun.

The RCMP has con-firmed that an officer, identified by family as Cpl. Mark Hume of the RCMP West Traffic Ser-vices in Dauphin, suf-fered gunshot wounds in the incident. He was struck by shotgun pellets in the arm and leg, was

treated at the Brandon Regional Health Centre and has been released. He will make a full recovery.

Shortly after the shots were fired, several RCMP members, as well as two officers from the Brandon Police Service responded to the scene. The standoff ended at approximately 8 p.m., when a man walked from the home with his hands raised. When he would not follow the of-ficers’ orders to get on his knees, he was forced to the ground and hand-cuffed.

Kemnay resident Clay-ton Ewert was arrested and has been charged with eight criminal of-fences, including two counts of attempted mur-der. He is presumed in-nocent of those charges, but he should also be pre-sumed lucky that the of-ficers on the scene exer-cised remarkable restraint in a fluid situation where one of their own had been wounded.

Corporal Hume is just as lucky, as a slight dif-ference in the shooter’s aim could have yielded tragic results. The fact he escaped with minor in-juries is cause for relief, but important questions remain.

After the murders of RCMP members in May-erthorpe and Moncton,

shootings. Were recom-mendations made follow-ing the Mayerthorpe and Moncton murders and implemented before the Kemnay incident? Photos published in the Brandon Sun show all five officers wearing protective vests, but two were armed with just handguns.

Shots were fired from the home, wounding an officer, but none of the of-ficers apparently returned fire. The accused would not obey commands when he left the home, but a tas-er was not used. Why not? Was such restraint consis-

tent with RCMP training? If so, did it put officers at greater risk than neces-sary?

Why was a Dauphin-based officer responding to a call on the outskirts of Brandon? Does this point to manpower shortages in the region? If so, what are the ramifications on re-sponse times and tactical support for more isolated rural locations?

Two Brandon Police Service officers also re-sponded to the scene, but the BPS has a tactical re-sponse unit that is trained and equipped to handle

these situations. Why was it not deployed? Does a protocol exist for such circumstances?

The objective here is not to second-guess deci-sions made by officers in a tense situation, but rath-er to reduce the risk they face in responding to such incidents. The fact the Kemnay standoff ended without a fatality does not diminish the need to ask the appropriate questions.

It’s the next incident that we need to worry about.

COMMENTARYCOMMENTARYShooting of RCMP officer raises questions

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OPINIONOPINIONA little more interest could cost Manitoba a lot

There’s an old joke about power and money. A question is posed to a group of prime ministers: if they’re reincarnated what would they like to be in their next life? After mere moments of discussion, they all agree. They would like to be rein-carnated as bond fund managers. The rea-son: because bond fund managers are the ones with real power.

Right now Manitoba is paying about $842 million to cover this year’s interest payments on the provincial debt.

Here’s some context: The budget for agriculture, food and rural development is $204 million. The budget for infra-structure and transportation is $607 mil-lion. Combine the budgets for farmers and roads and the total is still less than the amount Manitoba pays bankers and bond holders for interest payments each year on debt taken out over the past many decades.

Each Manitoban is on the hook for about $650 to make the province’s annual inter-est payments. For a family of four, that’s

$2,600. That could cover two months of mortgage payments on an average Winni-peg home.

It’s worth considering what will happen if Manitoba’s interest payments go up.

An interest rate increase of 0.25 per cent would drive up Manitoba’s interest payments by about $51 million per year. That’s a little more than the $50 million budgeted for the Children and Youth Op-portunities.

An interest rate increase of 0.5 per cent would drive up Manitoba’s interest pay-ments by about $102 million. That’s a hair less than the combined budgets for Tour-ism, Culture, Heritage, Sport and Con-sumer Protection; as well as, Multicultur-alism and Literacy.

General global economic conditions could push interest rates up. If economies heat up and drive inflation up, central banks are likely to increase interest rates. Even a small increase would be costly.

Manitoba’s financial situation could

also push the province’s interest rates up.Last December, international bond rat-

ing agency Standard and Poor’s had this to say about Manitoba’s finances: “the stable outlook reflects our expectation that Man-itoba’s budgetary results will continue to strengthen and it will remain on track to achieve a balanced budget by fiscal 2016.” We are now in fiscal 2015-16 and a bal-anced budget is looking a long way off. Standard and Poor’s will undoubtedly no-tice.

Moody’s, another international bond rating agency, released a statement this spring that says: “a loss of fiscal disci-pline leading to a continued and sustained increase in debt … and limited potential that Manitoba will return to a balanced budget … could result in a deterioration of its current credit profile.” In other words, Moody’s is worried about Manitoba’s in-creasing debt.

Why is it important to watch Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s? Home owners

with poor credit ratings pay higher inter-est rates to make lenders comfortable with the increased risk the loan will go bad. It’s the same for governments. If bond rating agencies view Manitoba as a higher risk, the province’s interest costs will go up.

Prudent home owners think about what they’ll do if increased interest rates drive up their mortgage payments. Manitoba taxpayers need to think about the same thing. If the province’s interest payments go up, which programs should be cut? Which taxes should go up?

Powerful politicians can do many things. They can make laws and impose taxes. But they cannot force the bond market to lend them cheap money. Manitoba has to get the provincial budget under control. If it doesn’t, bond fund managers will.

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I feel it would be inconsiderate of me to not respond to MP Larry Maguire’s com-ments to set the record straight as he ac-knowledges my letter, which basically spells out my views (Westman Journal, April 30 edition).

In regards to my letter, to me, it’s clear that MP Maguire seized one more op-portunity to advertise his personal role and how the Conservative government

is doing good things for the province of Manitoba. I never have and do not dis-pute any of those presented facts. I mere-ly concluded that what has been saved by the taxpayer, as we have been told, must must also be repaid further down the ‘line’ to other chains of government.

MP Maguire and the Conservative government like to advertise and portray their role of Robin Hood; that’s all well

and good.But are they really doing a noble un-

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HUMOURHUMOURRandom musings from the keyboard

This is a note for all guys and gals who may be carrying a little ‘extra’ around their waist.

It’s time to get into the vernacular of the hip-sters, or whatever they’re called today.

No more shall it be known as the ‘spare tire’, ‘beer gut’, ‘love handles’ or whatever.

Nope. It’s time to give that ‘extra’ something ex-tra special.

After all, you don’t look at a lady and say she’s pregnant. She has a baby bump.

And now there is a ‘mom bod’ and ‘dad bod’. What the heck are those. Don’t all moms and dads have bodies?

Now there is a classi-fication system I guess. If you’re a celeb mom or dad, you can probably afford to pay someone to look after the kids while you spend time at the gym and the health bar. The ordinary folk will

have to work on their ‘bods’ when they can.

Anyway, I digress. Back to that ‘extra’ around the waist.

For most of us, that ‘ex-tra’ represents a lot of life, whether it’s eating and drinking what was both good and bad for you, finishing that ice cream or pizza the kids didn’t want, and in general, just having an extra helping because it tasted so darn good.

And chances are, that the ‘extra’ around the waist is one of the few things that is bought and paid for. (Like to see someone try and repos-

sess that.) So, it’s only fair the spare tire be de-flated and given a new name that brings to mind what it really represents.

Therefore, I nominate the moniker ‘life bump’.

That extra weight rep-resents what life is all about – eating, drinking, sleeping, lack of or not enough exercise and gen-erally going about your daily business.

‘Life bump’ just sounds right, doesn’t it?

When someone says, “Hey Harry, got a spare tire around the waist?” You can reply, “No, I don’t. It’s my life bump.”

“I’ve been working on

it for a long time and I’m not sure if it’s finished yet.”

So next time someone makes a comment about the ‘extra weight’ tell them it’s your ‘life bump’ and if they don’t like it, get outta my life.

What is wrong with the following . . .

Free music. Great mu-sic. Unbelievable prices.

That’s right. If it’s free, why will it cost some-thing?

That was found on the homepage of an internet radio service. Great clas-sic music at no cost but if you want to upgrade to high quality sound, you have to pay a little extra. The audio on most computers is a lot better than those tiny transistor radios some of us had as kids. So who needs an upgrade?

The general consensus seems to be it wouldn’t be

the Victoria Day weekend without at least one day of really crappy weather.

This past holiday week-end proved true. Rain and snow in the forecast. Maybe if we changed the name, the weather might change.

How about making it a ‘Canadian holiday’ in-stead of one named after a Queen of England?

Maybe name it after a famous or infamous Ca-nuck? How about after our national sport? The new long weekend could

be called ‘Whine about the weather day’.

Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper writes about hockey. Russian President Vladimir Putin plays hockey.

Which one would you like to see body checked into the boards?

What is wrong with the oil industry? The long weekend arrived and gas prices weren’t jacked up…

Thought for the week: Sometimes you shouldn’t think, just do it.

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The Travellers’ Day Parade has been a popular event for years.

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Travellers’ Day Parade marks 60th anniversary

For 60 years, the Travellers’ Day Parade has been a tradition in Bran-don and this year is no exception. It’s believed that the parade was originally established in 1955 as a way to celebrate travelling sales-men, but many changes have taken place over the years. Today, the pa-rade marks the final weekend of the Provincial Exhibition held in Bran-don each year.

“We are an independent organiza-tion but we have a great partnership with the fair,” said parade commit-tee president Bill Kehler. Held on Saturday, June 6, at 11 a.m., the pa-rade makes its way through down-town and ends at the gates of the fair as a way of encouraging people to attend the final two days of the lo-cal show.

“It’s a natural progression for people to make their way into the fair following the parade,” Kehler said.

The parade will begin at the cor-ner of 6th Street and Rosser Avenue and will travel down Rosser to 13th Street. It continues on 13th Street to College Avenue and heads up Col-lege to 10th Street where it comes to an end. Each year, the parade at-tracts 60 - 80 entries and lasts be-

tween one and a half to two hours. The parade is made possible by on-going support from local businesses and attracts a large crowd each year.

“It’s a great event to bring the en-tire family out to,” Kehler added. “We try to make it a lot of fun for the kids.”

A number of high school students participate in the parade each year dressed as clowns and hand candy out to the children in attendance. A wide variety of entries come togeth-er to make the parade each year and Kehler said the marching bands are always a highlight.

“We try to get four marching bands each year,” he said. While lo-cal school bands are the top priority, marching bands are getting harder to come by in recent years and the parade committee is often bringing in bands from out of province to add to the event.

Entries in the parade come in all shapes and descriptions running from elaborate floats to organiza-tions on foot.

“We have floats, groups of people walking, antique cars, you name it,” Kehler said.

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Know how to manage hypertension Nearly one in five Canadian adults –

approximately 4.6 million people be-tween the ages of 20 and 79 — have high blood pressure or hypertension. When blood pressure is too high, it puts stress on the body’s entire vascular sys-tem, forcing the heart to work harder, and increasing the risk of death from a variety of causes including heart disease and stroke.

One of the newest recommendations from the Canadian Hypertension So-ciety for physicians in 2015 is that the diagnosis of hypertension should be based on out-of-office measurements. If your blood pressure levels are high in your doctor’s office, he or she will likely confirm your readings using ABPM, a 24-48 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor, and may suggest the use of a home monitor.

Everyone can take steps on their own daily to lower even high-normal blood pressure levels. Adopting the DASH Diet (a low fat diet, rich in produce, grains, and low fat dairy) can potentially lower systolic pressure by eight to 14

mmHg. Limiting alcohol consumption to no more than one drink per day for women and two for men (decline of two to four mmHg), while enjoying regular physical aerobic activity, such as brisk walking for 30 minutes a day (decline of four to nine mmHg). Losing excess weight can result in a potential systolic decline of 2.5-10 mmHg for every 11 pounds lost, and limiting salt intake to no more than a teaspoon daily can result in a potential two to four mmHg decline in systolic pressure.

Your pharmacist can help you select one of the home blood pressure moni-tors recommended by the Canadian Hypertension Society and provide in-struction on appropriate use. Consider the following steps for more accurate and consistent readings with your home blood pressure monitor:

Be consistent – try to measure your blood pressure at consistent times, such as the morning and evening. Use the same arm.

Take your blood pressure between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. and before tak-

ing blood pressure medication. For most people, this is when blood pressure is the highest. If your blood pressure is well-controlled then it will likely be well-controlled at other times.

Plan around eating – take a blood pres-sure reading before you eat, smoke, or use caffeine or alcohol, or wait at least a half hour after you do so.

Go to the bathroom – a full bladder can raise systolic pressure by 10-15mmHg.

Take your blood pressure before ex-ercise – blood pressure may be signifi-cantly different than usual after exercise.

Sit correctly – sit with both feet flat on the floor. Stretch out your arm with palms upward on a table or arm of a chair so that your arm is even with your heart.

Attach the cuff properly – place the cuff on your bare arm. Putting the cuff over clothes can raise systolic pres-sure by up to 40 mmHg. Don’t roll up a sleeve so that it constricts your upper arm.

Remain quiet during the test – talk-ing can raise systolic pressure by 10-15

mmHg.Calm yourself – sit quietly for three to

five minutes before taking a first read-ing. Feet should be flat on the floor, legs uncrossed, and cuff at heart level; those can affect systolic pressure by 2-10 mmHg. Then rest quietly for about one minute and take a second reading, or even repeat the process for a third reading. The first reading will often be higher than subsequent readings.

While not everyone can maintain blood pressure below the ideal 120/80 there are many things your pharmacist can do to help you manage your hyper-tension and understanding the impor-tance of diet and exercise, home moni-toring, and medication management will help you towards achieving your goals.

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Sultry summer days are coming and devilled eggs are a wonderful cold plate addition for nights when the heat from a stove would be torture. Make them in the morn-ing and chill in the fridge.

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Evolution not revolution: When children are seen, not heard“I’d like to help you

son, but you’re too young

to vote.”

The familiar lyric of

Alan Jackson’s “Sum-

mertime Blues” carries a

lot of significance in how

priorities are weighed

at the council table. It’s

an important gap that we

need to address in our

communities.

Through community

recreation programming,

we do create a lot of

structured activities de-

signed to get our young

children active in a social

setting with their peers.

Some of these allow for

parent participation and

other times, moms and

dads wait on the sidelines.

There is an assump-

tion that kids will migrate

into organized sports as

a member of a team and

recreation budgets sup-

port that. But what if our

child, growing out of su-

pervised, structured play

has different interests?

Maybe they’re interested

in art or music? Or maybe

their sport of choice is

more individual in na-

ture? Do we have them

covered?

A lot of decisions are

made at board room

tables by people who

understand balancing

budgets and sustainable

business practices. Board

members may not have a

connection or active in-

volvement with the pro-

grams that they approve,

but will speak with au-

thority about the dollars

allocated for youth on an

annual basis. We need to

change the conversation

to identify what we’re

working on with youth,

not decisions that we’re

making for youth.

Imagine this scenario:

Would you sit down to

budget your personal

finances, and without

consulting your spouse,

simply assign a dollar

amount as well as a year-

at-a-glance schedule of

their recreation and travel

for an entire year? Well, I

suppose you could try but

be prepared for the conse-

quences.

In my own youth, I as-

pired to succeed in an un-

conventional career path

in professional wrestling.

No programs were of-

fered locally that support-

ed that goal. One teacher

did recognize the passion

though, and facilitated a

two-week unit on amateur

wrestling in our Grade 10

gym class – which was as

close as I would get lo-

cally. By age 16, I was

actively pursuing any and

every opportunity to get

out of town where my

career goals could take

flight. I thought I’d never

come back.

Engaging our youth

to support the activi-

ties they’re interested in

and which nurtures their

passion speaks volumes

about their importance to

the community and their

ability to affect positive

change on topics that

matter to them. Allowing

them to get constructively

active, while still experi-

encing a level of autono-

my and independence is

very empowering.

Don’t misunderstand.

Upon their graduation

from high school, we can

still expect our kids want-

ing to explore what’s be-

yond the city limits sign.

We need to support those

hopes and dreams. But

if we’ve done a good

job of creating a feeling

of community for them,

we’ve increased the odds

of enticing them – along

with their wealth of new

experiences and maybe

a young family – back

home where they can in-

fluence even more posi-

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Vern May spent 20 years in the school of ‘hard knocks’ as a tour-ing professional wrestler

across Canada. Now retired from the ring, Vern grapples with the challenges of economic growth and resilience in rural Manitoba, serving as the Economic Devel-opment Officer for the Minnedosa and Area Community Develop-ment Corporation. He aspires to engage his generation to take lead-ership of the steps our communities take next.

Mosquito fogging buffer zone registrations now being acceptedMembers of the public may apply in person or in

writing to have a 90-metre buffer zone applied to their property during mosquito fogging.

By registering for a buffer zone, citizens will have their property and an area of 90 metres on either side of their property in the front street, side street, and rear lane excluded from the City of Brandon nuisance mos-quito fogging program.

Residents are reminded that they must renew their buffer zone registration at the beginning of every sea-son. A resident’s name, address, telephone number and proof of occupancy are all required for a buffer zone application to be accepted. A medical certifi cate is not required to request a nuisance mosquito buffer zone. However, should the province of Manitoba issue the City of Brandon a health order to spray for West Nile virus, all buffer zones will not apply.

The City of Brandon nuisance mosquito buffer zone application form is available for download by visiting www.brandon.ca or can be picked up and returned to the City of Brandon Community Services Complex, lo-cated at 2020 McGregor Avenue. More information on the buffer zone registration process can be obtained by calling the City of Brandon Community Services De-partment at 204-729-2148.

In terms of 2015 mosquito surveillance, City of Bran-don Community Services Department staff have al-ready been larviciding as weather permits over the past few weeks and are reporting plenty of larvae activity and anticipate mosquito populations to emerge in the coming weeks. More information about the mosquito surveillance and control program is available on the City of Brandon website.

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Alzheimer’s Society helps Mary and many others

When forgetful ‘senior moments’ be-came more frequent, Mary knew there was something more serious going on with her husband Bill.

“I noticed little things were happening and that they were memory related,” said Mary, who chose to use a different name to tell her story to the Journal.

Feeling alone in their struggle and not knowing where to turn, Mary and her grown children began researching Al-zheimer’s and dementia, looking for re-sources in the city. Assistance was found through the Mental Help for Seniors pro-gram run through Prairie Regional Health which lead to the Westman Alzheimer So-ciety.

“We got a marvellous case worker and made some great connections,” Mary says of the support provided. During work-shops, information and networking, Mary soon learned that she and her husband were not alone in their experiences.

“Meeting people who are involved in similar situations is very helpful. The groups consist of caregivers of all ages as well as the person with dementia,” she explained.

One of the most helpful experiences Mary had was watching a video on de-mentia from the patient’s perspective.

“It helped me understand what he was going through and the possible behaviours I could expect,” she said.

Through connecting with others, she and her family learned a great deal about Alzheimer’s, dementia and the resources available.

“Everyone is affected differently,” she says, “but through the discussions we’d each have our ‘aha’ moments.”

Through the Alzheimer Society, Mary attends monthly meetings with other care-givers and finds the process very helpful.

“We hear each other’s circumstances, their situations and their reactions,” she said. “There is a lot of information and wonderful support.”

Mary explained that the society pro-vides a great deal of assistance that can be tailored to the client through one-on-one meetings. Telehealth services are also available and are a convenient resource for people in rural areas.

“They keep you well informed and in-vite you to bring in other people such as your children, so they can understand the situation as well,” she said.

“They can explain the technical stuff that can make caring for your loved one easier. It’s important to know the process that’s going on and while things are differ-ent for different people we all have good days and bad days.”

Memory WalkThe Alzheimer Society is hosting a

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Scott Ramsay, the general manager of the Shilo Golf and Country Club, was all smiles when describing the new pro shop, which was un-veiled earlier this year to the public.

The new pro shop is part of an ongoing renovation mas-ter plan by Shilo golf course execs in an effort to upgrade what was used to be a fairly small and outdated store, Ramsay says.

“It’s the ongoing upgrades and renovations of what was in the past the Shilo Curl-ing Club,” Ramsay said. “So we’re kind of just trying to use the space we have avail-able to us as well as we can.”

The new pro shop includes an expansive club selection for purchase as well as ev-erything else you need for a round of golf, such as tees, balls, footwear, gloves and grips.

Meanwhile, the course itself, which opened in the late 1940s, has always been a popular choice for golfers in the area. With its unique environment, sandy soil and wildflowers, the 18 holes that are offered in Shilo are always a hit for golfers of all ages.

“It’s quite unique,” Ram-say said.

He says, for the most part, each hole is different in its own way and are known for being well-groomed. He noted that the 10th and 16th holes are popular spots.

“The 10th is known for its slope in the green and is also aesthetically very pretty,” he said. “The 16th is a showcase Par 3 with an elevated tee to a green down at the bottom. It’s also very aesthetically appealing.”

Another highlight of the course includes the recently renovated 18th green, which Ramsay says, has “added

quite a bit to the the hole.”Like usual, the Shilo course

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Another key event on the calendar is the Westman Dreams For Kids tourna-ment. The annual fundraiser takes place Thursday, July 9.

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Women’s Resource Centre names new executive directorThe Women’s Resource Centre an-

nounced recently that its search for a new executive director was success-fully completed as Brandy Robertson has stepped into the role last month.

Robertson was born and raised in Gilbert Plains and is a graduate of Brandon University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Eng-lish Literature. She then attended the University of New Brunswick for a Masters of Arts degree, focusing on a feminism-based thesis.

Robertson also worked at BU for nine years and has spent a decade volunteering with non-profit organi-zations in Westman.

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“We knew right away that Brandy was going to be a good fit for the Centre,” said Jodi Wyman, chair of the centre’s board of directors. “She’s smart and confident and has very good people skills. She jumped in with both feet and we’re so excited to watch her ideas come to fruition.”

The Women’s Resource Centre is a non-profit organization that pro-vides a wide range of programs and

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The centre has been without an executive director since last May, which has been a real challenge for the organization. Robertson said her first order of business is to reach out to the community.

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Football fans in Brandon are in for a treat thanks to Kelleher Ford and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Bomber mascots Buzz and Boomer are coming to town in support of the Neelin Spartan Football Booster Club on Saturday, May 30. The enthusiastic pair will be on hand from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. under sunny skies at the Neelin football field, located at 1020 Brandon Avenue.

The mascots will be welcoming the public as part of a fundraiser for the club being put on by Kelleher Ford and Ford Canada. The local dealership is brining a selection of Ford vehicles for the public to tryout. For every eligible test drive at the event, Ford Canada will donate $20 up to a maximum of $6,000. Test drives are open to anyone 18 and older with limit of one per household.

“There is no obligation to buy, it’s just a fun event to support the football team,” said Sheri-Lyn Cullen whose husband Rob coaches and whose son Michael currently plays on the team.

“We are very lucky to be able to do this event as each dealership is limited to two events,” she said.

The fundraiser is being put on through the Drive 4 UR School initiative orga-nized by Ford Canada. Funds raised will go toward the purchase of a lawn mower with a ticket price of $5,000 to maintain the football field that was reconstructed last year.

“They got to play one or two games on the new field at the end of last year

and will play the full season there this year,” Sheri-Lynn added.

Anyone taking a test drive at the event will also be entered into a chance to win tickets to a Blue Bombers’ game in Win-nipeg.

“We want to get lots of fans out and show the Blue Bombers that they have support in Brandon too.”

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“Even if people don’t want to do a test drive, we want them to come out and get a picture with Buzz and Boomer and take part in this fun, family event,” Sheri-Lynn said.

Coach Rob said a three-week train-ing camp will be held in June. A team camp is held in South Dakota in July with regular practices and exhibition games starting in late August and the full season starting at the beginning of the school year.

Rob said there really isn’t a predictor as to the number of students joining the team each year but those who do join en-joy the season. He added that the youth league in Brandon does a good job of encouraging new players and promoting the high school league and he welcomes anyone who is interested to inquire about the team.

“Football is a great sport,” Sheri-Lynn said. “It’s a great physical activity for the kids. The team spirit and sense of com-munity that goes with the club makes for a great atmosphere.”


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The Brandon Regional Health Centre Foundation recently announced the donation of $5,000 from the Kiwanis Club of Brandon-Assiniboine in sup-port of the Room for Renewal patient ward renovation campaign. The Kiwanis Club of Brandon-Assiniboine has been a longtime supporter of the BRHC Foundation, donating more than $55,000 to date. In photo left to right: Kiwanis Club secretary Beverley Monk, Kiwanis Club president Rhonda Smith, chair of the BRHC Foundation board of directors Derrick Stewart and Kiwanis Club members Richard McCallum and Hillary Baker.

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A piece called, “They Are All Somebody’s Daughter” by Peter Morin, in col-laboration with Barbara Biin, Debbie Huntinghawk, Colleen Granger andTyanna Bunn.

Photo by Peter Morin

New exhibitions unveiled recently at AGSMThere are some new exhibitions that

have been unveiled recently at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. In the main gallery, “Mammo’wiiang to Make Change” is an exhibition guest cu-rated by Leah Decter and Jaimie Isaac and features works by artists Ayumi Goto, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Adrian Stimson, Michael Farnan, Scott Benesiinabandon, Paul Zacharias, and Peter Morin. This ambitious and timely show, spanning a variety of media from interactive instal-lation, video, sculpture, and photography, addresses the importance of working to-gether to confront the legacy of Canada’s colonial past and present.

Mammo’wiiang is an Anishi-naabemowin word meaning gathering. “Mammo’wiiang to make change” brings together a group of internationally re-nowned Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Canada who work together across cultures, generations, species, histories, geographies, and experience. Evolving from the co-curators’ four-year collaboration, “Mammo’wiiang to make change,” invites the viewers into the ongoing dialogue around the effects of Canada’s colonial history, often asking the audience to directly contribute to the work. For example, Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s piece invokes the practice of wintercount, in which she invites the audience to inter-act with youth in detention from the Paul Dojack Youth Centre; the gallery visitors’ responses will be shared with the youth, who co-wrote the song at the centre of the installation. Peter Morin collaborated with his students during the Brandon Universi-ty’s advanced indigenous art class to con-struct an interactive commemorative piece

that honours the missing and murdered Aboriginal women, inviting the public to participate in activating the installation. Paul Zacharias and Scott Benesiinaaban-dan also invite the gallery visitors to in-teract with their multimedia installation, which examines the effect of Canada’s mining interests on the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala. Other pieces in the exhibi-tion explore collaboration across genera-tions and species, together reflecting the multiplicity of necessary conversations and strategies of building a non-colonial future.

Meanwhile, the community gallery will once again host the annual Our Manitoba Photo Contest, co-organized with the Sun-rise Credit Union and Keywest Photo. The contest was open to all Manitobans and each photographer was able to submit a maximum of three images. The final win-ning entries were voted on by the public, and will appear in the 2016 Sunrise Credit Union calendar.

The exhibitions will remain open until July 4 in the main gallery and June 20 in the community gallery. The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba is located at 710 Rosser Avenue. It can be accessed either from the Town Centre parkade, or from the first floor of the Town Centre Mall through the elevators near the library. Parking in the Town Centre is free for AGSM visitors. Please note the gallery’s hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursday evenings until 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. After hours workshops and tours are available by appointment.

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Brooklyn Maguathi (Paddock), a Grade 3 student from Riverview School in Brandon, was one of the students honoured.

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Riverview student honoured with humanitarian awardCompassion, drive and humility was

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year,” said Paul Olson, president of The

Manitoba Teachers’ Society in a release.

“The YHAs honour the goodness of stu-

dents who choose to work hard in caring

about and for others.”

Among those honoured was Brooklyn

Maguathi (Paddock), a Grade 3 student

from Riverview School in Brandon.

Brooklyn’s first effort to help the Ca-

nadian Cancer Society — at the tender

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Day, and decided to walk 20 km with

her mom and aunt, in the pouring rain,

to raise $1,200 for clean drinking water.

Last year, she started a hugely success-

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Brandon Minor Baseball has 26 teams and approximately 300 players playing the game this season.Photo submitted

Minor baseball registration numbers increase

With increased registration numbers and various events this season, Brandon Minor Baseball is already in the midst of a successful season.

The local youth baseball association has 26 teams this year. There are also almost 300 players – ranging from six-year-olds and up in rookie ball to teenagers in the midget ranks.

“We have had a pretty good increase that can be at-tributed to the hard work of the grassroots committee,” said Brandon Minor Baseball president Blake Ste-phens, who noted the grassroots committee is led by Glen Simard.

Brandon Minor Baseball is pleased to have the Blue Jays Honda Super Camp come to town this year. Slated to be instructors for the event are former Toronto Blue Jay standouts Jesse Barfield, Dennis Boucher, Lloyd Moseby, and Duane Ward. The camp will be held Aug. 12-13 at Andrews Field.

Brandon Minor Baseball has had success getting youngsters involved in the sport – and maintaining their interest – through the rookie ball program. Ste-phens explained that a pitching machine is used and, once players catch onto batting, there are plenty of hits.

“There is action all of the time,” the president said.Stephens believes baseball has a lot to offer its young

players. “You learn a lot about teamwork. The thing I’ve al-

ways said about baseball is that it’s the only team sport that is very individualized. When you are pitching, it is just you. When you are batting, it is just you. The individual aspect can appeal to a lot of kids.”

Brandon Minor Baseball is carrying on with a num-ber of successful initiatives. Friday Night Lights is back for the mosquito age group for another summer. Players get to compete under the lights in evening con-tests in an exciting atmosphere.

“It is pretty cool,” Stephens said. “The kids have a lot of fun.”

In the midget ranks, the Brandon squad is competing again in the Brandon senior AA league. It cuts down on travel for the players. As well, it puts them up against veteran competitors and demonstrates you can keep playing after minor ball.

“The biggest thing is this is a lifelong sport,” Ste-phens said.

There are various senior AA leagues in western Manitoba and the Manitoba Senior Baseball League, a senior AAA loop, features both the Brandon Clover-leafs and the Brandon Marlins. Brandon Minor Base-ball has seen its players go on to the university ranks.

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Brandon’s Clark Whelpton and Dustin Asham played semi-pro baseball in Australia this past winter.

During the season, Brandon Minor Baseball hosts various events. Earlier this spring, it held the Mosquito Monster Mania. This event featured clinics and games for the players. Ten teams, including seven from Bran-don, took part. This summer, Brandon Minor Baseball will be hosting the Mosquito AA provincial tourna-ment.

Brandon Minor Baseball is led this year by what Ste-phens termed as a pretty new executive.

“I am very excited to work with them,” he said. “They are very enthusiastic.”

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Curry-Kerr duo spice up the warriorsThere are two good rea-

sons why the Golden State Warriors might win the National Basketball As-sociation championship this year and the names are easy to confuse: One is Steph Curry; the other is Steve Kerr. If you say the two names quickly, it might sound like one and ‘1’ is where the Warriors want to finish when the NBA Finals are said and done.

For a team that missed the NBA playoffs 14 out of 16 years, it’s hard to believe that a coaching change would be made after the Warriors finally broke through and won 51 games last year. But it happened: Owner Joe Lacob dumped Mark Jack-son and replaced him with Kerr, the former Bull who, in his day, was known as one of basketball’s pur-est shooters. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the best shooter on this War-riors’ team is Curry, who has raised his game to the point that when basketball people talk about the small

group of NBA superstars, they mention King James, Kevin Durant , Curry and perhaps James Harden. The fading Kobe Bryant is no longer in that group.

Can Curry shoot? Is curry a popular spice in India? The 27-year-old knocked in a 62-foot shot — about 15 feet be-yond half-court — in the conference semi-final-clinching game against Memphis, leading Rusty Simmons of the San Fran-cisco Chronicle to tweet: “They’re calling Stephen Curry’s third-quarter-ending three-pointer a 62-footer. Shouldn’t that count for more than three points?”

Golden State compiled

the league’s best record this year, 67-15, with Cur-ry’s Most Valuable Player season one of the reasons why. More credit goes to Kerr, who finished second to Atlanta’s Mike Buden-holzer for coach of the year in his first year out of the broadcast booth.

The Warriors needed six games to eliminate Mem-phis and move into the Western Conference final (for the first time since 1976) against Harden’s Houston Rockets, while Atlanta Hawks, the sur-prise team of the East, are taking on LeBron James and the Cleveland Cava-liers in the East final.

The Kerr-Curry combi-nation has certainly spiced

things up in Oakland, where the Warriors call home (and will until their move back to San Francis-co in two years). With the Bay Area still on a high from the Giants winning the World Series last year, an NBA title for the War-riors would make the area a strong candidate to be proclaimed the pro sports capital of the world.• Greg Cote of the Miami

Herald: “Rehabbing Marlins ace Jose Fer-nandez faced live bat-ters in practice for the first time since his sur-gery, and also became a United States citizen. Fernandez is proof that in America anything is possible, particularly if you can throw 97 mph.”

• Dwight Perry of the Se-attle Times: “A woman in Australia has gone on 136 first dates in 17 months with nary a second date, but not ev-eryone was impressed. ‘Records are made to

be broken,’ huffed Tiger Woods.”

• Headline in the New York Daily News after the NFL ‘Deflategate’ report, which suggested New England’s Tom Brady may not have told the whole truth about his involvement: “Great Balls of Liar!”

• NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, on Brady’s four-game sus-pension: “The NFL says his punishment could be reduced if he commits a real crime.”

• Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien on TNT: “A new report just came out and it reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie defended himself, say-ing, “Hey, both of those games went into over-time.”

• O’Brien again: “The NFL has suspended Tom Brady. They’re going to punish him by

making him stay home in his mansion with his supermodel wife and think about what he did wrong.”

• Janice Hough of left-coastsportsbabe.com: “Apparently Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt drew up a last-second play in a recent playoff game, but LeB-ron James said ‘The play that was drawn up, I scratched. I just told coach, just give me the ball.’ ‘Damn, you can DO that!?’ said Mar-shawn Lynch.”

• NBC’s Seth Meyers, on Mitt Romney’s charity boxing match against Evander Holyfield: “Fi-nally someone can hon-estly say: ‘Mitt, I think you should run.’ ”

• CBS’s David Letter-man, on the unseason-ably warm weather in New York City recently: “Tom Brady was deflat-ing footballs just for the breeze.”

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Provincial Exhibition general manager Ron Kristjansson says the Summer Fair, on average, attracts upwards of 100,000 people each year.

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Whether it’s the midway, entertain-ment or the cotton candy, the Mani-toba Summer Fair is a staple in the Westman area.

The annual event, slated for June 3-7 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, generated approximately 100,000 people in attendance last year and Provincial Exhibition gen-eral manager Ron Kristjansson is hoping for around the same number of folks this time around.

“Weather can be a huge factor in that for us,” he said. “We’re all hop-ing we’ve had our share of poor weather and we’re hopefully going to get into some great weather for the fair.”

Kristjansson says the Summer Fair is a huge event which is full of tradi-tion.

“People have been coming to the fair for years. It’s all about entertain-ment and a good time.”

As in the past, this year’s event of-fers something for everyone, such as entertainment and education shows, fair food and of course, the midway.

“I think I might be too tall to go on some of the rides that I might be interested in,” Kristjansson said with a laugh. “We’ll work with our friends at North American Midway and see

if they can recommend a safe ride for me.”

There are also daily shows by The Brigade FMX, which consists of some of the top FMX riders from around the world.

“Nothing else that can compare to someone jumping a 250 pound mo-torcycle, 75 feet through the air, all while hanging off of the back of it by one hand,” states a Summer Fair re-lease issued last week.

Musical entertainment at the Beer Gardens, including a ‘Battle of the Bands’, a Children’s Stage which includes a Kidzone which will host Edward the Juggler, a Toronto based performer. Meanwhile, Doodles the Clown returns to entertain the mass-es, while Daniel Steep will perform his interactive Agri-Magic show as well.

“All-new for this year’s summer fair is the world-renowned collection of travelling wild animals known as Fangtastic, an educational showcase of ‘predator-prey’ relationships,” states the release. “The show features baboons, jaguars, wolves, bison, tiger cubs, a Lioness and lion cubs, camels and possibly the most ferocious of all, the common house cat.”

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tions friends and they’re going to have lots of displays and entertain-ment there as well,” Kristjansson said.

Kristjansson encourages fairgo-ers to attend a breakfast the Sunday morning of the event at the histori-cal Dome building. A $3 entrance fee and a non-perishable food donation to the Samaritan House will gain you entrance to the breakfast where folks can get a glimpse of the continued restoration of the building.

“The interior walls are installed now and we’re moving forward with the rest of the interior development,” Kristjansson said. “This summer, we’ll be finishing up the last pieces of the exterior. It’s a great project that we’re proud of and people at the fair will get a chance to look at the build-ing and see what it looks like with the new windows inside and what the development looks like moving for-ward from here.”

Advance tickets are available for purchase at Sobey’s locations and the Shoppers Mall in Brandon. Out-side of Brandon, tickets are available at participating Credit Unions. You can also order tickets online at www.manitobasummerfair.com

A free children’s ticket is also available for download on the sum-mer fair website prior to the event getting underway.


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YMCA Spring Run slated to take place on Sunday

Running enthusiasts are lac-ing up to help make activities affordable for youth in the city. Last week, approximately 500 people were already registered for the annual YMCA Spring Run, scheduled for Sunday, May 31 in Princess Park. Pro-ceeds from race registrations and pledges collected by partici-pants go directly to the Strong Kids Campaign.

“Funds from this campaign go toward assisting children and

families participating in youth programs and day camps of-fered by the YMCA,” explained health and fitness director Rhonda Penner.

Through the campaign, chil-dren in the local community gain access to opportunities they could not otherwise afford.

Last year, more than 600 peo-ple participated in the event and organizers are hoping for a simi-lar turnout this year.

Late registrations will be ac-cepted until midnight on May 29 for the full race line up and walking registrations will be ac-cepted until race start times. A

number of different race options are available to accommodate all skill and commitment levels. Timed events will be held for 5 km, 10 km, 15 km and 20 km distances. Participants in these races will be timed and results will be posted. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded to the winners in each of these categories and finishing medals will be presented to everyone crossing the finish line. Fun run/walks of 5 km and 10 km are also being organized and will not be timed. A free one kilo-metre walk will also take place at 10:30 a.m. for anyone inter-

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more in pledges will be entered to win a Garman training watch. Registrations are being accepted online at www.ymcabrandon.ca, in person at the YMCA located at 231 8th Street or by phone at 204-727-5456.

All racers are encouraged to pick up their race kits at the YMCA Friday from 5 - 10 p.m. or Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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