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A co-ed three-on-three bubble soccer tournament took place late last month at the Christian Heritage School in Brandon.

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Event focused on helping Brandon residents better

understand cultural diversity

A film screening and panel discussion is coming to Brandon in an effort to help raise awareness about the cultural and linguistic diversity of people living in the Westman area.

The event, which is put on by Passages Canada, His-torica Canada and Brandon University, will take place on Thursday, Sept. 17 as part of BU’s orientation week.

Jill Paterson, senior project manager at Historica Cana-da, says the film screening and panel discussion is part of a series of national panel events across the country.

“I think in larger centres like Toronto or Montreal, there’s often a large immigrant population that can pro-vide support and maybe provide a sense of home for new Canadians,” she told the Journal. “However, smaller places might not have that kind of a network so it’s even more important for community members to sort of hear each other’s stories and build those kind of communica-tion bridges.”

The film “Amreeka” is written and directed by Cherien Dabis and is about an immigrant experience, which Pat-erson says, makes us all think about those we care about who have had the courage to come to a new country and make a home for themselves.

“I think the story is sort of lighthearted and heartwarm-ing,” she added. “It’s a really accessible way to bring up some complicated issues around how you integrate into a new country and the challenges that you’ll face and sort of finding a way for us all to understand what new Cana-dians go through.”

A panel discussion follows the film and will include lo-cal speakers who will share personal stories and provide thought-provoking discussion about the changing land-scape in Brandon.

“I understand that Brandon’s international students are just growing and growing,” Paterson said. “It’s definitely a changing demographic for the city.”

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Speakers include Segun Olude of Passages Canada who is part of a network of speakers who travel to dif-ferent schools in Canada to talk about their experiences.

“He’s just a really engaging, really thoughtful speaker, so we’re really excited to have him,” Paterson said.

Other speakers include BU international student Iris Wang and the GM of Brandon University Students Union Nataly Ore. Meanwhile Brandon Mayor Rick Chrest will also be involved as the moderator for the discussion.

Paterson says events such as these help foster a better understanding through hearing different people’s stories.

“Humans love stories, so anytime anyone hears what

someone has gone through to get to Brandon and they get a better understanding of the hardships that they faced and the potential discrimination and challenges of the im-migration process, it gives you a sense of empathy as to what they’ve gone through,” she added. “It might make people more patient or a little bit more understanding to-wards new people in their community.”

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Dr. Fearon grew up in Toronto and prior to coming to Brandon, was the Dean at G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson Univer-sity.

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You took over the position last August, however you were officially installed as the 15th president of Bran-don University last October. What do you remember about that day and just how special was it for you?

I think there were a number of items that were particular-ly special. I think one part is the recognition of the history of the institution – an institution that dates back to 1899 and before, becoming a university in 1967. Recognizing that a host of individuals from professors, from staff, from former presidents and board of directors as well as the commu-nity at large, that there had been such an incredible history to this university and to this institution and that I have an opportunity to be another individual that was going to be contributing to the future of the institution and being able to recognize and support the heritage of it as well and what it means to the community and to the province and to the country as one of the longstanding post-secondary educa-tional institutions in Canada. In all that context, it was very special.

What’s a regular day like for you as BU prez?I would maybe characterize it as three-fold. I think the

first one – we actually have in our academic plan, we use the language, ‘looking ahead’ – so a portion of the day is really looking ahead. Asking the question: what does the future of Brandon University look like? How can I work with a team here and across the city and across the province in being able to move towards the possibilities that are be-fore us? Looking ahead not only one year or so but actually five years, 15 years. There’s a portion of my time that’s spent with individuals which is planning over that kind of time frame, that horizon. Looking at the population growth of the city, of the region and of the province and saying, ‘what kind of institutional capacity do we need to meet the demands of the community and contribute to business de-velopment. That component to looking ahead is a part of the day. A second part of the day is the regular administra-tive and academic covenants of the institution. There are a lot of decision that need to be made – what faculty to hire, what programs to offer, those kinds of just day-to-day decisions. Another portion of the day is what I call connect-ing – connecting with students, connecting with faculty and

staff, connecting with a community and connecting with the partners of stakeholders. So when you sum that all up, it really lends for an incredibly busy day.

Going from the Big Smoke to the Wheat City… was it a big adjustment for you?

Interestingly enough, the answer is no. Part of it may not be widely known but I actually have two art cultural de-grees so my first two degrees were art cultural from the University of Guelph. I also worked with the ministry of agriculture for many years in Ontario and I was the execu-tive assistant to two deputy ministers for art culture there. I worked on a farm as well. My phD is from Western, so I lived in London, Ont. When I was in Guelph, the popula-tion I believe was around 75,000. So in that regard, being here with 50,000, I’m quite comfortable.

When you took over the role last year, you were quoted in various interviews, saying “Brandon is at a transition point right now.” What did you mean by that comment?

What I meant by that is that, at one level, post second-ary education across Canada, is I don’t really want to say changing, but it’s subject to a number of forces. Fundamen-tally, post secondary institutions have an obligation to soci-ety at large, in terms of insuring that citizens of the society have the best knowledge and capability to be active and affective citizens in building a nation and building com-munities. The second one is an obligation in terms of pro-viding the foundation to individuals in the community and across the country so that they can pursue their aspirations – whether it’s life aspirations or career aspirations – as well as build towards prosperity for themselves and their fami-lies in their communities. That pressure I believe is always there on post secondary institutions and in many regards, Brandon University has been a university that has a set of programming aimed at serving the local community, but at the same time, we’re one of less than 100 universities in Canada, so in that sense, we’re one of just a few universi-ties in the province. So we’re at a crossroads in making sure that we not only see ourselves at serving the local commu-nity in Brandon and southwestern Manitoba, but we also

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Journal Q & A with Gervan FearonDr. Gervan Fearon took over as the president of Brandon University approximately a year ago, officially being installed with the title last October. A husband and father of five, Fearon, who was born in Birmingham, England, spent a few minutes recently with Journal editor Lanny Stewart to discuss his tenure at BU and what lies ahead for the university.

have to see ourselves in terms of our role in post secondary education for the whole province. It’s about making sure that we’re active participants in fostering growth and pros-perity for the community at large. I think, in many regards, that sense of engagement was there before, but it’s about making that a stronger priority and a stronger emphasis.

How was your summer? Did you take any holidays? My summer was fantastic. Not only was it a beautiful

summer, I did also take some vacation time. My wife Kathy and I got on the train in Portage and went north. We got all the way up to Churchill. It was our opportunity to see Mani-toba. We wanted to see it by train. It was a 1,700-kilometre trip. It was a really beautiful way of seeing the province and that’s how we spent our holidays.

September is here, which means it’s time for BU stu-dents to hit the books once again. Looking forward to another academic year at BU?

For us, September is when the year starts and when ev-erything blossoms on campus. We’re already seeing a lot of students who are here and getting here now. Our faculty and staff work during the summer to prepare for the opening in September and it’s really an absolutely exciting time.


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flee the events unfold-ing in Syria. Alexander can argue more refugees would be admitted to Canada if not for admin-istrative impediments in Turkey and the United Nations, but other nations aren’t letting those issues prevent them from saving thousands of lives.

That fact alone gives rise to a number of ques-tions: how many Syrian refugee applications have been rejected by Alex-ander’s department for administrative reasons? How many of those refu-gees have suffered the same fate as the Kurdis? Why is Canada sitting on the sidelines compared to many other nations?

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Just when it appeared the state of the Canadian economy was becoming the focus of the federal election campaign, the photograph of a drowned child has suddenly made compassion a central is-sue.

The image, published in newspapers all over the world and widely dis-tributed through social media, is heartbreaking. A lifeless three-year-old boy lying face-down on a Mediterranean beach, the victim of yet another failed attempt to escape the horrors being experi-enced by millions of Syr-ians.

Reports indicate Alan Kurdi, the child in the photo, was one of 11 refu-gees who drowned when their flimsy boat capsized while trying to cross a five-kilometre strip of water from Bodrum, Tur-key, to the island of Kos, Greece. Alan’s father, Abdullah, survived but his mother and five-year-old brother were also among the victims.

Initial reports indicated the family had tried to immigrate to Canada, but their application was rejected by the federal Citizenship and Immigra-tion department in June. Information released last Thursday, however, indi-cates an application was submitted for the family of the brother of Abdullah

Kurdi, but was rejected because it was incom-plete.

The death of Alan, his mother and brother, and Canada’s alleged connec-tion to the situation, has put a harsh spotlight on the manner in which the Harper government has responded to the Syrian refugee crisis.

More than four million Syrians have fled their na-tion in the past four years. Another seven million are displaced within the country and could soon follow those who left be-fore them. It is a massive humanitarian crisis that is causing a huge strain for European nations, but where is Canada?

On Wednesday, Immi-gration Minister Chris Al-exander said Canada has taken in “approximately 2,500” Syrian refugees so far, and added “the numbers grow quickly through private sponsor-ship and government as-sistance. We also have brought over 20,000 Iraqi refugees.” That is far, far less than European na-tions are accepting. Ger-many alone is prepared to accept 800,000.

The particulars of the Kurdi family’s case have been somewhat clari-fied, but the fact remains a mother and her two young sons, and thou-sands more like them, have died attempting to

singer and activist Bono declared “the world needs more Canada,” do those words still ring true? Does the world need more of a country that, in the opinion of many, has become indifferent to the struggles of those, partic-ularly Muslims, who are desperate to escape war and famine?

Those are tough ques-tions, but they must be asked during this cam-paign. They speak to how we as Canadians perceive ourselves and how we want to be perceived by those beyond our borders.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper argues “refugee

resettlement alone cannot, in any part of the world, solve this problem.” That is always true in these cases, but it is no excuse for inaction, nor for Can-ada failing to shoulder the existing refugee burden with its European allies. More specifically, it is no justification for Canada turning its back on fami-lies whose bodies eventu-ally wash up on Turkish and Italian beaches.

While Harper appears to favour the status quo, NDP Leader Tom Mul-cair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau each insist Canada must do more to assist refugees. It sets

the table for a discussion about Canada’s role and obligations in the world and provides voters with a clear choice.

The deaths of Alan, his brother Galib and his mother Rehan were as foreseeable as they were preventable. Many more will die in the coming months if this nation’s ap-proach to refugees does not change.

Is that the Canada the world needs more of?

Deveryn Ross is a po-litical commentator liv-ing in Brandon.

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Selinger in 2009 during his time as finance min-ister. He went on to say he would only be “imple-menting initiatives that are sustainable within a balanced budget.”

The stimulus happened, but the balanced budget was not sustained.

In the wake of the re-cession, Manitoba had 5.2 per cent unemploy-ment and the provincial GDP declined by 0.9 per cent in 2009. The NDP responded by sending spending skyward with a deficit of $555 million that year.

Rosann Wowchuk be-came finance minister the next year and the tone changed. She committed to stimulating the econo-my “by investing nearly $1.8 billion in infrastruc-ture and capital renew-al.” But she insisted the deficits would be tempo-rary and the government would “restore balance by returning to surplus within five years.”

The NDP ran deficit of $467 million in 2010. The results were mixed. The province’s GDP grew by 2.5 per cent. But unem-ployment went up slight-ly to 5.4 per cent.

In 2012, the NDP intro-duced an innovation: the PST tax hike.

“[The PST increase] will enhance productiv-ity and innovation, and create good jobs in the short term — and the long term,” said new NDP Finance Minister Stan Struthers. “It will allow us to protect key services and deliver a balanced budget by 2016.”

Manitobans certainly paid more PST, but the budget was not balanced. The deficit for 2012 came in at $583 million. But the results were virtually unchanged with unem-ployment at 5.3 per cent and GDP growth at 2.2 per cent.

The numbers remained largely unchanged for 2013 and 2014. And

deficits are projected for years to come.

“Our government also has a long-standing com-mitment to return to a balanced fiscal position,” said NDP Finance Minis-ter Greg Dewar as he an-nounced the 2014 results and outlined his 2015 budget. “Industry tells us not to take our foot off the gas. Cutting now would devastate our economy. Families tell us to protect the jobs and services they rely on. Mr. Speaker, that means we will not make massive cuts to front-line services or put thousands of Manitobans out of work.”

Balanced budgets gave way to temporary deficits that evolved to become an absolute necessity without which apparently “thousands of Manito-bans” would be out of work. And so Manitoba continues to speed further into debt with no realistic repayment plan in sight.

Reporters asked how

Mr. Trudeau would keep his commitments if the economy falters. In other words, would the Liber-als actually balance the budget after three years if the stimulus doesn’t work? Mr. Trudeau’s an-swer: he would be “open and transparent” with Ca-nadians. In other words:

“just watch me.”We have watched this

before. We’ve watched it year after year. It hasn’t worked for Manitoba.

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Longstanding weekly newspaper sold in Neepawa

The Neepawa Press weekly newspaper is now under new ownership.

Glacier Media Group has sold the weekly newspaper to Neepawa residents Ken and Christine Waddell, owners and publishers of the Neepawa Banner, Rivers Banner and myWestman.ca website. The deal closed on Sept. 2.

The Press newspaper will remain in operation, however its circulation numbers in its area will decrease to approximately 3,200 papers weekly. The two papers will have a distinct difference as well, says Waddell.

Day-to-day operations meanwhile will be amalgamated into the Neepawa Banner building, while the Press building will be used by the Waddell family as a business incubator for the community.

The Neepawa Press began operations in 1896. The Neepawa Banner meanwhile, was started by the Waddell family in 1989, and is the largest circulation rural weekly newspaper in western Manitoba.

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Random musings from the keyboardAs of right now, I think

the jostling for the presi-dential nomination for the various parties in the United States is far more entertaining than the fed-eral election in Canada.

We don’t have a Donald Trump, boosting his stock, and lacing into anyone he feels like – i.e. women, Hispanics and journalists.

Donald may sometimes be nuttier than those fruit-cakes that are about to hit the store shelves but he’s a top contender as of this writing. So much so, those who have similar ideals to Trump (that is scary) are coming out and stating they want to be his run-ning mate.

Interesting possibilities for Donald Trump’s vice president…

Hulk Hogan has said he wants to be Trump’s run-ning mate. With Trump’s position on illegal Mexi-can immigrants, the Hulk can station himself at the border where he could fight a few illegals as they try to sneak in from Mexico. Seeing someone get tossed around by a

HUMOURHUMOUR

wrestling vice president could send a message to potential border cross-ers that you could get the ^%% knocked out of you if caught. And by employ-ing some of his WWE co-horts, the taxpayer would be the winner because bil-lions could be saved by not having to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Charlie Sheen has also shown interest in being Trump’s running mate. Sheen has made some pretty absurd comments in his time, much like Trump, so they could be the only two on that cer-tain wave length and un-derstand each other. Also Sheen has consumed a few illegal drugs, and with Mexico being a major source of illegal narcotics, he would at least have the experience of dealing with drugs, although not in the areas of law enforcement.

But hey, when has not hav-ing experience or knowl-edge on an issue stopped the government from ap-pointing someone?

Other people that should be considered as possible running mates for Donald Trump...

Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner – with one running mate, you can cover every gen-der as well as appeal to sports fans (Bruce is an Olympic winner, Caitlyn now has the medals.)

Anyone of the Kar-dashians – they literally do nothing which may qualify them to run for congress or hold a cabinet position if Trump becomes president. A Kardashian would certainly raise the profile, and nothing else, by being vice president.

Anyone of the kids from the TV program “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grad-er?” The only problem with this suggestion is that the kids aren’t old enough to vote and they may be actually smarter than ‘the Donald’.

The American pre-election, better known as

the search for a presiden-tial candidate for the Re-publican and Democratic parties certainly provides us with some ‘WTF’ mo-ments.

There’s the Wisconsin senator who has come out in favour of building a fence along the Canada-U.S. border to keep out il-legal immigrants.

I’d like to go one bet-ter since our friend to the south has brought it up. Why don’t we build something similar to the

Great Wall of China. Sure it could cost hundreds of billions of dollars, shared between the two coun-tries, unless it’s built on one side of the border only – instead of on the bor-der where costs would be shared.

Just think of all the jobs created, material bought to build the wall and taxes paid? It becomes a major tourist attraction as well, keeping the ‘riff raff’ in one country and not al-lowing them into the

other. Lets give the sena-tor, whose name I can’t remember, credit where credit is due.

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Thought for the week: say goodbye to the sum-mer of 2015.

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Although head lice can strike just about anyone anywhere, it seems to proliferate in close quar-ters, like those of a typi-cal classroom. Children who keep backpacks and belongings beside other students’ items may un-wittingly pick up lice and bring them home, where they can infect the child and other members of the family.

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says lice are parasitic in-sects that can be found on people’s heads and bod-ies. Lice feed on human blood. There are three types of lice that live on humans: head louse, body louse and pubic “crab” louse. Only the body louse is known to spread disease.

Lice are wingless para-sites that can only crawl to their host for feeding. They cannot jump or fly like fleas. By and large, lice are relatively harm-less creatures, though they can be a nuisance. Lice bites are known to cause irritation and inflamma-tion on the scalp. Persis-tent scratching may lead to infection. Lice do not signal that a person has bad hygiene, and a child who contracts lice should not be embarrassed. Lice

are a common problem among students.

Lice are small and gray-ish-white in appearance, and they are usually no larger than a sesame seed. They can move fast, so usually lice infestation is identified by spotting the lice eggs, which are called nits. These look like tiny, yellow or tan dots before they hatch. Lice lay nits on the hair shaft close to the scalp. This is the ideal temperature for keeping the eggs warm until they hatch. Many lice nymphs will feed on blood every day to grow into adult lice. However, a louse can survive up to two days off of the scalp. That means a person can “catch” lice from a hat or a piece of clothing if a louse climbed into the material.

Treating head lice

means ridding the head of all nits and adult lice. A special comb is used to capture the tiny eggs. This can be a painstaking process, particularly for children with long hair. Topical insecticides in lo-tion and shampoo are used to kill the lice. However, these products may not penetrate the nits, so the topical solution may need to be applied several days later to kill any emerging lice.

The best way to combat lice is to emphasize pre-vention. Children should not share combs, brushes, scarves, hats, or other clothing. They also should avoid close physical con-tact with someone who has lice.

Should a child get lice, he or she should stay home from school and the

nurse should be notified. Wash all objects that the child has used and launder all clothes, towels, linens, and other items in hot wa-ter to kill any lice. Vacu-um the home frequently to remove lice or fallen hairs with attached nits from upholstered furniture and

rugs. Back to school sea-son reintroduces kids and their parents to lice.

Parents and their kids can take certain preven-tive measures to greatly reduce youngsters’ risks of coming down with lice.

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As with people, barrels and bottles come in all shapes and sizes, vary from region to region and country to country.

In Burgundy, France, Pinot Noir is either fermented and/or aged in 228-litre barrels (the traditional bar-rel of Burgundy). In contrast, Bor-deaux’s standard barrel (referred to as a barrique) is 225 litres. These barrels are used the world-over by producers who have been so inspired by the wines of these famous areas that they wish to mimic these wines by using the same barrels and barrel aging regimen

The back label of a red wine bottle often contains a statement regard-ing whether the wine has been aged or fermented (or both) in a barrel. Which barrel? Size matters. Smaller barrels have a higher wood-to-wine ratio giving a wine aged in smaller barrels more oak aromas and fl avours than wine aged in larger barrels. Wine labels often claim “aged in oak

most common bottle size at 750 millilitres. Large format bottles range in size from the magnum, which contains 1.5 litres of wine (the equivalent of two standard bottles of wine) up to the Nebuchadnezzar, which is a 15 litre bottle, equal to 20 standard bottles (750 millilitres) or the seldom encountered Melchior, an 18 litre bottle (the equivalent of 24 standard bottles).es).

Barrels and bottlesbarrels” or “fermented in barrels” but do not specify the barrel size.

I have noticed that with some Aus-tralian wines, the reverse label claims that the wine has been aged in a hogs-head barrel. The capacity of this partic-ular barrel is 300 litres. Hogsheads are used for a number of different wines until just recently, when its name was seldom mentioned on the label.

A puncheon barrel is made in two sizes, either 200 litres or 300 litres and a barrel known as a pipe ranges from 500-630 litres. Pipes are used for port and cognac production, while the size of barrel depends on the country where the port or cognac is made and whether the wine is to be shipped or matured in barrel.

It is a tradition in England to gift a newborn with a 534 litre barrel of port from the vintage of the child’s birth year. The port is left to age in barrel until the child is of legal drinking age and is consumed at that time.

Bottles come in all shapes and sizes - from cat-shaped and brightly coloured to the bocksbeutel (goat’s bag), a bottle used for Franconian wine from south-east Germany since 1726. Although some shapes and colours are complete-ly random, some refl ect the traditions of a particular country or a specifi c wine-making area. White wines from Alsace, France must be packaged in a tall lean bottle with very gently sloped shoulders and a red wine bottle from Bordeaux is straight-sided with tall shoulders.

Bottle size varies from the 187 mil-lilitre piccolo bottle, to the demi or half bottle at 375 millilitres, to the

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City website made more accessible

Online navigation of Brandon just got easier.

An updated version of the flag-ship website for the City of Bran-don was unveiled at the begin-ning of September and promises to include improved navigation and a focus on accessibility for all citizens.

“While Brandon.ca has had design facelifts in the past, the main navigation structure has remained the same for several years. As our website content grew, it sometimes became chal-lenging for citizens to find what they were looking for,” said Todd Burton, City of Brandon direc-tor of information technology. “We looked at current web de-

sign industry trends, especially in the public sector, and found that a service-centric model fits with our vision. As a result, we now have a website that has been streamlined, simplified, and is accessible for all citizens.”

The new site offers four main menus including “I want”, “Your Community”, “City Services” and “City Hall.” Each tab offers additional drop down menu op-tions that are easy to find and access. An additional four fea-ture tabs will change according to issues that are timely and of interest to citizens. Currently, the options include “Green Cart Program”, “Mosquito Abate-ment Program”, “Road Closures/Detours” and “Landfill Hours.” These are expected to change regularly.

The main page also offers

a message from Mayor Rick Chrest, public notices that will be automatically populated by the city’s open data catalogue at www.opengov.brandon.ca and a rotating video screen that will highlight life in the city.

Burton explained that the search function on the website has also been improved. Visitors to the site will see their search word highlighted in the options given, making it easier to navi-gate through the site and find the information they are looking for.

The website has been de-signed with responsive technol-ogy meaning it will be sized to the device it’s being viewed on. Whether the visitor is accessing the site from a cell phone, por-table device or desktop comput-er, the site will change to fit the screen size and style, making it

easier to navigate.In response to the province’s

Accessibility for Manitobans Act, a number of accessibility features have been incorporated into the site, says Burton.

“We have added an accessibil-ity function to the main screen so we can be front and centre with accessibility throughout the site.”

The accessibility tab, located in the top right corner of each page, offers several options to make the site accessible to all visitors. The built-in screen read-er will dictate the information on the page, a simplify page option removes colours and graphics that can make the page difficult for some users to read and text magnifier and screen mask op-tions allow the page to be viewed more easily.

While a refresh of the site has

been completed every two to three years, this the first com-prehensive re-design of the City of Brandon’s website in several years and was completed by staff within the technology depart-ment during a six-month period.

On average, the site receives 62,000 page hits each month by 20,000 unique visitors in the same time period. That number continues to climb and peaks during situations such as when there are high water alerts in the community.

While the re-engineered site was launched last week, Burton explained that staff will be go-ing through thousands of pages throughout the site, ensuring that all content and attached docu-ments are accessible and easy to navigate by everyone.

Aboriginal youth program a success

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The 2015 Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program (AYMP), offered by the City of Brandon and the Brandon Urban Aboriginal Peoples’ Council, continues to encourage its young participants in reaching for their goals. The program, which launched at the beginning of July, looked to offer training opportunities and provided participants a chance to try on

different department ‘shoes’ throughout areas within the City of Brandon government organization.

The fi rst intake of the program looked to provide eight students between the ages of 16-24 years old with opportunities to acquire training and certifi cation, all while learning about the operational services within departments

of the City of Brandon. The two-month program worked in partnership with several different departments including Brandon Fire and Emergency Services, the Brandon Police Service as well as Parks and Recreation.

The program also includes fi rst aid CPR, learning workshops and much more.

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community partners has made the program a huge success and we wouldn’t have been able to do it alone. We thank everyone in the community for their participation with the AYMP,” said Jason Gobeil, Aboriginal community coordinator with the Brandon Urban Aboriginal Peoples’ Council, in a release.

The program has now moved into its second intake and is

currently working with eight new participants through the months of September and October, offering training and learning about the city’s departmental services.

For more information about the program, you can contact Gobeil at 204-729-2462.

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Hannah Selyn performed at the Summer Lights concert series earlier this summer.

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Selyn proving why she’s an up-and-comer

The Summer Lights con-cert series had a successful showcase this summer, and with its final show, Sierra Noble was brought to West-man to headline the night.

However, there were three musical acts that also shared the stage that night, one of the younger talents to grace the stage was Hannah Selyn.

Strumming a guitar, Se-lyn has a folk-pop style with soulful lyrics to boost and dream-like vocal talent to match. Looking as ex-perienced as someone who has toured a long time, Se-lyn provides the same con-fidence in front of a crowd.

Selyn began her music career at the age of 10 after being heavily involved with figure skating. At that time, Selyn decided to take a year off and try her hand at singing lessons. Since then, she has worked in musical workshops with the Sum-mer Lights series, the vocal choirs at Neelin, and trying her own hand at writing her own music.

When thinking about in-spiration for a song, Selyn uses everyday life circum-stances to provide the inspi-ration for her music.

“Sometimes I can be sit-ting in a car on a road trip, and I’ll grab my phone and have to write it down,” she told the Journal. “Other times, intense moments that

have happened in my life and things with my family will influence what I write.”

Her song, “Song about Love” is one of her earli-est original works that she is most proud of which is an innocent ballad about love with a catchy hook that grabs you within the first few lyrics.

It’s a song that indicates Selyn is that of an old soul.

“It was the first one where I realized, this is a good tune,” she said. “It went from little bunches of lyrics to actual verses, cho-ruses and bridges. I was re-ally happy with it.”

As far as musical influ-ences go, Sarah McLachlan happens to be Selyn’s all-time favorite musical artist.

So much so that Selyn will do an acapella rendition of “In the Arms of an Angel” during some of her perfor-mances that resonates well with the crowd.

When thinking ahead, Se-lyn’s goals for the future are just to keep writing music, perform as much as she can, just share what she loves, and eventually go to school for music.

She hopes to stay in Bran-don and build the local mu-sic scene and says there’s a lot of talent out there that she looks up to.

A big help in her suc-cess to date have been local artists Until Red, with the members of the band help-ing her produce her own music. It was also a mem-

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“Dylan McDonald of Un-til Red asked me to play at the concert and I’d like to thank him personally for the opportunity,” she said.

“Brandon has a pretty great music scene, and in all hon-esty, it would be a shame to leave it.”

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A Case from ‘delivery day’ in Gretna, 1903. Three Case threshing machines are seen here after being unloaded for delivery to farmers. The box car on the right side of the image is lettered for the Great Northern Railway and more than likely the equipment was railed to Gretna on the Great Northern from Case’s U.S. manufacturing plants. Great Northern was a major US rail-way at the time and is now part of the BNSF railway.

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Manitoba Ag Museum looks back: J.I. Case steam engineThe delivery of a number of J.I. Case

steam engines and threshing machines at Gretna, Man., was big news in 1903 war-ranting a photo in the Canadian Thresher-man and Farmer.

The separators are built of wood and sharp eyes will note that the middle sep-arator is equipped with a wind stacker while the separators on either side of the middle separator, are equipped with apron stackers which were simply a slatted chain conveyor. As the chain did not run fast, the straw just dropped off the end of the stack-er. While the stacker could swivel to some degree, the movement was limited. The result was that the threshing machine had to move often in order to get more room to stack straw or the threshing crew had to ‘buck’ or push the straw away with a wooden device pushed by a team of hors-es. This simple machine appears to have been also used, in some cases, to push hay to an overshot hay stacker.

The wind stacker offered several ad-vantages. It blew the straw away from the end of the blower pipe, the pipe could be raised up or dropped down and the blower pipe could swivel almost 180 degrees. On many threshing machines the blower pipe telescoped, extending the distance straw could be blown. So more straw could be piled before the threshing machine equipped with a wind stacker had to move. On the downside the wind stacker required more power to operate it and it was noisy, a serious consideration when horses were around. The horses had to become habitu-ated to the noise. The first few days of a threshing run usually featured run away teams as the horses got used to working around the machinery.

The rear of the center threshing machine is obscured by three men standing there. If they were not there, one could have seen the blower was slung under the machine and was laying on its side. J.I. Case and other manufacturers used this arrange-ment when first installing wind stackers. Later designs featured a blower standing upright on the side of the machine and tin work installed at the back of the machine to direct the straw into the blower as it fell off the straw walkers. The design here had the straw falling directly off the walkers into the blower with no need for tin work to direct the straw. However the drive ar-rangements were more complicated with this type of installation. All the other driv-en shafts on the machine were horizontal while the driven shaft on the underslung blower was vertical. Case solved this problem here by using a set of bevel gears. It would appear Case and other manufac-turers realized that the upright blower was a better design as it simplified the drive ar-rangements.

The four J.I.Case steam engines appear to be Case 25-75 engines. While Case built larger engines, judging from the Case engines in the Museum collection, the 75 was the most popular seller, or at least in Manitoba. As for why, maybe a combina-tion of cost, handiness and a minimal crew size needed. The larger engines were more expensive, heavier, more clumsy and, a very important consideration, would have required a larger thresher to make use of all the power. And a larger thresher was more expensive and meant more men in the crew to efficiently feed the machine with with sheaves.

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This outfit consists of a J.I. Case 25-75 nicknamed “Old Jennie” and a J.I. Case separator. The outfit was purchased at the 1904 Brandon Fair however it was then reclaimed by J.I. Case probably because payments were not being made. The Wil-liamson Brothers of Alexander purchased the outfit on June 26, 1906 for $3,000. The engine’s cost was assessed at $2,000 at this time. Old Jennie and the separa-

tor harvested crops in the Alexander area from 1906 to 1938. It’s estimated that 1,500,000 bushels of grain were threshed by the separator by the end of 1938. The outfit was parked after the harvest of 1938 and in the early 1960s was donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. The out-fit can be seen parked undercover in the Heritage Building.

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Volunteers pack up boxes of school supplies as part of the Tools for Schools program.

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The United Way Tools for Schools pro-gram was a success once again in Brandon as more than 900 students received nec-essary supplies to kick off the 2015-2016 school year.

More than a dozen volunteers packed boxes of supplies – such as pens, pencils, glue sticks and notebooks – last week at the United Way office in Brandon. The plethora of items were either donated by the community or purchased by United Way through fundraising efforts and were later dropped off to local schools.

Milaine Lacerte, a summer student for United Way, says planning began in May, which this year, involved a meeting with local school liaisons.

“We wanted to discuss what was being used and how effective the supplies were for the students. That gave a lot of insight

and we were able to cut down on certain supplies that maybe weren’t as useful and allocate those funds and resources in dif-ferent ways,” she told the Journal.

The program ran the entire month of August with drop-off locations stationed at Walmart, Staples, Christie’s Office Plus and Riverheights Terrace, among others. Manitoba Public Insurance in Brandon was also very helpful, says Lacerte.

“They were such a great supporter of our program. The majority of our volun-teers were from MPI; they also helped us get the trucks for delivery. So really, this program would really not take off if it weren’t for them. They’re a huge help.”

The United Way Tools for Schools pro-gram began in 2005 and that year, approx-imately 100 students received supplies. There are 22 schools in the Brandon and district area that receive supplies through the program.

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A key fundraiser for the Brandon Humane Society is set to take place once again.

The 14th annual Wag-A-Tail Walk-A-Thon is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13 in Brandon. The event is considered the shelter’s biggest fundraiser and over the past few years, has raised approximately $40,000 yearly. A large majority of the funds go to shelter operating costs, says Tracy Munn, shelter manager for the Brandon Humane Society.

This year’s event, which takes place at Kin Park, located at First and Aberdeen, one block south of Richmond Avenue, begins at 9 a.m. and is expected

to wrap up at around 11 a.m. The event will include complimentary Starbucks coffee, homemade cookies and will end with a barbecue with members of the Brandon Wheat Kings.

“It’s all for a good cause,” said Munn. “It’s over by noon. It doesn’t take up anybody’s whole day. It’s rain or shine regardless of the weather.”

She says folks don’t have to have an animal to take part in the walk and that “everyone’s welcome.”

Pledge forms are available at the Brandon Humane Society, Brandon Hills Vet Clinic, A Pet Lover’s Warehouse, Pet Valu, Brandon Animal Clinic and Best West Pet Foods.

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that young families are looking for the setting that allows them not just to scrape by, but the op-portunity to thrive. A lot has changed since even the 1980s – a $15,000 home in 1984 on the mar-ket in 2014 for $169,000. The threshold for new-comers to the rural hous-

ing market has shifted dramatically and with it, the expectations on sal-ary that allow someone to move forward in step with that economy.

In April, real estate website rentseeker.ca published a listing of average housing prices across the country and the salaries needed to be approved for a mortgage. The findings may sur-prise you.

In 2015, the average home price in Manitoba stands at $271,000, re-quiring an income of $59,639 to be able to af-ford your own home. The numbers for rural Mani-toba were higher than even Winnipeg where the average home price is $266,837. Are these numbers reflective of the salaries that we’re offer-

ing our brightest hopes for the future to entice them to stay? If we’re not, can we realistically hope to keep them?

Think about the cul-ture that we have tried to foster to shop local. We push that message out to our residents, recogniz-ing that for each dollar that they spend sees a re-circulation in the commu-nity seven times. Now, let’s apply that same logic and invest in our people, recognizing the value of that investment to create a ripple effect through-out the community to in-crease our tax base, sup-port local programs and facilities as well as en-couraging that resident to shop local. We have the potential to lead from the front.

The Manitoba Agricul-

ture Food and Resource Development (MAFRD) office is a great resource for regional economic analysis and assessment for rural communities. Last year, a survey of one rural community found that only 40 per cent of the population were in the threshold to buy a home, an equal number of resi-dents were surviving on less than $30,000 per year. What do you think the long term forecast looks like for that town?

You get what you pay for. It’s a simple matter of dollars and cents.

We can debate the value of K-12 education, recreation, amenities, the slate of shops and ser-vices available in a rural setting where you know your neighbors and you feel safe to let your kids

exercise their indepen-dence. These are all great considerations for those of us who have chosen the rural lifestyle, but these are only the ‘nice to have’ bonuses behind one basic need – the ability to provide a suitable living for one’s family.

Are we making rural Manitoba financially at-tractive enough to attract the kind of attention we want? The attention we need?

Vern May spent twenty 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.

Knowing what’s what with mortgages can save you moneyWhen you consider buy-

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Start by making sure you are pre-approved for a mortgage, and think about how much of a downpay-ment you can afford.

Consider the choices of a open or closed mortgage, and fixed or variable rate.

If you have any ques-tions about how knowing more about mortgages can save you money, I would be happy to help.

With interest rates so low, you may be thinking of taking the big step into home ownership, ‘mov-ing up’ or even refinanc-ing your existing home. If so, knowing what’s what with mortgages can save you money now and in the future. Here’s a mortgage primer to get you going.

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Don Partrick has been giving back to the commu-nity for many years.

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Partrick showcasing love for community

Giving back to his com-munity has been front and centre for Don Partrick throughout his life. Par-trick worked as a market-ing manager for Shell Can-ada for 40 years, retiring in 1997. With more time on his hands he became involved with the Rotary Club of Brandon and has been an active member ever since.

“I had done a lot of vol-unteering throughout my whole working life,” Par-trick told the Journal. “It’s always been about putting the need first.”

While volunteering is

important in keeping a community thriving, ac-cording to Partrick, it’s import to take on what you can handle.

“I’ve always been of the mindset that when you get into something you either need to do it or say you can’t,” he said.

“The Rotary does a lot of good work. Through the club, I feel like I’m making a contribution,” he added.

Rotary International has a four-way test that is at the heart of the program. Members are encouraged to ask four questions about everything they think, say or do: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better

friendships? Will it be ben-eficial to all concerned?

“If you answer yes to all of these questions, you’ll hit the mark,” Partrick said. “It’s simply good, life values.”

Currently holding the role of director of Club ad-ministration as well as the chair of public relations and communications, he’s quick to explain that the success of the club is due to a team of volunteers working together.

“There are a number of members in various roles who need to be commend-ed on all that they do.”

He explained that the club has done a lot of good work in both the local com-


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munity as well as interna-tionally, focusing on areas of literacy, poverty, health and well-being. As an ex-ample, through Rotary International’s assistance, polio has been eliminated in all but three countries around the world. Youth leadership activities are another important area of focus for the club and of-fer positive experiences for the leaders of tomorrow.

“There are so many good things I can think of that the organization does,” he said with a smile.

Attention avid readersBooks, too numerous

to count, are stacking up for the annual Rotary Fall Book Sale. Held in the spring and fall each year since 2003, the sale marks the 25th edition. The event is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 10 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, Sept. 11 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Satur-day, Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Imperial Ballroom at Victoria Inn.

“I believe we will sur-pass $500,000 in net pro-ceeds during this sale,” said Partrick. “All pro-ceeds from the sale go back into the community.”

During the course of the year, books are collected in drop-off sites through-out the community. Each week, a team of volunteers collect and sort the books

in the storage facility so they can be arranged ac-cording to genre and au-thor during the sale.

“It’s a lot of work for our volunteers. It’s very la-bour-intensive but it’s also our biggest fundraiser,” said Patrick.

“The sale takes place through the generosity of our supporters includ-ing the avid readers in the community who continue to donate their books,” he concluded.

2015 Brandon baseball and softball review

With perseverance and impressive run scoring, the Westman Magic won the under-16 Western Canadian softball championship.

The Brandon-based regional team dropped only one game at westerns in Regina over the August-long week-end. The squad’s victory was one of the highlights of the summer on the local minor diamond scene. Both the Westman Softball Association and Brandon Minor Base-ball have reported successful seasons.

The Magic got off to an inauspicious start at the West-ern Canadian Softball Championship with a 2-1 loss to the Edmonton Warriors.

“After our first game, our bats came to life on offence,” Magic head coach Chad Cobbe said. “We never really looked back after that. As well, we played a lot of ‘error free’ ball on defense. Our pitching was very solid too.”

Overall, the Magic outscored their opponents 56-22 over seven games. After that first loss, the team went 4-0 in the round robin and 2-0 in the playoffs. All players con-tributed to the team’s success. Pitching for the Magic at Westerns were Marissa Crook, Sydney Cobbe and Jas-mine Pipella.

In order to win the championship, the Magic had the daunting task of beating Lakehill three consecutive times. Lakehill entered the final game of the round robin unde-feated. The Magic won 9-4 and then beat Lakehill again, 9-3, in a playoff game. Under the page playoff system, Lakehill earned another shot at the Magic but Westman triumphed 6-1.

Cobbe says that coaching the Magic was a real pleasure this season.

“Great coach group, great parents, and great kids who I hope all learned something and are as excited about play-ing ball again next year.”

Brandon was strongly represented on the U-16 Magic squad. Seven players hailed from the Wheat City, while Cobbe remembers being involved with Magic squads in the past that only had one or two Brandon athletes. This year’s team also included players from Boissevain, Killarney, Baldur, and Neepawa.

In addition to winning Westerns, the Magic won the sil-ver medals at the Manitoba Ladies Softball Super League International tournament in June and at the Stars and Stripes tournament in Lakeville, Minn. in July.

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“Our season was a great success,” president Blake Ste-phens said. “We had a record number of players register for baseball (more than 300), and we hope to continue to grow the sport. We had competitive teams in all divisions, and there was only one night rained out during the whole season.”

The rookie age group was the association’s largest. The under nine age category has more than 120 players.

Brandon Minor Baseball hosted the Mosquito A pro-vincials. The organization also held the Toronto Blue Jays’ Baseball Academy Honda Super Camp in August. This coming November, Brandon will host the Baseball Manitoba AGM.

Coming off a successful season, Brandon Minor Base-ball is seeking people to step forward and join its board. The organization is already looking ahead to next season and is striving to have online registration working for next year. In addition, it hopes to start earlier in the spring

to allow for more time to practice and develop skills, Ste-phens says.

Westman Softball AssociationThe Magic were one of the WSA success stories this

summer.“We had another good year on the field,” president

Kevin McLennan said. “Our numbers were consistent with the last few years.”

The Brandon Heat won the bronze medal in both the U-10B and U-14B provincials. Hamiota beat Neepawa in the U-10C provincial tournament final. Neepawa mean-while placed third at the U-16B provincials.

In off the field news, the new diamonds are taking shape on Parker Boulevard. Two diamonds will be com-pleted at the Ashley Neufeld Softball Complex this year as well as four mini diamonds for younger age groups. Phase two will start next year. The plan is to add two more diamonds and a canteen.

The Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League recently announced Robert Hechler is this year’s recipi-ent of the Jack Forsyth memorial scholarship.

The scholarship is awarded to a player who has played in the league and has demonstrated both hockey ability and academic excellence. Robert has excelled in both of these categories.

Robert played three years for the Brandon AAA Midget Wheat Kings. He was a big part in the team’s success as they reached the league semifinals his first two years and the finals last season. During the 2014-15 season, he scored 27 goals and added 34 assists for 61 points. He also graduated with a 94 per cent average in his final year of high school. He has enrolled next year at the University of British Columbia.

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Canada is properly ex-cited about the play of the Toronto Blue Jays this summer, but in Texas, baseball fans are flabber-gasted at the quick turn-around of the Houston Astros who are — sorry to say this, Jays’ fans — the most surprising team story of the 2015 season.

The ‘Astros’ and ‘los-ing’ went hand in hand for six straight years and as recently as two years ago won a grand total of 51 games in a 162-game season. New general

manager Jeff Luhnow arrived in 2011 and the turnaround began. Ag-ing veterans were traded or released, draft choices were stockpiled, the farm system was built up. Last year, the first dividends started to arrive, as the Astros won 70 games.

This year, the punch-line team from Texas has been in first place in the Amer-ican League West almost since Day 1 and heading into September, main-tained a healthy lead over Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels. It would take a total collapse for

the ‘Stros to miss the playoffs altogether and that’s unlikely to happen, so North Americans tun-ing in to playoff baseball on TV this fall will get to see what all the excite-ment is about in Houston.

For starters, the Astros have a player who fans can’t help but love. Sec-ond baseman Jose Altuve is a midget-sized player with speed, power and a batting stroke that’s like butter. He’s only 5-foot-6 and 165 pounds but he won the AL batting crown last year with a .341 aver-age. His 225 hits led the league (a whopping 25 more than runner-up Mi-chael Brantley of Cleve-land), as did his 56 stolen bases. Opposing man-agers feel that Altuve’s speed will put him into scoring position every time he laces a single, but keeping him off base has been difficult.

Big bangers like George Springer, currently on the disabled list but a 20-HR man in only 78 games last year, Luis Valbeuena, Chris Carter and Evan Gattis have been drilling homers, but the play of rookie shortstop Carlos Correa has been the cher-ry on top of the Houston resurgence. Altuve calls Correa the best player in baseball and although the Houston star may lead the league in exaggeration with statements like that, he’s not that far off. Cor-rea is batting around .280, had 15 homers through late August and used his glove like a vacuum at shortstop.

A solid pitching staff led by all-star game start-er Dallas Keuchel (15-6,

2.28 ERA through Aug. 28) and second-year man Collin McHugh (14-7) has Houston fans think-ing this may finally be the year of the franchise’s first World Series title.

• Josh Sens of SIgolf.com, on Jordan Spieth’s outstanding season in 2015: “As an encore, he could clean sweep his Presidents Cup matches and win ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’”

• Headline at SportsPick-le.com: “RG3 expected to be healthy enough to get hurt Week 1.”

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Seattle Times: “Former Olympic 1,500-me-ter champ Sebastian Coe of England de-feated former 20-foot vaulter Sergey Bubka of Ukraine, 115-92, to become president of IAAF, track & field’s governing body. Moral of the story: It doesn’t pay to run against Coe, even if you are No. 1 in the poles.”

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reports that Bucs rookie QB Jameis Winston has a photographic memo-ry: “Guess it ran out of film the day he forgot to pay for his crab legs and was arrested for shoplifting.”

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deke.com, on reports the Giants’ Eli Man-ning wants to be the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback: “Most people can’t imagine him being the league’s highest-paid Manning.”

• Comedy writer Alan Ray, on a Texas brew-ery marketing its beer in 99-packs: “Or, as Rob Gronkowski likes to call it, Happy Hour.”

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Little League World Series is underway. I’m thinking some of these youths are too old. A player just landed an endorsement with Just for Men hair products.”

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‘Ceramics Settling the Prairies’ latest exhibit at Daly House

Stories of pioneers come in all shapes and sizes. Ce-ramics Settling the Prairies is the latest exhibit at Daly House Museum and will offer a glimpse into the ta-bleware used by Brandon area settlers from 1891 to 1914. Running from Sept. 3 to Jan. 31, the exhibit ex-plores how transport and immigration influenced the ceramics available in the area.

“When a piece of ce-

ramics, such as a teapot, is viewed as an object full of social information reflect-ing on the traditions and history of a community, it can connect us to the past,” said Franchesca Hebert-Spence, exhibition intern at the museum. “In this exhibition, we’re focusing on the first wave of im-migration to our area and how this wave of immigra-tion created a demand for ceramics that local dealers were eager to meet.

Hebert-Spence says the exhibit also explores how

ceramics were the time pe-riods of social media.

“Brandon wanted to ad-vertise itself to immigrants and visitors as an idyllic and bountiful eden, so the city had beautiful images of scenes and buildings printed onto souvenir ce-ramics to attract people to the area.”

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packed with care and held as a place of honour in the home. However, much of the everyday table ware was practical and could withstand constant use. Over time, if money al-lowed, immigrants would order in more delicate ta-ble ware.

Hebert-Spence ex-plained that each exhibit has a story to tell. One example is that of a china mug on display from the Douglas and Doreen Bot-tley Collection. The piece was won by Sam Gilmour (father of the donor) in a foot race in 1881 when Mr. Gilmour was 18.

“The delicate pieces show the importance of decorum during that time period,” she said. “At that time, there were a lot more social niceties such as hav-ing tea, often served in very ornate pieces.”

Eileen Trott, Daly House museum curator, says the exhibition brings together a variety of objects that re-flect the social, economic and ethnic diversity of the first settlers to our area.

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Drive Away Hunger campaign underway

Farm Credit Canada recently kicked off its 11th annual Drive Away Hunger fundraiser in the Wheat City.

Since 2004, the national food drive has raised more than 22 million pounds of food for food banks across Canada. In Brandon, more than 100,000 pounds has been raised annually in recent years.

Jeff Affleck, manager of business development for FCC in Brandon, says more partners have jumped on board in recent years to help make it a success.

“This program has become a community effort and we are super appreciative for the partnerships we’ve developed through it,” he told the Journal.

Barbecues have been set up – one of which al-ready took place last Friday – to help kick off the fundraiser in the area this year. The next BBQ is slated for this Friday, Sept. 11 at the local FCC office. Smokies, snack and a drink will be served with proceeds going towards local food banks.

“It’s a fun atmosphere, people having a good time, hopefully enjoying the weather, and getting a chance to rub elbows with local community lead-ers looking to make a difference,” Affleck added.

He says people can donate non-perishable food items to the Samaritan House as well as the FCC local office. Every year, the local FCC office works with local schools in an effort to raise more food.

“They have been awesome partners of ours and have had a huge impact for the local food bank,” Affleck said. “It will be fun again this year.”

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NOTICE OF TENDER

Sealed tenders, marked as follows will be received by the undersigned at The Manitoba Water Services Board, Imperial Square, 2010 Currie Blvd., Box 22080, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6Y9

September 25, 2015

for the following works:

The supply and installation of approximately 97,400 metres pressure pipeline, 51 service connections and related appurtenances all located in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.

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Best boss contest promotes importance of mental health

Does your boss go above and beyond what is expected? Have you had an experience that makes you stop and think your boss is the best in town? The Brandon Chamber of Commerce and Prai-rie Mountain Health are looking for examples of the best boss in the city.

Open to all private and public sector organiza-tions in the City of Bran-don, the organizations are running a contest in search of the best boss.

A positive work envi-ronment is beneficial to both the business or or-ganization and the people who work there. If your boss helps promote your mental health at work, this is the perfect way to say thank you.

“We hold the contest in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Week,” explained Chamber gen-eral manager Carolynn Cancade.

“We recognize that hav-ing a good work environ-ment is both good for the employees and for pro-ductivity,” she said.

“The contest is a way to recognize employers who create an environment that



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We’re proposing an all-in-one personal identifi cation card — driver’s licence, health card,photo ID and travel document.

Share your views.

Convenient. Private. Secure.

Learn more at oneof our information displays:

In WinnipegPortage PlaceShopping CentreThursday, Sept. 1010 am–6 pm

Polo ParkShopping CentreSaturday, Sept. 129:30 am–6 pm

Kildonan PlaceShopping CentreFriday, Sept. 1810 am–9 pm

St. VitalShopping CentreSaturday, Sept. 199:30 am–6 pm

Outside WinnipegOpaskwayakCree Nation,Otineka MallMonday, Sept. 1410 am–4 pm

Thompson,City Centre MallTuesday, Sept. 159:30 am–3:30 pm

Brandon,Shopper’s MallWednesday, Sept. 1611 am–5 pm

Steinbach,Clearspring CentreThursday, Sept. 1711 am–5 pm

Winkler,Southland MallFriday, Sept. 1811 am–5 pm

Portage laPrairie Mall Monday, Sept. 2111 am–5 pm

Dauphin,Marketplace Mall Tuesday, Sept. 2211 am–5 pm

Visit mpi.mb.ca/consultations to view the discussion paper and complete the online survey,or call 204–985–7000, toll-free 1–800–665–2410or TTY/TDD 204–985–8832 for more information.

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Five days notice required.

HEARING: Hearing: The Public Utilities Board (Board) anticipates holding a public hearing of an application from Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation (MPI) for approval of rates and premiums for compulsory vehicle and driver insurance as of March 1, 2016. The hearing would take place at the Board’s Hearing Room, 4th Floor, 330 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB (commencing at 9:00 a.m.) on October 5, 2015.

RATE IMPACT:The Corporation is requesting approval for Basic Autopac vehicle and drivers licence insurance rates and premiums effective March 1, 2016, which, if approved, will result in no overall change in MPI’s Basic premium revenue (excluding the impact of vehicle upgrades and an increased overall driver and vehicle population).

Actual vehicle and driver premiums would vary depending on claim and driving experience, insurance use, territory and vehicle rate group. Full particulars, including the rate impact and application, can be found on the Manitoba Public Insurance website www.mpi.mb.ca.

PARTICIPATION:Parties wishing to submit a brief or to express comments at the hearing should contact the Board Secretary.

GENERAL INFORMATION:Interested parties should take note that the Board does not have jurisdiction over the MPI lines of business denoted as Extension or SRE, or as to MPI’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing operation.

Reminder Notice Of Public Hearing

Applicant: Manitoba Public Insurance CorporationPersons seeking further information as to MPI’s application, or with respect to the Board’s process, and/or wishing to address the public hearing in French should notify the Board Secretary by September 25, 2015.

As well, interested parties may examine MPI’s application and supporting materials, either at the offices of the Corporation or on its website, or the Board’s office.

The Manitoba Ombudsman has recently issued privacy guidelines for administrative tribunals. The Board is mindful of its obligations under those guidelines. Its decisions in respect of the application being considered will be sensitive to the guidelines. Personal information will not be disclosed unless it is appropriate and necessary to do so. However, the Board advises participants that these proceedings are public and that as a result, personal information protections are reduced.

CONTACT INFORMATION:The Public Utilities Board400-330 Portage AvenueWinnipeg, MB R3C 0C4Website: www.pub.gov.mb.ca

Telephone: 204-945-2638Toll-Free: 1-866-854-3698Email: [email protected]

DATED this 5th day of August 2015

“Original Signed By:”

Darren Christle Secretary and Executive Director The Public Utilities Board

looks out for its employ-ees.”

While the nominations often hold personal ac-counts which are kept confidential, Cancade explained that common themes often are ex-pressed.

“Often a good boss is described as someone who is a good sounding board, who is fair, who really cares about what is going on with their em-ployees,” she said.

Planning fun events, in-centives, rewords or oth-erwise helping employees achieve their full potential are also important char-acteristics of a quality leader. Nominees are de-scribed as people who understand about personal issues and who are won-derful to work with and for.

“Management and bosses play a key role in employment happiness and retention and we want to recognize that connec-tion through this contest,” said Cancade.

The competition is open to all sectors in the com-munity and has been won by a wide variety of busi-nesses and organizations during its 18-year his-tory. Applications are be-ing accepted until Friday,

Sept. 25 with an engraved plaque and a coffee party at the winner’s workplace held in conjunction with

Mental Health Awareness Week Oct. 4-10. For more information or to make a submission, contact Bran-

don Chamber of Com-merce at 204-571-5340 or [email protected] or Mental Health Pro-

motion Clinic at 204-578-2450 or [email protected].

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Healthy Living and Se-niors and Manitoba Public Insurance, could eventu-ally eliminate the paper Manitoba Health card by placing an individual’s Personal Health I.D. No. (PHIN) on the security en-hanced, tamper-free PIC.

“Families access the health services they need through their PHINs so moving them onto secure, durable cards has many

potential benefits,” said health minister Sharon Blady in a release. “How-ever, we also recognize that this proposal may af-fect different Manitobans in different ways so we need to hear from those who access and provide health services in our province before we choose a path forward.”

In addition to seeking in-put from individual mem-

bers of the public, con-sultation will take place with numerous groups that may have unique perspec-tives on this proposal, in-cluding First Nations and Metis organizations and communities, Manitobans with disabilities, seniors, vulnerable Manitobans, health care providers and the Manitoba Ombuds-man.

“The ultimate goal of the PIC is to better protect Manitobans against identi-ty theft, forgery and fraud while ensuring that private information stays confi-dential,” said Manitoba Public Insurance president and CEO Dan Guimond.

“Another key benefit is that the proposal would make it easier for low in-

come and homeless Mani-tobans to gain free access to proper identification.”

For Manitobans who drive, the new all-in-one PIC would offer a com-bined driver’s licence, photo ID, health and travel card. Meanwhile, for non-drivers, the new all-in-one PIC would offer a com-bined photo ID, health and travel card.

“Maintaining access to health services and ensur-ing confidential health in-formation remains private will be a central focus as we continue to explore this concept,” said Blady.

“Consulting with the public prior to proceed-ing with an initiative is an important part of our mandate,” said Guimond.

“We hope Manitobans will take the time to share their views as we move through this process so that we can fully address any issues that are identified.”

Manitobans are invited to review a discussion pa-per on the topic and com-plete an online survey by visiting mpi.mb.ca/con-sultations.

A Manitoba Public In-surance representative will also be available to discuss the concept at the Brandon Shopper’s Mall on Sept. 16 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In addition to being available online at mpi.mb.ca, the discussion pa-per can be obtained by calling 204-985-7000, and toll-free 1-800-665-2410. Manitobans can also provide written comments on the personal identifica-tion card by email to [email protected] or by regular post.

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