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Legendary broadcaster Lloyd Robertson spent some time for a book signing after his keynote address at the Seniors Summit at the Keystone Centre on Wednesday, March 11. Robertson’s book entitled, “The Kind Of Life It’s Been” is a memoir on his illustrious career.

Journal photo by Lanny Stewart

Robertson speaks at

Seniors Summit

With more than 60 years of broadcasting experience, legendary broadcaster Lloyd Robertson has put forth an impressive resume.

He’s a member of Canada’s Walk of Fame and was also awarded the Order of Canada. He’s also been inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

“I loved what I did and I love what I do,” Robertson told a media scrum in Brandon after his keynote address at the Seniors Summit las week. “I say to young people getting in the industry, don’t get into this business unless you know that it’s your bliss and that it’s what you really want to do. It can be a hard life and very frustrating at times but it can also be very rewarding and you’ll have great fun. So it’s about getting up and doing something you love is the answer.”

A young up and coming reporter who is currently en-rolled at Assiniboine Community College asked Robert-son what it was like covering the tragic death of Princess Diana and how much her passing hit home to Canadians.

“At the beginning, people didn’t believe it that this woman, so ravishing, such an international star, could be wiped out so violently and senselessly and so quickly,” Robertson said. “When we learned about it, we realized that this was going to be a huge story.

He says his daughters were affected by her passing as well as both were in tears when they heard the news.

“All young people related to this woman,” he added. “She wasn’t always popular with the royal family, but they realized that they too had to change, so I think she was a historical figure in that sense and lives today as a historical figure. People today remember her as bringing warmth and radiance to a sometimes hectic world.”

The enlightening hour-long address by Robertson was just a part of the Seniors Summit, which focused on the interests of seniors in the Westman area. During his ad-dress, Robertson provided details on his start in the media industry, as well as certain moments in time that capti-vated him such as covering the Canadian Centennial year

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He also touched on the subject of mental health, an is-sue that touched his life in a personal way. Robertson’s mother had mental health problems and in 1948, she un-derwent a prefrontal lobotomy before passing away many years later.

Robertson says folks are much more sensitive to those that suffer from mental illness nowadays and when it comes to the media covering the subject, he says under-standing the question before it’s asked is important.

“Too often, we’re prepared just to talk about the loonies or the crazies doing this, doing that. It’s almost part of our lexicon. I’d like to see that change to the extent that if the words don’t change, let the ideas and the sensitivities around the words become more prominent in our minds as we’re covering these kinds of stories because they are people too,” he said.

Robertson, 81, also spoke about how important physi-cal activity can be to a senior citizen and that doesn’t mean playing puzzles and board games.

See Robertson on Page 2

Top: Longtime CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson addresses the local media. Bot-tom: Robertson in action, speaking to those in atten-dance at the Se-niors Summit.

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Robertson: ‘I’m just liking this period of my life’

Robertson from Page 1

“It’s fi ne to play Sudoku and Scrabble and all those things and keep your brain active… but nevertheless we do have to keep active. In many ways, physical activity – a 40 minute walk a day – is really all you need to do. You can do the weights, you can do all the other things that people like to do but getting in that basic physical exer-cise every day this is extremely important to everybody.”

Robertson spent 35 years as the anchor of CTV News. He signed off for the last time in 2011 before taking over as co-host of the network’s weekly magazine series “W5” which is a show he remains a part of today.

“When I slowed down after 41 years at 11 o clock at night I decided I didn’t want to stop completely after I had been going so fast on the treadmill for so long,” he said. “I knew that if I stopped, I’d break both legs. So I thought, ‘what would I do?’ I had been doing some W5 long-form reporting in the years I was still doing news, so I’m simply doing more of that now.”

He says he’s really enjoying his current role on the show, saying it gives him the opportunity to dig a little deeper into stories.

“I’m just liking this period of my life.”Robertson says he’s been to the Wheat City several

times during his illustrious career, and over the years, he’s noticed how much the area has grown and changed for the better.

“I know that your demographic is becoming much more of a multi-cultural community like so many other places in Canada,” he said. “There’s a sense of optimism always in the west. I sensed that the fi rst time I started coming here 50-60 years ago.

“It’s really at a peak now,” he concluded. The two-day Seniors Summit, considered the fi rst of its

kind in Brandon, wrapped up last Thursday.

Top: Cory Medd (left), a former Brandonite who is the current owner of Two Guys And A Pizza Place in Lethbridge, and John Catucci, host of the Food Network TV show You Gotta Eat Here. Other pics: A look at the fi lming that was done at the restaurant for the TV show.

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TV show ‘You Gotta Eat Here’ features former Brandonite

The rest of Canada is about to find out what Lethbridge has known for years. Two Guys and A Pizza Place is a restau-rant where “You Gotta Eat Here.”

Cory Medd grew up in Brandon, attended Vin-cent Massey and worked at Kelsey’s Restaurant. His story sounds like the typi-cal story of a local boy who headed west with some buddies after high school. He graduated from college in 2001 with a background in business and marketing and was making a sales pitch to a local pizza owner when his life changed.

The business was going bankrupt and was soon up for grabs – it was an oppor-tunity Medd and his friend jumped at.

“We had barely any money and any knowledge when we started,” Medd admits. That didn’t stop the young entrepreneurs who opened Two Guys and a Pizza Place.

“I’ve worked in the res-taurant businesses since I was 14. I love restaurants.”

A number of changes have taken place in the business over the years in-cluding Medd buying out his partner and moving to a new location.

“Now we’re more than just a delivery business. We have a great dining room that we are promot-ing and we really are a place where you can come to eat.”

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rant nominated Medd and his staff as a spot the show needed to visit. Medd has won numerous awards for his pizza in the past includ-ing Canada’s best pizza in 2008 and 2012. The busi-ness has also been recog-nized by the local Cham-ber of Commerce as the small business of the year in 2013 and the business of the year in 2014. The nominations and accolades got the attention of Food Network staff and the fun began. Lean Eagle Produc-tions built a case for 180 restaurants complete with recipes and photos of po-tential locations to shoot the TV Show. Two Guys

and A Pizza Place was among the 78 chosen by the Network to be featured.

“They came out in mid-July to film and it was un-believable,” Medd added. “John (Catucci) was here and about six other people with lights, cameras, sound equipment, you name it.”

The restaurant closed for two days of filming which lasted 13 hours each day. Day 1 consisted of Medd and Catucci working in the kitchen making every-thing from scratch twice over so different camera angles and dialogue could be filmed.

“The second day was a lot of fun,” he said. “We

got to invite the custom-ers who nominated us, the mayor was here, our friends and family and John went around asking them what they liked about the pizza and the restau-rant.”

Medd said his entire staff was working and he was able to put the focus on them and the great ser-vice they provide. An addi-tional five hours of close-ups of the food itself was then filmed.

The business owner ad-mits that he was nervous

during the filming and laughs as he says he hopes the editors make him look good.

“Being part of the show was a huge highlight of my career,” he added. “I’ve always watched the Food Network. I buy the books and go through them when I’m looking for inspiration. It was really an honour to be part of something and to think that someday, some-one might be looking at a book with my restaurant and recipes featured in it.”

A nine-minute segment

will air on You Gotta Eat Here featuring Two Guys and A Pizza Place this Fri-day March 20 (check your local listings). Medd says a viewing party for friends and family is planned at the restaurant which has already seen an increase in business since the filming.

“Word of mouth got out right after filming and we’ve been busy since,” he said. “It’s been unbeliev-able to be part of this proj-ect and I can’t wait to see the show.”


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ter the defeat of Theresa Oswald in last weekend’s NDP leadership contest, that support could climb even higher in the coming months.

An experienced politi-cian and gifted commu-nicator, Oswald as NDP leader was the Liberals’ most-feared scenario. With her out of the pic-ture, Bokhari will have the advantage of campaigning as the sole female party leader, and a full genera-tion younger than Selinger and Conservative Leader Brian Pallister.

Bokhari’s gender, age and minority status won’t be nearly enough to ensure Liberal success, however. She needs to become more

Stop me if you have heard this one before. A political party in Mani-toba is polling somewhere above 20 per cent and ner-vous supporters are calling for the leader – who they claim is out of touch with Manitobans and prone to dictatorial behaviour – to be replaced so the party will be competitive in the next provincial election.

That probably sounds like the plot to the NDP drama that concluded last weekend with Premier Greg Selinger retaining his job by a razor-thin major-ity, but it’s also the reality for the Manitoba Liberal Party and its rookie leader Rana Bokhari.

Her detractors com-plain that since assuming command of the prov-ince’s third-place party 18 months ago, she hasn’t worked hard enough to fa-miliarize herself with the many serious issues fac-ing the province, and that most Manitobans neither know who she is nor what she stands for.

They argue Bokhari is squandering a golden op-portunity for the party, at a time when many Mani-tobans are seeking a cred-ible alternative to the NDP and Progressive Conser-vatives. With the election

just 13 months away, they want her replaced before those favourable condi-tions vanish.

The emergence of Man-itoba Forward, a group composed of experienced Liberal operatives and public policy experts that is currently attacking the Selinger government in radio ads, should be a con-cern for Bokhari and her supporters. So should the recent launch of a Twit-ter account named New Liberal Leader, which ar-gues “the Manitoba Lib-eral Party has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build something great. We need a leader that is ready now to grab this opportu-nity.”

Those hoping for Bokhari’s removal as party leader are wasting their time. It’s extremely unlikely she will volun-tarily step down before the 2016 election, and there is no mechanism within the party’s constitution that allows for her involuntary removal until after the election. Her critics can gripe on social media, but Bokhari’s going nowhere for the time being.

The irony of the situ-ation is that the Liberal party is polling at its high-est level in years and, af-

knowledgeable and articu-late on the many challeng-es with which the Selinger government is struggling. Indeed, her claim that she offers “balanced and prac-tical solutions Manitobans are looking for” will never be regarded as credible by voters until they are con-fi dent she understands the problems.

Beyond that, Bokhari needs to approach the coming legislative session with far more energy than she has shown since be-coming Liberal leader. She needs to be at the legisla-ture every day, armed with cogent responses to issues as they arise.

She should also take ad-vantage of Liberal MLA

Jon Gerrard’s ability to table private member’s bills, offering innovative legislation that will force the NDP and Tories to ei-ther support the Liberals’ ideas, thereby validating them, or oppose the pro-posals and risk offending certain segments of voters.

One possibility would be the introduction of the same controversial amend-ments to Manitoba’s sex education curriculum as were recently introduced by Ontario’s Liberal gov-ernment. Others could be repealing the payroll tax, a new infrastructure fund-ing scheme for Winnipeg, as well as anti-scab labour protection for unions.

It is a strategy that

would give Liberals a pro-fi le they have not enjoyed in decades and also silence the bulk of Bokhari’s crit-ics. More importantly, it would go a great distance toward convincing Mani-tobans they have a viable third option in the next election.

The opportunity is there for Bokhari, but the unan-swered question is wheth-er she has the determina-tion and intellect to grab it. If she doesn’t, she will face the same challenges Selinger just survived, but the story will likely end far differently.

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OPINIONOPINIONI do care about who might be next, but don’t we all?Following the first ever

national round table on missing and murdered indigenous women, it’s with a heavy heart that I’m writing about this on-going tragedy - a national epidemic of violence that persists to more families each year, prompting a growing number of Ab-original women to ask: Am I next?

According to the RCMP, the tragedy has made about 1,200 vic-tims, on and off reserves, between 1980 and 2012. A stark reality of pov-erty, unemployment and violence can be summa-rized in one disturbing fact: Aboriginal women are five times more likely to be murdered than non-Aboriginal ones.

Action must be taken on several fronts: Justice, support, protection and prevention. It must be championed at the com-munity, municipal, pro-vincial and federal levels.

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calls by premiers for a public inquiry are strong indicators of their com-mitment, the federal gov-ernment has been sending half-hearted signals. It speaks about action, but its so-called plan is noth-ing more than a laundry list of existing piecemeal initiatives - many of them a mere continuation of in-adequate efforts not even specific to Aboriginal women.

More troubling is the Prime Minister and his ministers’ view of this tragedy. They’re not only dismissing calls for a public enquiry, but deny that this is a social phe-nomenon. For them, it’s rather a series of isolat-ed, family-based crimes that are best addressed through police investiga-tions.

This approach is truly disturbing.

Why do they persist in making the issue solely a First Nations one and in believing that the only

valid solutions should fo-cus on changing behav-iors of Aboriginal men on reserves?

Who believes there is no correlation between the crisis and generalized gender and race-based discrimination, continued impoverishment or eco-nomic marginalization?

Rather than focusing on police investigations, shouldn’t we be proactive and do something before people go missing?

If everything is known about the issue, why is it continuing and why are 20 per cent of the cases still unsolved? We need to understand how to bring the perpetrators to justice, provide closure to the families, and protect women from criminals walking free in their com-munities.

In a strongly worded report released recently, the UN expert committee on the elimination of vio-lence against women con-cluded that Canada was

responsible for ‘grave vi-olations’ of human rights due its ‘protracted failure’ to take sufficient action to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls.

As a direct result of this government’s inac-tion, we are now dealing with frustrated Aboriginal communities that feel ig-nored. And, more impor-tantly, we are no closer to ensuring that Aboriginal women are treated the same as any other Ca-nadian woman when it comes to being protected

against violent crimes.Is another one-day

roundtable in 2016 really the solution to this hor-rific tragedy? I hope not.

The government needs to do much more. The conditions for a larger national conversation must be created to send a strong signal to Aborigi-nal women that they’re not “invisible.”

A national inquiry would provide an oppor-tunity for a foundational look at the issue and form the basis for coordinated national action.

Information, educa-tion and action need to go hand-in-hand to prevent this human crisis from persisting.

There is no alterna-tive. Ignoring the calls of experts, organizations and citizens pleading for such conversation is not only disrespectful but indicates not only to Ab-original communities, but to all Canadians that we are indeed indifferent as to ‘who is next.’

Op-ed by Senator Sandra Lovelace Nicholas

Dear Editor:Lester Pearson’s challenge. I would

like to congratulate the House of Lords in London for passing historic legislation which requires the British government to allocate 0.7 per cent of their GDP to Overseas Development Assistance.

Why this is of such interest to Ca-nadians is that was our Prime Min-ister Lester Pearson, who in 1969, challenged the developed countries

to achieve this level of funding to those countries less fortunate than us. Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Luxemburg and now Brit-ain have achieved that target. Unfor-tunately, despite promises by several governments, Canada is still below 0.3 per cent. Perhaps it’s time for us to pass such a law in Ottawa and honour the memory of a great man.

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Random musings from the keyboard

Dear Premier Greg Selinger,

First off, let me say congratulations on your new job, or is it your old job? Does it really matter since you’re still the most powerful politician living in Manitoba?

That leadership race was an almost nail biter or so I’ve been told. Un-fortunately during the vote I had rather mun-dane things to do like laundry and trying to fi nd the missing sock. That sock reminded me of the disappearing MLA who only reappeared after pledging his loyalty to the party leader.

Anyway the reason for this letter is pretty straightforward – not left or right. As I travel through parts of Mani-toba and with spring here, believe it or not, I have noticed something that should be brought to your attention before it grows into one of those issues that will either be dealt

I hope you and your government take this con-cern in the spirit this letter was written.

Thank youA concerned citizen.P.S. In regards to the

leadership race and those who wanted your job, may I suggest you do what other provinces have? That means send-ing your opponents to some far fl ung locale as an envoy for the prov-ince. This not only gets your problem far away but you look like you ‘care’ because your oppo-nents have a job. By the way, if they don’t want to be appointed as an envoy, I’m available.

P.S.S. If you want to mend bridges now that you’re still premier, could you start with the First and 18th Street bridges in Brandon?

Thought for the week: The more things change, the more the stay the same.

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with swiftly or put on the back burner and regurgi-tated during the upcom-ing election.

I would like to know who is going to cut the grass on the side of the highways and make sure the gravel is smooth on the shoulders?

The government spends hundreds of millions building, repairing and repairing the repairs. Yet very little attention seems to be paid to the sides of the roadways.

Tall grass could con-ceal potential accidents. What if a cow were to wander onto a highway after feasting on road-side grass. Think of the cost to MPI for accident claims, the loss of income to whomever owned the cow and potential law-suits…

What if a motorist pulls off the highway onto the shoulder, which is in rough shape to begin with, and gets into a sin-gle vehicle accident?

Prairie Mountain Health is set to host The Resilient Journey next month in Rivers.

The full-day conference, slated to take place Saturday, April 11 at Rivers Collegiate, will include two presenters in Dick O’Brien and Wendy Sutton who will offer advice on personal resiliency and caregiving.

O’Brien is a professional speak-er and a consultant in human rela-tions. He has been a therapist and a trainer for 32 years. O’Brien has held senior management positions in government and business and for the past 30 years, has been assisting corporations, school boards, hospitals and police de-partments with issues of stress, wellness, counselling and leader-ship.

One of his presentations will fo-cus on learning to cope with the surprises of life and work, stay-ing healthy and learning how to bounce back from challenging times in our lives as well as en-couraging individuals to seek op-portunities and see the positive in change, among other topics.

O’Brien will also try to help others on the journey of life such as how do you handle life when it throws you a curve ball? As well as making the most of whatever life sends you, dealing with the inevitable surprises that life may send anyone and discovering how to create balance in your life, re-duce confl ict and refocus on what is important.

Sutton meanwhile, will provide a path for caregivers, a program that supports caregivers with in-formation and access to local re-sources. The goals of her work in eldercare are three-fold: to sup-port caregivers with information, access to resources and strategies to navigate complex health and social services systems, to create a collaborative website of local caregivers and eldercare services and to raise awareness of the im-pact of caregiving in the commu-nity and in the workplace.

Sutton, who is also a runner, a cross-country skier and a grand-mother of three, will talk about caregiving being both a responsi-bility and an opportunity.

She’ll also speak about the es-sential toolkit to caregiving and that as family members age, many require increasing help from fam-ily and friends. Unfortunately, family caregivers often aren’t told where to fi nd or how to access support for their loved one. This session provides a wealth of infor-mation about caregiver resources, navigating health and social ser-vices and available fi nancial as-sistance.

The conference is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Space is limited. To register, call the PMH healthy living toll free line at 1-877-509-7852. Pre-Reg-istration is required by April 1.

The event gets underway at 9 a.m. with registration and is ex-pected to last until 3 p.m.

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Groovy ginger molasses muffi ns

It’s been a while since I’ve baked muffi ns but it isn’t because I don’t think of them.

I love those spongy, fl uffy little cakes so much I often dream ‘in-muffi n’. This means visions of fi nely laced vanilla muf-fi ns, hearty raisin and bran muffi ns and soft, chewy oatmeal chia seed muffi ns dancing across the movie screen of my mind with habitual regu-larity. It’s only an uncom-mon burst of will power that has recently enabled

me to resist the urge to go muffi n crazy. Well, until today that is. It was the ginger that did it. For me, spicy, warm ginger has the power to trans-form ho-hum visions of muffi ns into the raciest fantasies in ‘muffi ndom’. As you may be aware, I can’t resist ginger. It goes in everything: fueling my homemade chai tea addic-tion, amping up my stir fries, hidden beside the driver’s seat in the form of cheque ginger candies. Ginger and I are quite a team. And to answer to your question about will power, I will wholeheart-edly justify these muf-fi ns by saying that as far as muffi ns go, they are relatively healthy. There is no refi ned sugar (un-less you opt for chocolate chips and the chocolate topping) and the whole wheat fl our makes these marvellous muffi ns fi ber-ifi c. Enjoy the sweet heat the ginger brings.

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Skin tags are often harmlessDoctors have long been urging patients

to be aware of changes to their skin, which could be indicative of illness, including skin cancer. When performing self-in-spections, some people may discover skin growths that look unsightly or give them pause. Oftentimes these growths are skin tags.

A skin tag, also known as a fibroepi-thelial polyp or acrochordon, is a small, benign tumor that forms primarily in ar-eas where the skin creases, like the groin, neck and armpit. Skin tags are usually no bigger than a grain of rice. However, skin tags can be larger. According to Medscape Reference, roughly 46 percent of the pop-ulation will experience an acrochordon at some point in their lives. A person may have anywhere from one to more than 100 skin tags, and certain people are more likely to develop skin tags than others.

In many cases skin tags are just harm-less blemishes on the skin. However, some may need to be removed depending on their location or if any irritation is present. Skin tags often scab over and fall off on their own over time, but they also can be removed quite easily.

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for infection is rare. Even though it is a relatively simple procedure, and one that many people take into their own hands, skin tag removal is best left to a doctor, who will numb the area before removing the skin tag. Ligation is a technique where a piece of suturing thread is tied at the base of the tag to staunch circulation and allow the tag to dry up and fall off on its own. Cryotherapy freezes the skin tag. Electri-cal cauterization or surgical removal with a scalpel also can take place.

If a skin tag seems out of the ordinary, grows large or changes shape or appear-ance, this may be a sign of something more dangerous. Consult with a family practitioner or a dermatologist to rule out cancerous skin lesions.

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With just shy of 100,000 square feet of indoor exhi-bition space, the Brandon Home and Leisure Show is sure to have something of interest for everyone who attends.

Dave Melcosky, general manager of the show, says that approximately 150 unique displays will be set up throughout the Key-stone Centre April 10-12.

The show began in 1966 as a car show and later ex-panded to include travel trailers. By the mid-1970s when Melcosky joined the show as an exhibitor, the displays fi lled one room at the complex. Today, the show has grown to fi ll the Keystone Centre with dis-plays showcasing a vast range of products and ser-vices.

“There are a wide vari-ety of home related exhib-its such as vendors offering renovations, appliances, garden tractors, hot tubs, landscaping and win-dows,” Melcosky told the Journal. “Basically, if it’s related to your home, big or small, or is something you’d fi nd in your home you’ll fi nd it at the show.

“We have a number of media related exhibitors with computers, cable TV and cell phone products and services,” he added.

On the leisure side of things, the show offers a wide variety of options in-cluding travel trailers, mo-torcycles, boats, docks and even taxidermy.

Whether you are look-ing to renovate your home, fi nd new products to put in it or sell it and move to a different location, the Home and Leisure Show has something to offer.

“We have even added a modular home company which will be bringing one of their homes to the site,” he said. Attendees are wel-come to tour the full-sized home that will be located at the main entrance to the Keystone Centre.

Organizers are preparing for 11,000 people to attend the event again this year and have a group of high school students trained to act as hosts at the event. Funds raised through their efforts are being put to-ward the Safe Grad event being held at Vincent Massey. In addition, show organizers are working with the Canadian Cancer Society of Manitoba which traditionally does its main

fundraising campaign in April. Visit their booth at the show to support the cause and fi nd out about cancer causing radon gas emissions found in many basements in the area.

Melcosky said the show is a great opportunity for attendees to visit a wide variety of businesses in one location. In addition to the local businesses showcased, there will be displays from businesses in Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. The Home and Leisure Show is the perfect place for people to park their vehicles for free and visit numerous businesses.

“You get to see the lat-est products and services available and take advan-tage of special show pric-ing and discounts,” said Melcosky.

Admission to the show is $8 per person with children 12 and under free when ac-companied by an adult. Your admission ticket gets you into two draws with a total prize value of $5,000.

The Brandon Home and Leisure Show runs Fri-day, April 10 from 1 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 11 from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 12 from noon until 5 p.m. at the Keystone Centre.

Westman residents encouraged to protect themselves from investment fraud

Whether its offshore investment scams, Ponzi schemes or unlocking RRSPs, fraud continues to be a serious issue in West-man.

With March being fraud prevention month, Jason Roy, senior investigator for the Manitoba Securities Commission, spent a few minutes with the Journal to discuss fraud and how you can be better prepared to protect yourself from theft.

He says fraud contin-ues to evolve, whether it’s the ‘time tested and true scams’ out there that have worked for years that he has to deal with on a yearly basis or new schemes that people come up with.

Either way, a scam artist will figure out a way to get your money.

“I’ve been with the Se-curities Commission for 15 years and I think we’re get-ting the public awareness out at an increasing level but the amount of fraud I think is increasing as we go along here,” he said.

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website which can help people before they decide to part with their money. The website explains to you the different types of common scams, case stud-ies, red flags of fraud, facts as well as the enforcement process that takes place when fraud is reported.

He says checking reg-istration on an investment firm or broker is always important prior to parting with funds.

“We hear stories far too often from individuals that have first parted with their money and then decided to do some checking when things seemed to be a little bit strange. By that time, it’s often too late. So it’s al-ways a good idea to check on the person’s background and registration before you get involved.”

He says you’re to always deal with a registered firm or broker and to always check your statements, making sure you under-stand the investment that is being promoted to you.

“The good thing about dealing with a registered broker is because there’s a level of supervision. The

firms have insurance in case there are problems,” Roy said. “So the investor is somewhat protected.

“When you’re dealing with an unregistered firm or an unregistered individ-ual, a lot of it the compa-nies are operating offshore, so there’s no protection. So once you part with your money, it’s gone, likely never to return.”

Roy says had those in-dividuals called the MSC or checked the website, then appropriate action could’ve taken place, sav-ing the individual a lot of money – and in some cas-es, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He says no one should enter into any kind of in-vestment unless they un-derstand it completely.

“If the explanation that you’re given is way over your head, don’t be afraid to ask for an explanation that you can understand that makes sense.”

One of the big problems investigators are having, Roy says, is that many fraud cases go unreported.

“There’s an embarrass-ment level there, so a lot

of people don’t report it. I don’t know the specifics on the number of people who don’t report but I think it’s fairly high.”

Rural areas farmers who own land are usually tar-geted by scammers look-ing to get their hands on any disposable income they might have, Roy says. Cases usually involve a phone call from somebody who is a non-registered firm or individual pitch-ing the farmer on some kind of odd investment that they’ve never heard before.

“These individuals who make these calls are very good at what they do. They’re friendly and con-vincing.”

Roy says some fraud cases don’t end up with a happy ending.

“That’s the unfortunate part of my job is hearing those stories knowing in those cases, those people aren’t going to see their money again. It’s money that they worked hard for and sometimes are going to rely on for their retire-ment,” he concluded.

To learn more about in-

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call the MSC tip line at 1-855-FRAUD-MB to file a complaint or speak with an investigator.

The YWCA recently held its annual Women of Distinction awards ceremony. The following are this year’s winners:

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Excel-lence in Agriculture – Johanne Ross (Minnedosa)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture – Lorraine Mayer (Brandon)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Excel-lence in Education – Research – Dr. Kathryn Hynd-man (Brandon)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Excel-lence in Education – Teaching – Kathleen Nichol (Brandon)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Healthy Living, Wellness and Recreation – Kim Booth (Bran-don)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Leader-ship in Business – Gail Freeman – Campbell (Bran-don)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Lifetime Achievement – Doris Pratt (Griswold)

YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Social Action and Community Service – Kirby Sararas (Brandon)

YWCA Young Women of Distinction Age 16-21 – Erin Knight (Gilbert Plains)

YWCA Young Women of Distinction Age 22-29 – Jillian Dalby (Alexander)

Medication reviews: a value-added serviceto the patient and community

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Shouldn’t the doctor know what’s best for me to take?

These are all common things I hear people say. And although doctors know the significant points about prescribing, there are sometimes small details missed that a pharmacist can identify to help make your medication regimen optimal.

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The bottom line is that the medications you are on now may have been the best medications for you when first prescribed, but may no longer be the best ones for you now. All of this new informa-tion is hard to keep up, so your pharmacist can work closely with your doctor to find the most up-to-date regimen in ensuring you get the most benefit with the least amount of risk.

Second, a review can help determine whether you are taking your medi-cations properly. When-ever we get a new medica-tion, we are always told by the pharmacist how to take it. However, when you start adding more medica-tions, it can be hard to re-member all the details. For example, it can be hard to

remember whether to take a medication with food or on an empty stomach. Some medications cannot be combined with each other. Even medications bought over-the-counter should be reviewed to en-sure you are taking them properly. I once did a med review where the patient was supposed to be taking 81 mg of baby aspirin once a day. But he was taking it twice a day. If I hadn’t in-vestigated, he could have one day experienced an ab-normal bleed.

Thirdly, a review can en-sure that your medications are working optimally and that they are not causing side effects. It’s obvious when a medication is cur-rently not causing an ad-verse event, hoewver the goal of a review is to pre-vent you from having one in the future.

Many side effects show up down the road if your kidney function changes. You gain an acute illness (like the flu), you are di-

agnosed with more medi-cal conditions, or you take medications and/or natural health products that inter-act. As a pharmacist, I like to check the blood-work associated with each medi-cation to be absolutely thorough. An important pa-rameter I’m always look-ing for is the kidney func-tion so that my patients are getting the best dosing based on this. Even when they fill an antibiotic, this helps me determine the best dosing so that adverse events can be prevented as much as possible.

Finally, a review can de-termine whether there are

unnecessary medications or to help you get off of medications. Often times, prescriptions are renewed by the doctor, but he/she may not thoroughly as-sess whether you still need them. Your pharmacist can help with that. For ex-ample, some people don’t need to be on an antide-pressant or sleeping pill forever. In general, an anti-depressant is recommend-ed to be taken for one–two years, and then it can be reduced slowly to see if it’s no longer needed. In addi-tion, your pharmacist can help you start an exercise program or follow nutri-

tional guidelines so that one day you may be able to discontinue your diabetes, cholesterol or blood pres-sure medications.

A lot of meds can be reduced by simply chang-ing your lifestyle, and a pharmacist can be there to guide you. So talk to your pharmacist today and dis-cover the valuable knowl-edge we have to offer. We’re here to make your medication regimen work better for you so that your conditions can be managed optimally.

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With your CRA My Ac-count, you can handle your business taxes online, take care of electronic payments and even do direct deposits.

“If you’ve got internet access, there is a lot of in-formation for people to go and check out if they’re not sure on something,” Grex-ton said. “The problem

is that it’s leaving some people behind that don’t have internet access. Some seniors are very capable on their computers and they do really well. There’s oth-ers that don’t and can’t, so these sources of infor-mation are not so readily available.”

She says thankfully, there’s still a Service Can-ada Centre in Brandon that can help seniors who don’t have internet or aren’t computer trained.

Other changes recently have been the family tax cut where you or your spouse (or common-law) can claim a non-refundable tax credit of up to $2,000 if your child ordinarily lived with you, your spouse or

common-law throughout the year. Meanwhile, you can also claim fees paid in 2014 for the cost of regis-tration or membership for you or your spouse/com-mon-law partner’s child in a prescribed program of physical activity (can claim a maximum of $1,000 per child).

When it comes to young-er folks who leave home and are filing for the first time, it’s important to re-member that college or university students can report their tuition as a de-duction.

“One new thing that’s come along that’s been around for a few years but some people still don’t know about it is the Mani-toba tuition grad credit, which is a rebate on your tuition,” Grexton said. “That’s a very nice deduc-tion for people. If you’ve been a student and you’re claiming your tuition all along and now you gradu-ate, you can use that past tuition and now claim it for credit against your Mani-toba taxes.

“Some provinces have this and some don’t be-cause it’s there to try and encourage our grads to stay and work in the province of Manitoba,” she added.

When it comes to re-funds versus having a bal-ance due, Grexton says that if you don’t have enough tax deducted by your em-ployer, it usually plays a

key part in you having to pay during tax season.

“Or if you’ve got more than one employer because they’re all giving you cred-it for the same basic deduc-tion in the tax tables,” she continued. “When you file your tax return, you only get it once, so if you have more than one employer a year, each employer is taking off their required amount of tax and when you add it together, it’s not enough tax.

“Income is taxed in brackets, so if you have a balance due, it’s prob-ably because you didn’t have enough tax deducted somewhere. Or you’ve got the kind of income where there’s no tax de-ducted from it like self-employment income,” she concluded. The deadline to

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A look at some of new art that is on display at the AGSM.

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Three new exhibitions have opened up at AGSMThree new exhibitions have opened for the spring sea-

son at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.In the Main Gallery, Greg Staats (Mohawk) and Velibor

Božović (b. Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) use photog-raphy to search for traces of history and lost knowledge in the landscape that surrounds them. In the Community Gallery, renowned nature photographer Brian Milne pres-ents a new body of large-scale photographs of Riding Mountain throughout the seasons. The opening reception is free and open to the public and will include a special performance by the Sweet Medicine Singers and a short tour by the artists.

Staats’ exhibition “It dropped down their minds” recon-nects with a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) way of looking at trauma and renewal. He focuses on the words and actions of the traditional condolence ceremony through poignant photographs, video, and installation. His project is a testa-ment to how art can play a healing role in addressing the loss of First Nations languages and knowledge. Earlier parts of this series have shown across Canada, includ-ing at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Staats and Božović were selected to show alongside each other because there are strong parallels between the ways in which they use photography to connect with the layers of knowledge embedded in the landscape. In “Deep in the Woods,” Božović creates stunning black and white

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The exhibitions will remain open until May 9 in the Main Gallery and April 25 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. Park-ing 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. Afterhours workshops and tours are available by appointment. A lunchtime curator’s tour of the exhibitions will take place on Thursday, March 19 at noon. With files from AGSM release

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Four men. Four microphones. No instruments.This is the formula for Cana-da’s celebrated vocal band Cadence. The band will be coming to Souris later this month.

Considered one of Canada’s premiere vocal group, Cadence, based in To-ronto, is a cappella ensemble that’s been wowing audiences across the country and around the world since 1998. Whether performing at sold out jazz clubs and concert halls, at music festivals, for educational outreach, or for corporate functions, the members of Cadence bring an infectious energy and uncanny verve to every song they sing.

The group’s four critically acclaimed studio albums, Cool Yule (2011), Speak Easy (2010), Twenty for One (2005), and Frost Free (2000) have won or been nominated for numerous awards, including three nods from the JUNO Awards and 10 from the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards.

The band is made up of Carl Berger (baritone and bass), Ross Lynde (ten-or), Lucas Marchand (tenor), and Kurt Sampson (bass and vocal percussion). They each bring many years of training and performance experience to create a rich musical event appropriate for all ages.

The event takes place Thursday, March 26 at the Souris and Glenwood Community Hall. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available at Plaza Petals, or by calling Sharon at 204-483-2001 or Kathy at 204-483-2149. Tickets will also be available at the door.

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Garden on Saturday, March 7.

“Mr. Enns comes to us with extensive experience in organizational devel-opment, especially in the management and devel-opment of not-for-profit organizations,” board president Charlie Thom-sen said in a release. “His extensive commu-nications and promotions

experience will benefit the Garden greatly in the coming years.”

Thomsen says Enns has agreed to a one-year term with the International Peace Garden and will take on all CEO respon-sibilities.

“His first priority will be to work closely with the IPG staff in prepara-tion for the upcoming

season,” he added. “How-ever, high on his list of priorities will be a re-view of operations, plans, and strategies; working closely with Board and with staff to develop new approaches and plans that will re-invigorate all as-pects of our operations.”

This appointment will give IPG the opportunity to continue the search for the longer term while as-

suring that the Garden can continue its growth and development in the meantime.

Garry Enns brings a broad range of expertise and experience to this position, including the management of regional campuses for both As-siniboine Community College and Red River College. He also has de-signed, developed, and

delivered employment and training as well as in-novative grant programs for both governments of Manitoba and Canada.

Visit the International Peace Gardens website at: www.peacegarden.com.


Camp Bridges: a place for bereaved kids to heal

It’s considered a safe haven; a place for be-reaved kids to go and grieve. It’s called Camp Bridges.

Prairie Mountain Health along with South-ern Health have once again teamed up to or-ganize the 10th annual camp, slated to take place May 29-31 at Camp Wan-nakumbac in Clear Lake. The three-day camp helps support kids, aged seven to 17, who have suffered the loss of loved ones in their lives.

Heidi Wiebe is a regis-tered nurse and regional director for seniors and palliative care for South-ern Health and is also an organizer of the event, who says the intention of the camp is not to func-tion as a counselling venue or as a type of grief counselling, but is rather a place where “children can be children.”

She says the various ac-tivities, which are called memory activities are guided by the numerous volunteers at the camp and are intended to help honour those that touched the lives of the kids who attend each year.

“We encourage chil-dren to bring a picture of the person they are re-membering who has died and then create a photo frame that honours that person’s memory,” Wiebe told the Journal. “So per-haps there are stickers that speak to activities that the person liked to do, that kind of thing.”

She says children at the camp can also cre-ate memory boxes which help ‘keep the memories’.

“We also encourage children to bring maybe an item of clothing that belonged to the person who had died and we have people who volun-teer their time who will create a pillow for that child out of that item of clothing. This helps them


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maximum of 50 kids who attend the annual camp and that there is no geo-graphical criteria related to attending.

“We have had other ap-plicants from other areas of the province and if we have space, we do accom-modate those children as well,” Wiebe added.

She says it’s important for those involved in the camp to support the kids as best they can, recog-nizing that they’re often overlooked as mourners.

“It’s important for chil-dren to have a place to come together where they realize that they’re not alone,” noted Wiebe.

She says after the camp concludes, an evaluation tool is supplied to the par-ents and guardians and the comments the camp organizers receive back are always very positive.

“Parents and children report that it was good to learn but that they’re not alone in their experiences and that’s very common,” she said.

Camp donations are currently being accepted to cover the cost of the camp. Anyone wishing to make a donation to Camp Bridges, apply or seek more information, can contact Wiebe at 204-388-2038 or via email at [email protected].

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Kiwanis representative Al Nickel recently presented junior curling medals funded by the Kiwanis Club of Brandon. The medals that were presented to the young curlers helped promote the future of the sport of curling.

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Wheat Kings primed and ready for playoffs

The Brandon Wheat Kings have had an out-standing Western Hockey League regular season.

By early March the squad had sewed up its first Eastern Conference title in 19 years. As of this writing, the Wheat Kings were 51-11-4-3 and as of this writing, had the best record overall.

“I think we’ve been pretty consistent. We had a good start to the year, a real good (B.C./Alberta) road trip where we won six of seven and have been able to avoid any real slides where you lose five or six games in a row,” Kelly McCrimmon, Brandon’s owner, general manager, and head coach, told the Journal.

The Wheat Kings bench boss said he feels the team has been able to avoid long losing streaks for a variety of reasons. For one, he said that when you win, you

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become more and more confident. As well, Mc-Crimmon emphasized, the team has received contributions from up and down the lineup.

“I think we have good depth. We have a lot of good players,” McCrim-mon added. “Different players are contributing on different nights. A lot of players are scoring big goals.”

In addition, he said the Wheat Kings have con-tinued to mature. The club was 34-29-6-3 last

season and finished third in the East Division.

One player whose de-velopment has certainly been observed by onlook-ers is Tim McGauley. He’s the third Wheat King in the last 15 years to rack up 100 points in a season along with for-mer Wheat Kings Mark Stone and Eric Fehr. As of this writing, the 6-foot, 185-pound forward from Wilcox, Sask. had 42 goals and 103 points.

McCrimmon says that McGauley has continued

to improve throughout his WHL career; he fin-ished with 45 points as a 17-year-old and totaled 60 last season.

“He is a guy who plays hard night in and night out,” McCrimmon added. “He doesn’t take games off, doesn’t take shifts off.”

The Wheat Kings have been led this season by captain Peter Quennev-ille. The winger was tied for second on the team with 71 points.

McCrimmon pointed out that Quenneville brings experience as the 2013 Columbus Blue Jackets draft pick had played in the Alberta Ju-nior Hockey League and the United States Hockey League, as well as NCAA Division I hockey, before joining the Wheat Kings

“He is leading by ex-ample. He plays a good two-way game.”

While the Wheat Kings started the campaign with a talented crew, Mc-

Crimmon has been able to add to the team dur-ing the season without affecting chemistry. The club traded for Regina Pats standout forward Morgan Klimchuk and defenceman Reid Gow from Spokane. Gow, who is from Killarney, was Spokane’s captain last season, but started this hockey season with the University of Mani-toba. McCrimmon said both additions helped the team’s leadership, noting that Klimchuk has been a solid two-way player, while Gow has helped solidify the Wheat Kings’ defence.

Klimchuk was tied with Quenneville with 71 points, while forwards Rihards Bukarts, Jayce Hawryluk, Reid Duke, and Nolan Patrick have all chipped in offensively among others, providing depth.

McCrimmon says the Wheat Kings defencemen are a big part of their of-

fensive attack as well. Ivan Provorov leads all Brandon blueliners with 59 points, while Ryan Pi-lon (52 points) and Eric Roy (43) keep opposing teams on their toes.

Meanwhile, Edmon-ton product Jordan Pa-pirny has backstopped the Wheat Kings to suc-cess. The goaltender had a 42-9-4-2 record with five shutouts, 2.79 goals against average, and a .909 save percentage.

McCrimmon says the team continues to keep its focus on the next game and now that spring is coming, it means it’s playoff time.

McCrimmon empha-sized the postseason is when teams need to be playing their best hockey.

“Playoffs are where our focus is and how our team will be judged when it’s all over.”


Mary Thomson of the Brandon Uni-versity Bobcats women’s volleyball team and Frank Jones of the BU men’s volleyball team were recently named the Smitty’s Sportsline Lounge athletes of the month for February.

Mary Thomson’s performance in Feb-ruary was the culmination of one of the most successful seasons as a setter in Bobcat volleyball history. The 5-foot-10 Brandon product guided the Bobcats back to the post-season for a second

straight year, fi nishing with 904 assists this season, which is the second most in the history of the Canada West confer-ence for a single season.

Thomson and the Bobcats fi nished the season with a 13-11 record, losing in the fi rst round of the playoffs to eventual CIS national champions the Trinity Western Spartans.

Meanwhile, Frank Jones concluded his career of university volleyball with one of the best months of his career, capping

what has been one of the best seasons of his career.

A 6-foot-8 middle from Regina, Jones made the jump to the CIS ranks from the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference two years ago, and Bobcat fans have enjoyed watching his play steadily improve since. This season, he led the Canada West con-ference in hitting percentage (.466) and fi nished fourth in blocks per set (1.20), leading the Bobcats in both categories. In February he furthered his season totals

by starting in both of the Bobcats fi nal regular season matches before starting all fi ve post-season matches, helping BU to a bronze medal fi nish at the Canada West Final Four tournament in Edmonton.

Jones set the BU men’s volleyball school record for most blocks in a single season (99) this year, helping the team fi nish with its best regular season record in program history at 19-5 in league play.

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Faster games a goal for MLBBud Selig, the former

commissioner of Major League Baseball, certainly faced major challenges during his 17 years on the job — performance-en-hancing drugs chief among them. But his replacement, Rob Manfred, has a bigger challenge: Save the game by speeding it up.

Baseball drags. Baseball is losing fans. Football, mixed martial arts, soccer . . . all seem to be grabbing the attention of younger Americans while poor old baseball putters along, caught in the slow malaise of a world that has sped up.

While TV viewing num-bers are up and MLB’s rev-enues hit an all-time high last year, Manfred has to deal with the fact that the average age of those who watched the all-star game last year was 53. In 20 years, those 53-year-olds will be slower-moving se-nior citizens watching the slowest of the major sports and the new crop of fans, who dig speed and possess short attention spans, will be directing their sports fo-cus elsewhere.

That’s why Manfred’s No. 1 goal this spring as he gets comfortable as Selig’s replacement is to speed up


the game. Last year’s aver-age game time was three hours and two minutes and Manfred says some moves the owners have recently implemented will most as-suredly bring that average below the three-hour mark. But while a drop from 3:02 to 2:57 is certainly five minutes in the right direc-tion, it’s still too slow, so the deep thinkers who cre-ate baseball’s regulations will be coming up with other methods of speeding up play.

To start with, batters will be required to keep at least one foot in the batter’s box while at the plate. Pitch-ers must be ready to throw as soon as the TV timeout ends. Managers must stay in the dugout while re-questing a challenge.

Those are wise moves. And here’s another sugges-tion, from me: Six consec-

utive foul balls with two out and the batter is retired. No more of those 14-pitch marathons that put fans to sleep. A fouled bunt with two strikes retires the bat-ter, so why not a six-foul-ball rule, too? Too radical? Wasn’t the implementation of the DH radical? Wasn’t challenging umpires’ calls via video replay radical?

If faster games is the answer, then more radi-calism is needed. Six foul balls with two strikes and you’re toast, man. Get those games down to two hours and 30 minutes and baseball fans will crown Manfred the Man.• Steve Simmons of Sun-

media: “According to the statement of claim Eric Lindros has filed in his defamation suit against former referee Paul Stewart, Lindros was made out to be: ‘un-

friendly, hostile, rude, insulting, vindictive, cruel, uncharitable and generally a despicable person.’ Which I’m fig-uring is about five for eight.”

• Dwight Perry of the Se-attle Times: “A mystery tunnel was discovered near the Pan-Am Games site in Toronto. The Ma-ple Leafs’ shortcut to the basement, perhaps?”

• Blogger Bill Littlejohn, after Tennessee released tackle Michael Oher, the inspiration for ‘The Blind Side’: “Michael took the news fine, but Sandra Bullock had to be escorted off Titans property.”

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “Dallas Maver-icks owner Mark Cuban will play the President of the U.S. in ‘Shark-nado 3.’ This will give viewers at least one rea-son to finally root for the sharks.”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on plans to speed up ath-letic competitions: “Ath-letes will take as much time as they are allowed to take. Columbus spent less time planning his first voyage than the av-

erage PGA Tour golfer spends lining up a 15-foot putt.”

• Ostler, on the same sub-ject: “MLB’s goal, ac-cording to stories and headlines, is to ‘lure’ young fans to the game. While that sounds creepy, is there really something wrong with cultivating a fan base of people younger than 50? Just in case the world lasts another 20 years?”

• Greg Cote of the Miami Herald: “There was a WNBA trade: Epiphany Prince for Cappie Pon-dexter. You know how they keep records for everything? This was first sports trade in his-tory involving two play-ers named Epiphany and Cappie.”

• Comedian Argus Ham-ilton, on the latest Alex Rodriguez apology for lying about his PED use: “If Alex Rodri-guez’s word were any more worthless, his por-trait would be displayed on Greek government bonds.”

• Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Her-

ald: “Charles Bark-ley told Sports Illus-trated he played a game slightly inebriated in 1992. Even more amaz-ing: All those things Barkley said on TNT over the years were ut-tered when he was com-pletely sober.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kas-eberg: “This just in: Har-rison Ford crash-lands on a golf course. He is still doing better on a golf course than Tiger Woods.”

• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “The Detroit Lions released Reggie Bush. No word if they have a bird in the hand.”

• Kaseberg again: “Due to winter weather delays, Wrigley Field will be unfinished, incomplete and generally not ready for the baseball season. Just like the Chicago Cubs. “

• Another one from Kas-eberg: “ The Seattle Se-ahawks have reached a deal with running back Marshawn Lynch. And here I was afraid they would pass on it.”

Wheat Kings reach historic 50 win plateauFriday night at West-

man Place was a historic night for the current version of the Brandon Wheat Kings as the team etched their place in club lore by becoming just the fifth team in franchise history to register 50 wins in the regular season.

Kelly McCrimmon’s team not only became the first Wheat Kings roster to reach 50 wins since 2010, they also reached a milestone that has led to expected postseason success as many of Bran-don’s 50 win teams have moved onto the WHL fi-nals after flying past the mark late in the regular season.

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Wheat Kings teams that have reached 50 wins, just one club failed to play in the Memorial Cup as the last 50 win season in Brandon was the year the club hosted the tour-nament where they lost in the championship final to the Taylor Hall and Zack Kassian led Windsor Spitfires in a crushing 9-1 defeat.

Making the 50 win mark is a special one for the club considering the team has had most of its championship banners hung above the rafters at Westman Place after reaching 50 regular sea-son wins.

The 1995-96 season saw the 52 win Wheat

Kings win its second ever WHL title as the Wade Redden led team finished the postseason with a championship win over the Spokane Chiefs. That year, they would lose in the Memorial Cup semifi-nal to hosts Peterborough in a 4-3 heartbreaker.

Rewind the clock to the 1978-79 season, the Wheat Kings wound up setting a franchise record with a staggering 58 wins during the regular season, beating the Portland Win-terhawks 4-1 in the WHL Finals, and in the process, winning the league title. Just as in 1996 and 2010, the Wheat Kings would see their hearts broken by a team from the OHL,

losing in the Memorial Cup final to the Peterbor-ough Petes in overtime. Rob Attwell would break the hearts of Brandon fans with the game win-ning goal in what was 2-1 final.

The only year in which the Wheat Kings reached 50 wins and did not win the WHL title was in the 1976-77 season when a 54 win Brandon team lost to the now defunct New Westminster Bruins in the final. At the time, the Bruins were consid-ered a dynasty as the win over Brandon in the final was their third of four consecutive titles for the British Columbia based franchise which folded

in 1988 before becoming the Tri-City Americans of the WHL’s U.S. Division.

Brandon’s current 50 win team also shares fam-ily history with the record setting team of 1978-79 as Steve Patrick is the fa-ther of star rookie Nolan Patrick. Steve was also a star rookie on that record setting team, scoring 54 points and sharing a his-toric bond with his son who has had an outstand-ing season of his own this year for the Wheat Kings with 26 goals and 49 points in just 52 games.

Now that the Wheat Kings have passed the 50 win plateau, their focus will be on wrapping up the regular season with

the best record in the league as they ended the weekend with the top spot in the standings thanks to the Kelowna Rockets loss to the Kamloops Blazers. Provided that Brandon doesn’t drop a game on the final weekend of the season, the regular season title will be theirs as they hold a two point edge over the Western Con-ference leaders as of the completion of the week-end’s games.

If all goes well, the reg-ular season finale could be one that ends in a cel-ebration.

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BATTERIES FOR EVERYTHING. Automotive, farm, construction, ATV, marine, motorcycle, golf carts, phones, tools, radios, com-puters etc. Reconditioned, obso-lete and hard-to-find batteries. SO-LAR equipment. The Battery Man. Winnipeg. 1.877.775.8271 www.batteryman.ca

BUILDING MATERIALS at the BUILDING REFIT STORE formally CMHA ReStore. 22-11th Street in downtown Brandon. Good selec-tion of doors, windows, sinks, light fixtures, cabinets and so much more. Free pick-up of good used building materials. Call 728 - 2227

Peoples Market Place. We buy and sell good used furniture and appliances. Estates a specialty. Coins and coin supplies available and a variety of new household furniture and beds. 32-13th Street, Brandon. 204-727-4708 or visit us on FaceBook

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SAVE! NEW! WRAPPED! Queen Pillow-Top Bed Set $395 (Double set $375)! 8-piece solid wood Bed-room Suite including Queen bed, dresser, mirror, chest & 2 night stands $2,295. 12 Drawer Queen Storage Bed $595! 5 piece 42” round drop leaf set $595. 3 piece 36” drop leaf table set $299 (ex-presso or maple). Power Reclin-ing, black, leather set including so-fa, loveseat, center console & chair $2,295. WINTER CLEAR-ANCE SPECIALS extended until the end of March. SAVE 20-60% on available stock! Mon-Fri 10-8, Sat 10-6 & Sun 12-5. Call KDL Furniture at 204-571-1971. 660 Highland Ave., South side of #1 Hwy., Brandon.

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Milestone Potato Piler. 40’ length. 3 phase power. $8500. Call Reit Syd Equipment 1.877.638.9610 or [email protected]

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SOUTH END LUMBER1 block South of Richmond on 13th • Email: [email protected]

1550 - 13th Street South • 728-1570

Winter Booking Sale on Windows & Doors!SAVE NOW! For Spring installation

LOANS AVAILABLEUp to $7,500 on your monthly utilities bill to upgrade your

• WINDOWS • SIDINGInstallation Available

MORTGAGE SALEThe building and land known as 203 - 719 8th Street, Brandon, Manitoba as described in Certifi cate of Title No. 2445359/2 will be sold at auction on Friday, the 17th day of April, 2015 at 11:00 am at 363 - 10th Street, Brandon Manitoba.

The Vendor under Power of Sale is informed that there is situate on the said land a condominium unit comprising of approximately 750 square feet, more or less, with 2 bedrooms and 1 full bath-room and the Vendor under Power os Sale is further informed that the property is serviced by City of Brandon Utilities.

REALTY TAXES: The realty taxes with respect to the said land are paid in full to December 31, 2014.

PRIOR CHARGES: None.

TERMS: Twenty percent of the purchase price in cash or certifi ed cheque and the balance according to auction sale conditions.

The building and land are to be sold subject to a RESERVE BID to be announced prior to the sale.

Further information or a copy of the Auction Sale Conditions may be obtained from:

Brent R. KendallD’Arcy & Deacon LLP

Barristers and Solicitors2200 - One Lombard Place

Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0X7Telephone No. 204-318-2239


Brandon University is offering for sale by Tender the following:Land and Buildings located at

463 13th Street, Brandon, Manitoba

Legal Description: LOTS 19 AND 20 BLOCK 12 PLAN 2 BLTO IN SW23-10-19 WPM;Zoning: “RLD”Lot Size: 85.3' x 120'

• The property will be sold “as is/where is.”• The purchaser is responsible for due diligence enquiries.• Brandon University has placed a reserve bid on the lot.

Note: Site Inspection for interested parties to be held: March 14, 2015 and March 21, 2015 from 2 to 4pm

Inquiries regarding site inspection and Tenderproperty should be directed to: Mr. Gordon Neal,Physical Plant Director, at (204) 727-9659 or [email protected].

Information and Tender Forms are available From: Mrs. Susan Smale, Offi ce of the Vice-President Administration and Finance, at (204) 727-9723 or [email protected].

Tenders will not be accepted unless submitted on Brandon University Tender Forms which may be obtained from Brandon University.

Total fi gures quoted must refl ect the total payable (in Canadian funds) to Brandon University.

The highest, or any Tender need not be accepted by Brandon University. Brandon University shall have the right to evaluate all competing bids and to select the bid considered most advanta-geous to Brandon University, whether or not such criteria has been expressly relayed to Tenderers.

Mail/Courier/Deliver Tenders to:

Meighen Haddad LLP110 – 11th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 4J4

Attention: Ashley Joyce 204-727-8461

Tenders must be placed in a sealed envelope marked: "CONFIDENTIAL - Sale of 463 – 13th Street" and delivered as above specifi ed on or before 4:30 p.m. local Brandon time, Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

500 Adult Size Costumes for sale. Professionally made with quality fabrics; all are clean and in excellent condition. Includes all accessories, plus dozens of extra wigs, hats, etc. Great opportunity for a home based business. Costumes will not be sold individually. Inquire by email for further info and pricing to: [email protected]

POSITIONS: Industrial Meat Cutter (Permanent Full Time)

LOCATION: 6355 Richmond Avenue East Brandon, Manitoba

STARTING WAGE: $13.50-$18.60/hour Plus Production Bonus of up to $1.00/hour and Attendance Bonus of $1.00/hour. Further increases as per Collective Agreement. Relocation Assistance of up to $5,000 available.

Maple Leaf Foods is a leading Canadian food processing company committed to delivering quality food products to consumers around the world. We are looking for Industrial Meat Cutters to join us at our Brandon, Manitoba plant.

POSITION SUMMARY:Positions include slaughtering livestock and removing viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses, cutting pork for further cutting, processing and packaging. Positions are available in a variety of departments including Barn, Dressing, Cut, and Packaging areas.One hundred percent company paid Benefits package provided including Major Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, as well as enrollment in the Maple Leaf Pension Plan.

RESPONSIBILITIES:Participate as part of a team in the processing of hogs to produce fresh and frozen productAssist with various tasks in the department assignedKeep up to production line speedMost jobs in the Barn, Dressing, Cut and Packaging floors include assembly line workKnife and other equipment use may be required

REQUIRED SKILLS:Previous industrial / manufacturing plant experience is considered an assetAbility to work in a wide range of environmental conditions from cool to warm and wet to dryAbility to perform repetitive physical tasks and stand for long periods of timeExperience working with and committed to Good Manufacturing Practices is considered an assetExperience in food manufacturing within a fast paced environment is an assetComfortable being part of a multi-cultural, unionized environmentMust be committed to safe work practicesMust have good communication and interpersonal skills and be focused on continuous improvementUse knives and other equipment to disassemble hog product for further processingEnsure safe and hygienic practices are applied to all tasks performed as per Company policies

APPLICATION PROCESS:If you’re willing to step into a new and exciting career, please complete an application and submit via:

Mail: Maple Leaf Foods Human Resources 6355 Richmond Avenue East Brandon, Manitoba R7A 7M5

Fax: (204) 571-2655


Online: www.mapleleafcareers.com

Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Maple Leaf FoodsEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Maple Leaf FoodsEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

POSITIONS: Production Worker (Permanent Full Time)

LOCATION: 6355 Richmond Avenue East Brandon, Manitoba

STARTING WAGE: $13.50-$18.60/hour Plus Production Bonus of up to $1.00/hour and Attendance Bonus of $1.00/hour. Further increases as per Collective Agreement. Relocation Assistance of up to $5,000 available.

Maple Leaf Foods is a leading Canadian food processing company committed to delivering quality food products to consumers around the world. We are looking for Industrial Meat Cutters to join us at our Brandon, Manitoba plant.

POSITION SUMMARY:Entry-level production work starts with packaging/wrapping non-knife type work.The employee’s primary tasks include receiving live hogs, and or kill (evisceration, hide removal, by-product processing) trimming, de-boning and other cut related activities/ packaging and/ or visual inspection, sorting, grading, scale weighing, truck loading, cleaning, operating equipment as related to above process.One hundred percent company paid Benefits package provided including Major Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, as well as enrollment in the Maple Leaf Pension Plan.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Participate as part of a team in the processing of hogs to produce fresh and frozen productAssist with various tasks in the dept. assignedKeep up to production line speedMost jobs in the Barn, Dressing, Cut and Packaging floors include assembly line work

Be willing to adhere to all hygienic and food safety requirements in the plant

REQUIRED SKILLS:Previous industrial / manufacturing plant experience is considered an assetAbility to work in a wide range of environmental conditions from cool to warm and wet to dryPhysically fit and able to lift, push, and/or pull, weight of up to 27kg (60 lbs)Experience working with and committed to Good Manufacturing Practices is considered an assetExperience in food manufacturing within a fast paced environment is an assetComfortable being part of a multi-cultural, unionized environmentMust be committed to safe work practicesMust have good communication and interpersonal skills and be focused on continuous improvementEnsure safe and hygienic practices are applied to all tasks performed as per Company policies

APPLICATION PROCESS:If you’re willing to step into a new and exciting career, please complete an application and submit via:

Mail: Maple Leaf Foods Human Resources 6355 Richmond Avenue East Brandon, Manitoba R7A 7M5

Fax: (204) 571-2655


Online: www.mapleleafcareers.com

Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Peer support leads to sobriety

Support from people who have been through the same situation is the key to the success of the Alcoholics Anonymous program.

“I had a problem that I

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING

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Brandon Source for SportsPaterson Patterson Wyman

Morningstar MetalEmco WaterworksDr. Brian KiliwnikRoy, Johnston TD5

J&G Homes/Rona SupplyKuiper’s Family Bakery

Brandon Maintenance Services & Wheat City Electric

Bill Murray/Mobile One MarineTotal Eye Care and Fyi Doctors

Advance AutobodyJason Krieser

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didn’t recognize that was causing difficulty in my life,” Phil, who joined the program and has been sober for more than 40 years, told the Journal.

“My family and friends recognized my problem and suggested various things to help me change my life. They were good,

practical things, but these people didn’t know why I was drinking.”

It wasn’t until Phil, whose full identity is not being disclosed in keep-ing with the confiden-tial nature of the group, joined AA where he found others who could identify with what he was

going through.Phil explained that

he didn’t feel comfort-able as himself and was “drinking to make ME ok.” When he started to go to AA meetings he met other people who felt the same way. Being in con-tact with other people who had gone through,

or were going through the same thing, he says, it made all the difference.

“The people in the group knew exactly what I was thinking and feel-ing and I wasn’t alone anymore,” he said. “They were telling me what they did and not telling me what to do.”

By connecting with people who had gone through the process and learning what they did to be successful, Phil was able to stop drinking.

“I committed myself to them and life started to get better.”

The AA program in-volves 12 steps which take the individual on a journey of self-awareness and healing that eventu-ally leads to sobriety.

“I was accepted at the group just the way I was. Through sobriety your feelings of uselessness and self-pity will disap-pear.”

While drinking had a negative effect on his life, Phil has been able to use that time in his life to help others.

“I used to think that I wasted all that time but now it is my resource to share with newcomers to the program,” he said.

Regular meetings are held at several locations throughout Brandon. The group has an answering service where anyone having a problem with alcohol is invited to call and leave a message. Vol-

unteers are then given the callers first name and phone number and initial contact is made. From there, the caller is invited to attend a meeting where fellowship and support is organized.

“We know it’s embar-rassing and hard to phone. We know it’s difficult for the individual and we re-spect that,” Phil added.

Confidentiality is of the utmost importance to the members of the group. Callers can be rest assured that members of the AA group under-stand what they’re going through and are there to help.

If you or someone you know is struggling with the effects of alcohol call 204-571-3684.

Round UpOn March 21 Brandon

AA groups will be host-ing a Round Up event at the Ukrainian Reading Hall, located at 1005 As-siniboine Ave. Speakers will be attending from Winnipeg and Portage to share their stories.

Registration begins at noon with speakers tak-ing the stage at 1 p.m. Tickets are $25 (include an evening meal) and can be purchased in advance through the various AA groups in the city or at the door.

“It’s a day of celebra-tion and no stress,” Phil concluded.

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