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Vol. 14 No. 3 | Thursday, April 23, 2015

Dennis takes over as executive director of Samaritan House

The Samaritan House in Brandon has a new execu-tive director.

The organization recently announced that Thea Den-nis has taken over the post, filling the shoes of Marla Somersall, who stepped down last December after 12 years on the job. Dennis, 40, has a background in the medical field, receiving a bachelorette degree in nurs-ing at Brandon University and spending the past five years working with Prairie Mountain Health.

“In my personal life, I’ve always done a lot of church work with different organizations within the communi-ty and Westman area, so it was just a good fit,” Dennis told the Journal. “We’re very thankful for everything that Marla (Somersall) has established over the last 12 years at the Samaritan House and we’re looking to cast a vision to the future for the next five to 10 years based on that foundation.”

Dennis will play a key role in launching a capital campaign for Samaritan House in the near future in an effort to improve all facets of the organization – this includes its training centre, literacy program and food bank, which continues to see an increase in hampers distributed out to residences in the area.

“The amount of food hampers since 2005 has gone up from 750 to over 1,500 last month,” she said. “Meanwhile, the donations for food have dropped quite considerably. There’s a challenge there of acquir-ing healthy food for the community and the people who have access to the food banks.”

She says the Samaritan House needs to continue to build strong relationships with stakeholders and com-munity members, which in turn, would help in acquir-ing more healthy food for the hampers.

“It’s about encouraging them, making them aware of food shortages and donations. It’s bringing awareness to the community about the different kinds of home-lessness and food shortages within the homes,” Dennis

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added. “It’s a very big variable as to what the condi-tions are and what people are struggling with, but the numbers speak volumes when it comes to the increase in food hamper usage.”

Dennis says the literacy program will remain an im-portant part of the organization moving forward.

“If we can build up those literacy programs so that people can take their GED (tests) and be competent in the workforce, it’s great for the economy,” she added.

Dennis began her role as executive director on April 1. The Samaritan House is a non-profit organization that works to supply those in need with food, skills, and supplies for daily life.

Folks are always encouraged to donate food and can do so by heading to the Samaritan House Resource Centre, located at 820 Pacific Avenue.

Thea Dennis has taken over as the new executive director of Samaritan House. Dennis takes over for Marla Somersall, who stepped down from the post last December.

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BRHC ‘Room for Renewal’ campaign going strong; approximately $470K raised

Karen Chrest, fundraising coordinator for the Room for Renewal, considers the redevelopment project a perfect fit for the Brandon Regional Health Centre Foundation.

The Room for Renewal is a capital campaign in support of a $12 million renovation project of patient wards at the BRHC. The mission of the project, which was launched last September with a goal to raise $600,000, is to raise funds to support purchases, programs and projects that benefit everyone who uses the services at the hospital and the BRHC campus, such as the Assiniboine Centre, West-ern Manitoba Cancer Treatment Centre and the Murray House.

So far, so good for the campaign as more than $470,000 has been raised. The project represents half of the 10 per cent community contribution that is required by the pro-vincial government for all Manitoba Health projects such as the Room for Renewal.

“We are going to keep working hard in the weeks and months to come, and I would be absolutely thrilled if we could reach our goal in the next few months,” Chrest told the Journal. “I’m always aware that there are many or-ganizations in Brandon and the surrounding community that have wonderful projects of their own and crucial fun-draising to do, so we are so very grateful when donors make those decisions to support us.”

The BRHC, which was formerly known as the Bran-don General Hospital, officially opened its doors in 1962, which makes it well over 50 years old. Chrest says the wards have essentially remained unchanged, with four-bedrooms, cramped bathrooms, lack of storage space for equipment and aging infrastructure.

“What was the norm 50 years ago is very outdated and inefficient now and this renovation and renewal of the hospital wards will mean a world of difference to the pa-tients on those wards.”

Chrest says the project includes the addition of 12 beds to the fourth and fifth floors of the BRHC. It will also in-volve the elimination of four-bed patient rooms, making way for single and semi-private rooms. There will also be completely updated and more spacious bathrooms as well as the relocation of the Pediatrics Unit to the second floor.

“The Brandon Regional Health Centre is really the hub of healthcare for a large portion of our province,” Chrest added. “It provides care to residents in Brandon but also is a regional referral centre with a huge catchment area, so our hospital is at or near 100 per cent capacity at all times. These renovations will help with bed management, im-proved patient care and comfort and will really help with all of the increased demand for inpatient stays.”

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“I then came on board in a communications and pub-lic relations role, which now includes the creation of this new campaign. Together with the foundation’s executive director, Cindy Buizer, we have been working over the past few months creating awareness about the campaign in the community, doing presentations about the proj-ect to potential donors and organizing other fundraising events to help us reach our goal,” she said.

She says donations have ranged from small to large contributions, whether it’s organizations, service clubs, families or businesses.

“Some groups are doing third-party fundraisers of their own in support of the Room for Renewal campaign, which is wonderful,” she said. “Any contributions we get are important and appreciated and are helping to make a difference.”

She says the foundation is also committed to raising funds by putting on their own events, such as the Gala Dinner back in September, which raised more than $58,000. Proceeds from the Room for Renewal Holiday Pancake Breakfast and Tree of Lights campaign as well as

their Vintage Vegas charity event all supported the cam-paign.

“The response from the public has been very positive,” Chrest said. “I am constantly hearing stories from pa-tients who themselves have stayed on the patient wards or who have had family or friends on the wards. They talk about the experience of having so many patients sharing a room, how there is no room to even turn around in the bathrooms, no room to store equipment, no privacy.”

She says people have told her about situations where they’ve sat with loved ones who were terminally ill and there are three other patients in the room with only a cur-tain to offer privacy.

“It’s a very difficult and emotional experience,” Chrest noted. “These stories are very powerful and a real testa-ment to the need for the changes that are going to take place in our hospital.”

For more information or to help support the Room for Renewal campaign, you can contact Chrest at 204-725-4089 or by email at [email protected]. Folks can also drop by the foundation office located on the main floor of the BRHC or call 204-578-4227, email [email protected] or go online to www.brhcfoun-dation.ca. The Room for Renewal campaign is also on Facebook and Twitter: @BRHCF2give.


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how to run a program that works effectively and the public enthusiastically supports?

The recent City of Win-nipeg budget showed how far Brandon has come in budgeting transparency, and how far Winnipeg has to go to catch up. Instead of providing a clear pro-jection of revenues and expenditures, as Brandon now does, Winnipeg’s mayor and council pre-sented a budget that they claimed kept the property tax increase to the rate of infl ation.

In reality, it was a much higher increase that was hidden within other in-creases. For example, they increased both prop-

As many of you know, I write a regular column for the Winnipeg Free Press and appear each week on the Charles Adler radio show on Win-nipeg radio station CJOB. As a result of my work with those two Winnipeg media outlets (the most-read newspaper and the most listened-to radio sta-tion in the province), I am regularly exposed to Win-nipeg stories that I am of-ten asked to comment on.

In the past while, I have frequently refl ected on the misperception that Win-nipeg is far ahead of other Manitoba communities in terms of its approach to governance and the deliv-ery of services. There is a widespread belief within the Perimeter that Win-nipeg leads the way in those areas, and that there is much that communities like Brandon could learn from Winnipeg’s “inno-vative leadership”.

Such an attitude is not merely arrogant; it’s plainly wrong. On a num-ber of areas, Brandon is clearly ahead of Winni-peg and, if their politi-cians had followed our lead, they would be de-livering better, less costly services to the public in a more transparent manner.

Here are a few exam-ples:

Winnipeg recently switched to a garbage collection system like Brandon’s, but fi ve years after we had worked out the kinks. Rather than fol-low Brandon’s example of having garbage col-lected by city staff using city-owned equipment, Winnipeg chose to priva-tize the process. It was a disaster and, in the opin-ion of many Winnipeg-gers, still is.

The City of Winni-peg recently announced that they will be study-ing the viability of hav-ing compostable mate-rial collected by garbage trucks. They are appar-ently oblivious to the fact that Brandon is already collecting that mate-rial through the green bin program. Given that the number of people re-questing green bins has increased substantially each year in Brandon, where is the need for a study in Winnipeg?

Do they honestly be-lieve that Winnipeggers would be less receptive to such a program? Do they think they have to design the collection and processing system from the ground up? Are they too proud, or perhaps uninformed, to simply call their counterparts in Brandon for advice on

erty taxes and the “front-age levy”, which is just another form of property tax that Brandon thank-fully doesn’t have. The process made the tax increase appear smaller than it really is, and Win-nipeggers will only fi gure that out when they get their property tax bills in a few weeks.

On a related point, Winnipeg’s city council recently voted to ensure that they would receive severance payments at the end of their tenure on city council. Brandon doesn’t pay severance to either its mayor or council.

Winnipeggers have re-cently heard about tense relations between fi re

fi ghters and paramedics. The relationship has been described as poisonous. It is a problem that Brandon doesn’t have because all our fi re fi ghters are also paramedics.

The Brandon School Division was the leader among the province’s school divisions to intro-duce all-day kindergar-ten and to move toward smaller class sizes for children in early years. Winnipeg school divi-sions are just starting to catch up.

None of this is to say that all is perfect at Bran-don’s city hall and school division, but appear to have resolved issues that Winnipeg is still strug-

gling with. It is time to dispel the notion that Winnipeg is far ahead of us in terms of the services that are being provided to us. In fact, there is a lot that the city of Winnipeg could learn from us, in terms of providing better services in a more trans-parent and cost-effective manner.

That is, if they’re will-ing to swallow their pride and pick up the phone.

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Dear Editor. Have you noticed lately, and especially

over the past few months, how the news-papers are publishing letters from our lo-cal Manitoba Conservative MPs?

Expounding on how the federal gov-ernment is making things better for the taxpayers; by keeping taxes low while investing in important projects in western Manitoba.

Since 2006, the Conservative Govern-

ment has saved the average Manitoba fam-ily approximately $3,600 in taxes every year, we are told. In one sense, I appreci-ate it’s an election year and an opportune time to make catchy announcements; for what attracts voters attention better, than saving money?

Yet, in another sense, this is noth-ing more than a combination of rhetoric broadcasting propaganda and politics.

For instance: does the taxpayer really

benefi t? When provinces are being short changed from Ottawa’s cashbox, they in turn, download to the municipalities and also the public, by raising or including tax-es on a multitude of services such as PST, insurance policies, etc.

Municipalities, in order to keep and maintain their commitments, need to in-crease their mill rates to compensate for the reduced revenue that they’re being faced with.

So, the MPs can boast and brag all they like, but in the fi nal analysis, there is only one taxpayer (you) so if there is a ‘saving’ from the federals, that ‘saving’ will more than likely be gobbled up by the two re-maining governments.

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With the warmer weather, comes an issue that seems to get the goat – and we’re talking non-farmers here – of a few people, in some cases, where they’re tempted to verbally or physically as-sault the perpetrator.

It’s an issue that 99 per cent of us wouldn’t con-sider for more than 10 seconds, if that. But to the other one per cent, it’s serious.

Serious enough for some, that it has jeop-ardized relationships, started more than one argument and has left a hole or two. There’s even an urban legend that one distraught person went as far as putting a “No Sox Please” sign on the bed-room door.

You guessed it.That ‘fashionista’ ques-

tion that comes to the forefront at this time of year: Should socks be worn with sandals?

There are at least two schools of thought on this

matter.The first is well fi-

nanced and comes from the hosiery industry (use your own imagination and insert comment about hosiers and their socks here).

This is an industry that stands to lose dollars if people aren’t buying socks. There is no statis-tic that shows if men or women are the biggest culprits when it comes to wearing socks with sandals. But let’s be hon-est. You may have seen a guy walking along a white sandy beach wear-ing socks but there aren’t too many recorded events showing a woman walk-

ing along the same beach wearing pantyhose which for the sake of this unsci-entific article, is classi-fied as hosiery.

It’s not known how much money the indus-try has spent trying to persuade consumers that socks and sandals are a perfect match but there are strong arguments ‘for’.

For example, wearing socks with sandals will keep your feet clean, es-pecially if walking on sand or any derivative of sand, such as mud. Also, bugs don’t find socks as appetizing as skin. Al-though this isn’t scientifi-cally proven, how many

of you have had bug bites on your heels and toes when relaxing on a beach chair wearing sandals and socks?

Most importantly, the hosiery industry could argue that wearing socks with sandals is sanitary and healthy. Would you rather step in unseen dog poop wearing socks with your sandals or be bare-foot?

The second school of thought is that socks should never be worn with sandals.

Look at all the photos of historical figures wear-ing sandals. Ever see a Roman gladiator on his chariot wearing socks with his sandals? Al-though it could be argued socks may not have been an everyday item back then.

It can be argued you look silly with socks while wearing sandals. The sandals are to help you stay cool, and maybe look cool, while socks

retain body heat and you look ‘uncool’.

Then there’s another school of thought: who cares.

There are undocument-ed cases of people refus-ing to speak to others be-cause they were wearing socks with sandals. Who knows what could have transpired if this preju-dice was set aside. Don’t judge someone by how they dress.

What if the socks have holes in them? What type of message does this send out? You can’t afford new

socks or you don’t know how to sew?

So as we approach the warm season, give the ‘socks/no socks’ issue some thought. It deserves at least 60 seconds of your time.

P.S. Here is something to think about when you have nothing better to do or are looking for a rea-son not to do something. You’ve probably seen one of those signs stating ‘No Shoes, No Service’.

Would this include a barefoot sandal-wearing individual?

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The 40 is having a ben-efit social for Ryan McK-ay on May 1.

McKay was in a seri-

ous head-on car accident in March and survived but has many injuries to recover from.

The 40 will have two guest bands at this time – Clubbing Fraggles and FUGR – that will be play-ing that night.

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Biodynamic viticulture, a type of organic viticulture, was founded by Rudolph Steiner, a philosopher and scientist. Known as the ‘father of dy-namism’ Steiner believed that lunar and astrological infl uences have great infl uences on soil and plant devel-opment. Methods identifi ed by his ‘spiritual science’ have been applied to soil fertility, plant growth, livestock care, cotton production and silkworm breeding.

Biodynamic followers believe that certain days have optimal conditions for planting, pruning and tending crops based on the cycles of the moon and that the ‘forces of growth’ coming from the moon are the strongest. An astronomical calendar has been devel-oped based on careful observations of the rhythms of the moon, the moon cy-cles and its placement in the astrologi-cal signs. The calender specifi es fruit, root, fl ower or leaf days. Days with

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Fruit Day? Root Day? Leaf Day? Flower Day? optimal conditions for particular tasks such as pruning, leaf pulling, harvesting, winemaking and yes, even wine tasting.

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With interest rates so low, you may be thinking of taking the big step into home ownership, ‘mov-ing up’ or even refi nanc-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.

Get pre-approvedMany people want the

security of knowing they have a pre-approved mort-gage before they go house

shopping. Having a pre-ap-proved mortgage helps you focus on looking at houses you can afford and pro-vides the security of know-ing you meet the fi nancing requirements of the home you are trying to buy.

The down payment decision

Conventional mortgages do not exceed 80 per cent of the purchase price of a house – you supply the other 20 per cent as a down payment. If you don’t have

• When you consider buying your fi rst home, purchas-ing a new home or even refi nancing, it’s important to fi rst understand the me-chanics of your mortgage.

• 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 fi xed or variable rate.

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Knowing what’s what with mortgages can save you money!

that kind of cash on hand, you can apply for a high ratio mortgage, but it must be insured through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) or GE Mortgage Insurance Canada (GE). In this case, it’s important to keep in mind that you need to pay an insurance premium typ-ically in the range of 1 per cent to 3 per cent of your mortgage amount. This fee may be added to the mort-gage amount.

Amortization periodAmortization is the

number of fi xed pay-ments or years it takes to repay the entire amount of a mortgage. The tradi-tional amortization period is 25 years, but by making higher monthly payments over a shorter amortiza-tion period, you’ll pay off the loan much faster and save substantially on borrowing costs. Acceler-ated mortgage payment By making accelerated payments you’ll pay off your mortgage faster. The same is true of lump-sum payments. When you have excess cash, you can use

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TermA mortgage term is the

period of time for which the money is loaned un-der the same rate. When the term expires, you have the choice of repaying the balance of the principal still owing or renegotiating your mortgage for a further term.

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A closed mortgage al-lows limited pre-payment privileges and a penalty

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No. 1 Minimal calories burned. Approximately 45 minutes on a treadmill may burn a whopping 300 calories if you’re lucky – the equivalent of about one 10th of a pound of fat. Exercise 10 hours a week and you might just lose a pound. Of course something is better than nothing, but if you want more bang for your buck, there are more effective methods.

No. 2 Way too much time involved. It’s highly likely that you do not have hours and hours to spend in the gym or hitting the pavement. If you do and that is your thing, then go for it. If not, do not fret. Research is proving that long drawn out sessions are having the opposite effects on our health. The body sees a long duration

workout as a stress and as result, responds with a spike in cortisol result-ing in more belly fat. The very thing we all want to avoid.

No. 3 Beyond that, slow-go cardio is boring. Sitting on an exercise bike or running on a treadmill staring at the wall for 45-60 minutes? No thanks.

No. 4 No prolonged metabolic benefit. Did you know that with high intensity exercise it’s pos-sible to continue to burn calories for up to 48 hours post workout? Long du-ration, low intensity car-dio provides virtually no prolonged elevation in metabolism once the exercise is over. In fact, with slow-go cardio, me-tabolism returns to base-line almost immediately following the exercise

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that trumps all the others:No. 5 Minimal fat loss.

Minimal calories burned during the session and virtually no additional calories burned afterward equals minimal, if any fat loss results. And let’s be honest, the only reason anyone is doing cardio is for the ‘result’.

Don’t get it wrong, a good run can be great. A run along the beach or in the mountains on vaca-tion, is awesome – if you do it occasionally. If you do prolonged steady state cardiovascular exercise as your sole way of staying fit, the body will figure it out. Your body is smart and adapts very quickly to whatever you throw at it and eventually your weight loss will come to

a halt.So if slow-go cardio

isn’t a great solution, what is? You may have heard it before – build some muscle! It’s your No. 1 friend in the battle of the bulge! Muscle is meta-bolically active, meaning it burns up calories like crazy. Gain muscle and burn calories while sitting at your desk at work! Top if off with a high intensity interval session and you will rev up your metabo-lism like never before. Pick up those weights or do some fabulous body-weight training and get intense for a short period of time. Runners, do some interval sprints. Walkers, go walk up a hill a few times. Get intense and get that after burn for hours afterward. If you have been on the ‘dreadmill’

for ever or have had the same routine forever and are not seeing results, it’s time to change things up. If you’re not sure where to start, talk with your lo-cal gym to get started with a trainer and rev up your metabolism for good.

Renee Hunt is the owner of Lustre Fitness and Lifestyle which provides fi tness classes and person-alized nutrition plans to Brandon and surround-ing area.

Bonnie Hopps, education facilitator for the Arthri-tis Society of Manitoba/Nunavut, was one of the speakers at the Painbusters Arthritis Forum re-cently in Brandon.

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“It’s the breakdown of the cartilage that covers the ends of your joints,” Hopps said regarding arthritis. “So when carti-lage starts to become very thin, very brittle, it breaks off. That causes a lot of pain.”

She says exercise is im-portant for folks with ar-thritis and it can help pre-vent the amount of pain they’ll endure.

“People with arthri-tis say, ‘I’m not going to exercise. I hurt all over.’ That’s really not the case,” Hopps added. “When you exercise, you’re exercising the joints that are affected.

“So if it’s your knees, you want to make sure that your muscles that are surrounding the knee joint are really strong. Those bones will stay aligned and the more they’re aligned, the less pain you’re going to have,” Hopps continued. “You can build up the muscles to really protect the joint. You can do that with your whole body.”

She says eating healthy can also help reduce pain, such as following the Canada Food Guide.

“Eating healthy and keeping your weight down will help. If you’re

10 pounds overweight, it adds another 40 pounds of stress to your knees. So that’s a good equation to think about.”

She says 44 per cent of those that have arthritis are between the ages of 44-64. Arthritis can be di-agnosed at a very young age as well.

“It’s not just as you get older. We have a lot of children in the province of Manitoba that have arthritis. “They get diag-nosed very young.”

She says one child in every school in the prov-ince has arthritis. A lot of them get diagnosed at a

very young age between 19-22 months.

Hopps says in the prov-ince, more than 250,000 people are diagnosed with arthritis. In Canada, there are approximately 4.6 million who have the disease. Out of the 4.6 million, three million have osteoarthritis, which is the most prevalent kind of arthritis, affecting men and women over the age of 60.

The Painbusters Ar-thritis Forum took place Wednesday, April 15 at the MNP Hall in the Key-stone Centre. Hopps was one of several presenters

at the event who spoke about how to live more comfortably with the dis-ease. The forum, which was presented by the Ar-thritis Society Manitoba/Nunavut Division, also included keynote speak-er Dr. David Robinson, director of the Arthritis Centre at the Health Sci-ences Centre and depart-ment head of Rheumatol-ogy at the University of Manitoba.


More than 100 get haircuts to support diabetes

The second annual Cut For Diabetes fundraiser was a success.

The event, which took place Saturday, April 11 at Hair Today Mall Barbers in the Shoppers Mall, saw more than 100 folks get haircuts in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association.

“I thought it went really well,” Jim Mur-ray, owner of Hair Today, told the Journal. “We had quite a few people that bought tickets for our draw baskets as well. The staff was very enthusiastic about partici-pating again this year, so it was something that we really enjoyed and we’ll definitely be doing it again.”

A portion of the proceeds from each haircut and raffle (which was also orga-nized by the staff at Hair Today) went to the CDA. All funds raised will stay in the

Westman region supporting CDA initia-tives. Last year’s event saw Brandon East MLA Drew Caldwell walk through the doors for a cut. This year, there weren’t any high profile names from the area who attended – that is unless, you count the one, the only John LoRegio, Brandon coordinator for the CDA and Journal con-tributor.

“No celebrities this year other than John (LoRegio),” Murray said with a smile. “John was our celebrity draw master (for the raffle).”

Murray says the decision to put on an event like this was because his family has a history with diabetes.

“It’s a cause that definitely my wife and I support wholeheartedly. It’s just a way for us to give back to the community.”

In addition to the CDA event, the bar-bershop is a major sponsor of the local women’s shelter and regularly supports breast cancer research in the community.

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Bargain hunters are sure to find great deals once again at the massive United Way Garage Sale. The event is sold out with 150 tables booked for the indoor sale, which is held twice each year. The spring event is scheduled for April 25 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Manitoba Room of the Keystone Centre.

“We generally sell out about three weeks prior to each sale,” Cynamon Mychasiw, CEO of the Brandon United Way, told the Journal.

“We have everything from baking and crafts to garage sale finds to home party items.”

Tables rent for $25 on the inside of the room or $30 around the outside which in-cludes hydro. The charitable organization has had a great deal of success hosting the event in the spring and the fall each year since the first sale which was held in the fall of 2010.

Although the spring show is already sold out, bookings will soon be accepted for the fall show scheduled for Oct. 3 and Mychasiw encourages anyone who is in-terested to book space early.

Admission to the sale for eager shop-pers is $2 for anyone 12 and older with children under 12 admitted for free.

“It’s a great fundraiser for our group,” Mychasiw added. “We bring in between $7,000 and $8,000 from admission and table rentals at each sale.”

These funds are added to the annual Brandon United Way budget which in-cluded $789,000 funds raised in 2014. These funds were distributed to 24 organi-zations which host 29 programs through-out the community. Programs such as in school leadership, adult literacy and be-fore and after school programs benefit

from the efforts of the United Way.Mychasiw explained that donations to

the United Way are a big benefit to the community.

“We are doing what we don’t want other organizations to have to do which is fun-draise,” she said. The United Way looks after the administration and organization of fundraising events throughout the year so that the other organizations can focus on what they do best.

“They can spend their time and resourc-es putting on their programs and not have to worry about raising funds,” she con-cluded.

Colts to be trained in four hours

Trainers will have a short period of time to work with green, two-year-old colts as part of the Horse 3 show at the Keystone Centre from May 1 – 3.

Each trainer will work with their colt for one hour sessions Friday, Saturday morning, Saturday after-noon and Sunday morning before the final competi-tion takes place at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 3.

“Four hours isn’t a lot of time to work with a colt but it’s amazing to see what these trainers can do in such a short period of time,” said Dave Mein, ag-ricultural sales and events manager with the Key-stone Centre.

“Even for someone like me who doesn’t know much about horses, this is a very interesting show.”

Competitors will guide their horses through an ob-stacle course on Sunday af-ternoon to show how suc-cessful they’ve been.

Participating in this year’s NAERIC Trainer’s Challenge are Lachlan Bell, Russ Krachun and Tom Durocher.

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Krachun was raised in Ukraine where he began working with horses at the age of six. His uncle passed on the knowledge of their ancestors, the Ko-zaks, who had a reputation for trick riding and their talent with swords. Krac-hun immigrated to Canada as an adult and shared his ideas of horsemanship in his new country. He devel-oped a system of building partnerships – step by step where people and their horses work in coopera-tion, respect and harmony with each other.

Durocher grew up on the Fishing Lake Metis Settlement in East-Central Alberta. As was com-mon in the past, Durocher was raised and trained to “break” a horse. Ridiculed for his beliefs that there was a kinder, gentler way to quiet a horse, Durocher trained in his own style when no one was looking. When he received the book “The Man Who Listens to Horses” by Monty Rob-erts, Durocher discovered he was not alone in his thinking. He pursued the introductory and advanced

course by Roberts and now continues these methods.

The NAERIC Trainer’s Challenge is part of the overall Horse 3 event and is open to the public. Nu-merous clinics, lectures and other events are taking place throughout the week-end. The public is invited to register for clinics such as Back Up Without Re-sistance, Halter Breaking, Rebuilding Rider Confi-dence and Understanding the Horse’s Brain, to name a few. Lectures touch on a wide range of topics in-cluding treating equine wounds, cowboy dressage, horse acupuncture and much more.

This is the eighth year for the event which attracts about 1,000 people each year.

“The entire event is a great learning opportunity for anyone working with horses,” Mein said. “The clinicians and lecturers have a lot of information to share and those who attend are always learning some-thing new.”

Full details on the sched-ule of events and clinicians can be found on the key-stone website at www.key-stonecentre.com.

Four-year deal at Brandon UniversityBrandon University and the BU Faculty Association have reached a new four-year

agreement. The deal will run from April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2019. The agreement provides

salary increases of two percent in each of the fi rst three years and two and one-half percent in the fi nal year.

The agreement will take effect immediately, having been ratifi ed by both the BUFA membership and the university’s board of governors.

BUFA Membership voted 95 per cent in favour of the agreement. “The overwhelming support we’ve received in ratifi cation is a clear indication that

all of BUFA’s many constituent units are happy with the agreement,” Dr. Meir Serfaty, president of BUFA. “We are proud as a Union that our negotiating team was able to achieve several important gains including enhancements in program stability and in working conditions, both of which will foster the pursuit of research, teaching and service to the community. The outcome will benefi t not only our Members but also the students and the University as a whole.”

The negotiating teams reached a tentative agreement prior to the March 31, 2015 expiry date of the last collective agreement; a move that is unprecedented in the uni-versity’s recent history. A 45-day strike in 2011 interrupted the school year for approxi-mately 3,100 students.

“Brandon University is an excellent institution for post-secondary education with many accomplishments,” said BU president and vice-chancellor Dr. Gervan Fearon. “The strong support for the collective agreement affi rms the future that we are building together in support of student success, teaching and learning excellence, and research innovation. I’m very proud of this accomplishment, which refl ects a concerted effort to improve faculty and staff relations at the university.

“The collective agreement emerged from the hard work of the BUFA and University negotiating teams who had frank discussions aimed at resolving issues and exploring opportunities for the mutual benefi t of all parties,” he continued.

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Kitrina Plante, one of two actresses cast as Mary Poppins, holding Mary’s special parrot head um-brella.

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Cast members are ex-cited about the idea of flying as Kitrina Plante, one of two actresses cast as Mary Poppins, ex-claims, “It (flying) might be the best thing about having this part (Mary).”

Plante adds that she has jumped out of an air-plane and gone bungee jumping, so flying does not worry her. “I’m very trusting,” she said.

Plante is well-known to Brandon audiences for her amazing voice, hav-ing played Patsy Cline in two different shows for 7

Ages as well as other lead roles over the years.

Wanda Nicol plays the role of Winifred Banks, while Diane Nelson ap-pears as both the Bird Woman and Miss An-drew, George Banks’ nas-ty nanny.

On alternate nights the role of Mary Poppins will be played by Aliah Nel-son, a recent graduate of Brandon University’s op-era program. Nelson is a multiple award-winner at Brandon’s Festival of the Arts and will be continu-ing her studies in voice next fall as she pursues a master’s degree in vocal

performance. “As you can expect, there will be some amazing vocal per-formances in this show,” Buri adds.

Mary Poppins was orig-inally a series of books written by P.L. Travers about an unusual nanny who had many amazing adventures. Walt Disney purchased the rights to make a film and “Mary Poppins” starring Julie Andrews, was released in 1964. The film quickly became a classic.

The stage play keeps most of the songs from the film such as Supercal-ifragilisticexpialidocious, Let’s Go Fly a Kite, Feed the Birds, Chim-Chim-Cheree, A Spoonful of Sugar, Step In Time, and Jolly Holiday. A few new songs have been added to the stage show, while new arrangements were also created, including some challenging harmonies.

Meanwhile, the danc-ing penguins are gone, re-placed by . . . oops, that would be a spoiler.

In Act 2, the chimney sweeps tap dance over the rooftops of London – the longest dance sequence in the show.

Perhaps the greatest surprise to audiences will be the performances of the

young actors called upon to play the children, Mi-chael and Jane. They’re on stage for nearly every scene and must sing and dance as well as act. The role of Michael will be played on alternate days by Carson and Brody Burr. Jane will be played by Olivia Hayward and Lily Simard.

The show promises to

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The Neelin junior varsity boys basketball team took home a silver medal at the AAA provincials. Photo submitted

High school sports winter roundup

This past winter was a successful one for the Neelin high school boys basketball program.

The Spartans varsity team won bronze at the AAA provincials, while the Neelin boys junior varsity squad earned sil-ver at the AAA provin-cials. Both the Neelin JV and freshmen boys teams won Brandon High School Basket-ball League champion-ships. These hardwood results were just some of the highlights from the winter sports season for Brandon’s three high schools.

At the AAA varsity boys provincials in Mor-den, the Spartans downed St. James, 59-43 in the third place game.

Neelin’s Brock Hitner was named to the tour-nament all-star team for the Spartans, who are coached by Carey Lasuik and Adam Philpott.

“The keys to our team winning bronze this year was defence and team-work,” Lasuik said. “We’re not a high scor-ing team, therefore we needed to work very hard on our defence. When the boys worked hard on defence as a team and rebounded well we knew we could be in any game.

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“When it was all said and done, the boys worked hard to finish the season with a bronze medal.”

In Beausejour, the Nee-lin JV boys team fell in the provincial champion-ship game to St. James 69-45. The Spartans had a big 65-40 victory over Windsor Park in the semi-finals.

“Success really was them learning how to commit to training and working hard to improve on a daily basis,” JV head coach Don Thomson said. “We had 10 players in which six were Grade 9 and first time players and four Grade 10s who had one year of playing expe-rience.

“Once the players be-came comfortable with working hard to improve daily, success was very evident in not only finish-ing second at provincials but individual and team improvement at the end of the year,” he added.

Vincent MasseyFor the first time ever,

Vincent Massey high school track and field head coach Jason Jones had his team compete in the Athletics Manitoba high school indoor track and field season. The Vi-kings had a very strong debut season with sev-eral athletes recording impressive results at the championships in Win-nipeg.

Iwan Levin won a gold medal in the junior boys’ 60-metre hurdles with a time of 9.29 seconds. He was also a part of the gold

medal winning 4x2000-metre relay team. Levin, Daniel Lysack, Mack Adams, and Rhett Bry-ant won with a time of 1:41.58.

Katrina Reid won silver in high jump after clear-ing 1.45 metres. Char-lot Butler won a bronze medal in the junior girls’ 60-metre sprint (8.46 sec-onds). She was also on the Vikings bronze med-al winning junior girls’ 4x200-metre relay team. The team of Butler, Em-ily Lewis, Willow Egan and Jaelyn Miscavish fin-ished third in 1:55.87.

Jones was pleased with the team’s first year of in-

door competition. He not-ed the Vikings have good numbers and enthusiasm for the outdoor season as well.

The Vikings also had success on both the ice and the hardwood this past winter. Vincent Massey won the West-man High School Hockey League championship. Meanwhile, both of the Vikings boys and girls curling teams earned pro-vincial berths.

For the first time in 16 years, the Vikings var-sity boys basketball team won the city champion-ship. The Vincent Massey junior varsity girls and

freshmen girls also earned city titles.

Crocus PlainsThe Crocus Plains var-

sity girls basketball team were city champs this past year.

“The key to our success this season was that we had a very well balanced and experienced team,” Crocus Plains head coach Adam Hartman said. “We had seven seniors on the team that included skilled guards that handled pres-sure well and some size that allowed us to get scoring from different positions both inside and out. When it came down to it, we were led by Mi-

chelle Kyle, Shanelle Haliuk and Desirae Pei-ffer.”

Hartman noted that Pei-ffer led the team in almost every statistical category. She was named to the all-star team at two tourna-ments and selected to the Manitoba 4A graduating all-star team.

On the ice, the Crocus Plainsmen won the West-man High School Hockey League’s consolation championship. They swept the best-of-three consolation finals against Minnedosa.

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ern Canada are rightfully excited about Winnipeg Jets, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks mak-ing the National Hockey League playoffs, but the Canadian hockey story this spring has to be the Ottawa Senators.

In a city where promis-es are the order of the day in the world of politics, there was nothing very promising about the Sena-tors’ season as Valentine’s Day came and went. The Sens had replaced coach Paul MacLean with Dave Cameron in December but were a whopping 14 points off a playoff spot on Feb. 10.

Then they got on a roll. They got hot. And hotter. And now, with the first round of playoffs under way, here are the Sena-tors, battling with the di-vision-champion Montre-al Canadiens for the right to advance to the second round.

Ottawa went an aston-ishing 22-4-4 down the stretch to overtake Boston Bruins and become Can-ada’s fifth playoff team. Only the Oilers and Leafs failed to add to Canada’s

playoff glory.So what happened?

Credit has to go to Cam-eron, who is among seven or eight coaches with le-gitimate credentials to be named coach of the year. Rookie goaltender Andrew Hammond, the Hamburglar, played like a combination of Sawchuk, Roy and Brodeur and won his first 15 consecutive games, an NHL record. Rookie forward Mark Stone, the former Bran-don Wheat King, caught fire down the stretch and joined with Kyle Turris and Bobby Ryan to pro-vide Ottawa with a great one-two-three offensive punch. Stone, likely to be a top-rookie finalist with Calgary’s Johnny Gaud-reau and Nashville’s Filip Forsberg, accounted for 35 points in Ottawa’s final 31 games, coinciding with

the Sens’ red-hot stretch drive. In Ottawa’s final game, the playoff-clinch-ing 3-1 win over Philly, Stone scored twice to give him 26 on the season.

“I don’t care how good your team is, you never sit back and say you know you’re going on a roll like this, but we knew we put in the work and right now things are going good for us,” Cameron told NHL.com.

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• Greg Cote: of the Mi-ami Herald: “Pete Rose has officially petitioned baseball for reinstate-ment. I wouldn’t bet on his chances. ‘I would!’ said Rose.”

• Ian Hamilton of the Re-gina (Sask.) Leader-Post, after Pats QB Tom Brady took a 40-foot cliff dive during a fam-ily vacation in Costa Rica: “Here’ s hoping his water wings were properly inflated.”

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• Dwight Perry of the Se-attle Times: “A’s third baseman Brett Lawrie struck out four times — on 12 pitches — in an early April game. On the bright side, he’s just been named an honor-ary letterman at Ole Miss.”

• Janice Hough again, after the Thunder announced that hobbled star Kevin Durant has been ‘re-moved from basketball activities’: “Does that mean they traded him to the Knicks?”

• Greg Cote again: “Ever wonder how the tradi-tion of cutting down the nets began in basket-ball? Turns out it was started by the American Association of People Who Sell Basketball Nets.”

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• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com again: “Happy 87th birthday Gordie Howe, who is reportedly doing well just four months after a nearly fatal stroke. To celebrate, he threw an elbow at his neurologist.”

• TC Chong: “Cubs fans had to pee into cups as the restrooms at Wrig-ley Field were out of order on Opening Day. For those that drank more than a couple of beers, they needed to use a relief pitcher.”

• Blogger Marc Ragovin: “Troy Polamalu has re-tired. His final message to Steeler Nation: “I’m outta hair.”

• Finally, another one from Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com, after the Twins scored just one run in the season’s first 36 in-nings: “Are they trying to become the official MLB team of Major League Soccer?”

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The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame re-cently announced the 2015 nominees for induction and among those to be enshrined include four Westman products.

Oak River’s John Paddock and Glad-stone’s Andy Murray will be honoured as builders, while Elkhorn’s Sheldon Ken-nedy and Minnedosa’s Curt Ridley will be going into the H.O.F. as players.

Paddock played junior hockey with the Wheat Kings prior to moving up to the

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“John was more than deserving (to be inducted),” Don Kuryk, president of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame, told the Journal. “His background from Manitoba and really, if you take a look at his coach-ing record, it’s impeccable.”

Murray, who grew up in Souris, saw time behind the bench at a young age (25) before ending up the bench boss of the

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Kennedy had a very good junior hockey career, winning a World Junior title and a Memorial Cup before moving up to the NHL. Kennedy is now better known for his off-ice work as an advocate for victims of abuse.

Ridley, a goaltender, joined the Boston Bruins’ AHL team after a successful junior

career in Manitoba. He would then play for the New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s. He is best known as the only goaltender to shut out a touring Soviet Union team when the Canucks beat Moscow Spartak.

Meanwhile, the 1975-76 Deloraine Roy-als and 1953-54 Dauphin Kings will be honoured in the team category.

Others to be honoured at an induction dinner in Winnipeg, Oct. 3, include players Cully Wilson, Cam Connor, Al Hares and Dianne Woods, offi cial Gerry Varnes and Scott Oake, who will enter the hall in the media category.

Assiniboine Community Col-lege has received full eligibil-ity with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

This builds on the college’s existing eligibility under the National Science and Engineer-ing Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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and keep programs relevant, helping students to develop more effective problem solving skills that will serve them well as graduates entering the work-force.”

With eligibility status, ACC has access to all SSHRC pro-grams open to post-secondary institutions. The college is awaiting word on its fi rst pro-

posal submitted under SSHRC’s Community and College Social Innovation Fund to support re-search evaluating the benefi t of self-directed learning strategies for adult learners.

“Educational outcomes are enhanced as students become involved in projects aimed at solving real issues faced by in-dustries and communities,” said

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The floods of 2011 and 2014 in Brandon are etched in the minds of those who experienced it.

To help reflect on those two periods of time, the City of Brandon as well as its emergency support staff hosted, “On The Edge: Brandon’s Assiniboine River Story” last week.

Approximately 220 people from the Brandon area attended the two-hour event which included sto-ries, photos and videos from the two major floods. There was also live music from the local band “Lucky Ned” which included Bill Turner of CKLQ.

“Really the intent of the evening was to provide some of the back stories to some of the things that happened,” Brian Kayes, City of Brandon emer-gency coordinator. “There was so much information that could’ve been shared, we probably could’ve did a two-day seminar.”

He says the event, which took place Monday, April 13, touched on the deci-sions to evacuate people from their homes and what went into the decision.

“We tried to share some things with people that they wouldn’t have re-ally had the opportunity to hear about before, stuff that didn’t necessarily get covered in the media. That kind of thing,” Kayes add-ed.

Kayes says one of the more interesting stories during one of the floods that was presented was a situation he called the ‘beaver whisperer’.

“Really it’s a story about one of our crew members that was standing by the river and a beaver came out of the river and proceeded to try to walk down 18th Street. He was trying to get the beaver off the roadway and then it turned on him and stood up on its hind legs and showed its teeth.

“It’s those kinds of things people didn’t know and were certainly interest-ing to hear,” Kayes contin-ued.

He says the spring flood in 2011 forced the city to raise the level of its dike protection.

“Without that already in place, the rainstorm that occurred in 2014 came on us so quickly that we would not have had time to have been able to prop-erly react without all of the work we had already done in 2011.”

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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

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The Brandon Commu-nity Orchestra and Bran-don Community Band are joining forces to present “A Community Celebra-tion.”

The joint concert will take place on Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium.

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Both musical groups are comprised of members of the general public who are joined together under the common love for music.

This is the first time the two groups are coming together to present a com-munity concert and orga-nizers are excited about the opportunity.

The groups will be pre-senting a wide range of music with everything

from pop songs, to clas-sical pieces and movie theme songs on the play list.

“There is a good mix for everyone,” said Joyce Agar, who plays second violin with the orchestra.

This is the final perfor-mance of BCO conduc-tor Kevin James, a 2014 Brandon University music school graduate. Origi-nally from Virden, James

moved to the city to serve with the Royal Canadian Artillery. Following de-ployment in Afghanistan in 2010, he began to pur-sue his passion for music on a professional level. He will be continuing his studies, working toward a masters of music degree.

“We have really grown as a group under Kevin’s direction. He has instilled in us ways to play with

excitement and I think this will come through for the audience,” Agar said.

Brandon Commu-nity Band is led by Anna Penno, who also gradu-ated from BU School of Music. Penno taught in Winnipeg before return-ing to her hometown of Brandon where she teach-es music at Crocus Plains and Neelin.

“This collaboration with

the Brandon Community Orchestra is a highlight of our performance season,” said Penno in a press re-lease.

Members of the BCB practice each week at Crocus Plains and is com-prised of people from a variety of age groups and musical backgrounds and includes school band di-rectors, high school stu-dents and community members.

The orchestra meets each week at BU School of Music and draws mem-bers from the city and sur-rounding communities. The group consists of 45 people playing string, brass, woodwind and per-cussion.

“We have members in our group who range from teenagers to people in their mid-80s,” said Agar. “The young people are of-ten teaching us older peo-ple and we are energized by them.”

Tickets for the concert are $12 for adults and $6 for children 12-and-under and can be purchased at the door.

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