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This N’ That Mfg. Ltd. production manager Rob Moman is seen in front of a 528-square-foot park-model structure the company built in Neepawa for use in a campground. (Tyler Clarke/The Brandon Sun)
NEEPAWA There aren’t many options for building small houses in Westman, but that doesn’t mean the movement is bypassing the region.
NEEPAWA There aren’t many options for building small houses in Westman, but that doesn’t mean the movement is bypassing the region.
Some municipalities are investigating the trend, and at least one is poised to welcome its first pocket neighbourhood of small houses in the coming months.
Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Save to Read Later
Steve McMillan with VBJ Developments inspects a group of yellow lady’s slipper’s, part of the orchid family, in an ecologically sensitive area on the southeastern edge of Brandon. McMillan and Petro Mykytyn, a field representative with Altus Group Manitoba Land Surveyors, were confirming occurrence areas that were mapped in a 2019 study. (File)
Some of the preserved area for endangered orchids in Brandon’s south end was damaged a couple of weekends ago.
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Some of the preserved area for endangered orchids in Brandon’s south end was damaged a couple of weekends ago.
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A pedestrian walks by an open section of downtown Brandon on Tuesday afternoon. The 6,500-square-metre site was originally designated to house a downtown campus for Brandon University. However, BU officials announced on Monday the project has been shelved due to the lack of a private-sector lead to develop the site. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)
A 6,500-square-metre section of Brandon’s downtown core will remain vacant a little while longer as Brandon University revealed recently its plans to establish a secondary campus at this site have been shelved.
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A 6,500-square-metre section of Brandon’s downtown core will remain vacant a little while longer as Brandon University revealed recently its plans to establish a secondary campus at this site have been shelved.
WINNIPEG A section of land in Brandon slated to be set aside to preserve an endangered orchid that takes more than a decade to grow was accidentally tilled by a neighbouring property owner. The White Lady’s Slipper Orchid, officially known as Cypripedium Candidum, is among Manitoba s species at risk. Manitoba Conservation Data Centre says the orchid is considered very rare, and estimates it takes at least 12 years to reach maturity. The City of Brandon said council recently voted to donate about five acres of city land to a proposed 60-acre area to be owned and operated by The Nature Conservancy of Canada to preserve the White Lady’s Slipper Orchid.
The Kenora Jail
THUNDER BAY Two of seven inmates involved in the hostage-taking of a correctional officer at the Kenora jail in 2018 each entered guilty pleas to various charges stemming from the 2018 incident this week.
On Wednesday, April 7, Travis Polkinghorne, 30, pleaded guilty to a string of charges arising from an incident that took place more than two years ago at the Kenora Jail where a correctional officer was beaten, dragged and held captive by a prisoner with a shank as other inmates made demands for drugs in exchange for his release.
Polkinghorne pleaded guilty to hostage-taking, two counts of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, disarming a peace officer, possession of a prohibited weapon, and uttering threats to cause death. He was handed a six-year jail sentence.