Paul Crane, founder of Crane Steel Structures in Brandon and Winnipeg, will be presented with an honorary diploma in Construction Trades from Assiniboine Community College at this year’s graduation ceremony. From today's release. "“I was surprised and humbled that the Board of Governors had selected me for this honour,” said Crane. “To be recognized for personal and professional achievements through my life is amazing. My life in the business world, the construction industry, and the community has many bright spots.” During his time at Crane Steel Structures, Mr. Crane has been recognized for many other awards including the Ben Wiebe Memorial Award (2008) for his contribution to the construction industry and community as well as the President’s Award for Business Person of the Year from the Brandon Chamber of Commerce in the same year. The award is to presented at this year’s graduation ceremony in Brandon to be held in October, 2020. The full announcement can be read here.

From today's Province of Manitoba News Feed The chief provincial public health officer will be extending the public health orders issued on March 30 for two weeks. The orders that were to expire on April 14 are now extended to April 28, 2020, with the following measures remaining in effect: • Public gatherings are limited to no more than 10 people at any indoor or outdoor place or premises. This includes places of worship, gatherings and family events such as weddings and funerals. This does not apply to a facility where health-care or social services are provided including child-care centres and homeless shelters. • All restaurants and other commercial facilities that serve food are prohibited from serving food to customers in their premises. This prevents eat-in dining at all facilities. However, restaurants and other commercial facilities can prepare and serve food for delivery or takeout. If this takes place, the operator of the restaurant must ensure that all people maintain the appropriate social distancing from other customers when picking up food. • All businesses that are not listed in the schedule of critical services that accompanies the order must remain closed. - This closure order does not prevent these businesses from operating on a remote basis. - A business may accept orders on the Internet, or over the phone for delivery or pickup, as long as the employees are not working at the place of business. - The order does not prevent employees or others from coming into the business to perform repairs, to provide security services or to take out items from the business premises if the business is going to operate on a remote basis. - Nothing in the order restricts the operations of delivery of services by the federal or provincial governments or a municipality. - Nothing in the order restricts any activities of a publicly funded agency, organization or authority that delivers or supports government operations or services, including health-care services. This means the order does not affect institutions, agencies and other service providers who provide health-care services such as hospitals, regional health authorities and private agencies who provide a range of health services. The community testing site in Brandon is moving to a new drive-thru location. Starting Tuesday afternoon, the site will be located at the Brandon Town Centre, 800 Rosser Ave., enter from Eighth Street on the P1 level of the centre’s parkade. Regular hours for the relocated Brandon site will resume Wednesday, operating daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Source: Brandon Police Service Media Release On Friday afternoon, Brandon Police and BFES attended a structure fire in the downtown area. The police investigation identified two suspects, a 39-year-old male and a 47-year-old female, both from Brandon. On Saturday morning, the two suspects were located by police and taken into custody without incident. They will both be held for a bail hearing.

Source: Brandon police Service Media Release At 11:30 pm, a male was fueling his vehicle at a convenience store on Victoria Avenue when he was approached by a male claiming to have a handgun, threatened to shoot the victim and then stole the victim’s vehicle. The vehicle was located in the 3500 block of Willowdale and the male suspect was located in a residence in the area. The 25-year-old Brandon male was arrested without incident and lodged for court in the morning. No handgun was located.

Source: Brandon Police Service Media Release At approx. 2:15 AM today a passerby reported coming upon a motor vehicle collision on 1st St North.  Officers attended to the area to find a 2019 Toyota Corolla caught up on top of the guardrail of the bridge over the Assiniboine River, in the southbound on 1st St.  It appeared the 26-year-old female driver from Toronto Ontario, had lost control of the vehicle as she drove southbound.  She hit approximately 12 guardrail posts before coming to rest on top of the rail.  Officers attending noted the driver to be displaying signs of impairment; therefore she was arrested on scene. The driver provided two samples of her breath, which resulted in readings in excess of one and a half times the legal limit.  She has been charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level over .08.  The accused was held in custody and will appear in court later this morning.