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7th Annual Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival

February 4, 5 & 6 - 2010

What's a great way to thaw the winter blues? Brandon's award-winning Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival. Returning for its seventh year it will take place February 4- 6, 2010. Offering a city-wide celebration of culture through education, cuisine, music and dance in 12 different pavilions. Make sure to take in the new pavilions - Colombia, Ethiopian and Mexican while visiting your returning favorites of Chinese, Salvadorian, English, First Nations, French Canadian, Irish, Métis, Scottish and Ukrainian.

All pavilions are open a minimum of 6pm to 11pm Thursday and Friday and from 1pm to 6pm on Saturday. SOME PAVILLIONS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 11pm Saturday! There is no admission into any pavilion - its FREE! Ethnic food, drink and souvenirs are available for purchase at each pavilion.

OPENING CEREMONIES ARE AT 6:00 PM SHARP! DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 PM. THE CEREMONIES ARE AT CITY HALL - 410 9TH STREET AND ARE OPEN TO EVERYONE. Your host this year will be the Chinese Pavilion. In attendance the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - The Honourable Philip S. Lee, C.M., O.M.

Pay no attention to the cold and snow, and get out and celebrate all that Brandon has to offer this year. FREE shuttle service courtesy of Brandon Transit and Manitoba Public Insurance, will travel from pavilion to pavilion every ½ hour.

As you go from pavilion to pavilion remember to pick up your quiz forms. The quiz is sponsored in part by Smitty's Family Restaurant and by Warner Buck Chartered Accountants. Quiz answers are displayed at each pavilion location and there are great prizes to be won.

Remember to bring along your non-perishable food item and drop them off in the food bins located at each pavilion. All proceeds from the food drive will go to Samaritan House food bank.

Take in the 7th annual Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival - it's a great way to warm - the heart! For more information contact Esther at 729-2276.

12 Pavilions
Pavilion Locations:

• Chinese - Town Centre - 800 Rosser Avenue
• Colombia - Wheat City Golf Course - 3500 McDonald Avenue
• Salvadorian - Bethel Christian Assembly - 440 Richmond Avenue
• English - ANAF Hall - 31 - 14th Street
• Ethiopian - Central United Church - 327 - 8th Street (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION IS ON 8^th Street, not 18^th as reported in the Festival Guide)
• First Nations - 205 College Avenue
• French Canadian - Keystone Centre - Exhibition Hall
• Irish - Royal Oak Inn - 3130 Victoria Avenue
• Métis - Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium - 205 - 20th Street
• **Mexico - Crystal Hotel - 838 Pacific Avenue
• Scottish - Victoria Inn Imperial Ball Room - 3550 Victoria Avenue
• Ukrainian - Ukrainian Reading Association Hall - 1005 Assiniboine Avenue
  
  **PLEASE NOTE: The Mexican Pavilion is 18+ ONLY!

Transit Route Map
Bus Routes and Pavilion Locations

2010 Winter Festival Poster
2010 Show Times

Click on the links below to view pictures from previous Winter Festivals:

• Opening Ceremonies
• Chinese
• Salvadorian
• English
• First Nations
• French Canadian
• Irish
• Métis
• Scottish
• Ukrainian

Minimum Hours for all Pavilions:
THURSDAY 6 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
FRIDAY 6 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
SATURDAY 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
These are minimum hours and some pavilions will operate outside of these hours

(www.brandon.ca)

-Prairie Spirit, pine creek, Beautiful Plains, Ft. la bosse and Turtle Mountain school divisions shut down.

-B.S.D. not operating buses outside the city. Parental discretion in effect. Call school if not attending.

-Birdtail Sioux, Park West & Rolling River: no buses. schools open.

-no buses to Ecole La source.

-O'Kelly, Alexander and Spring Valley closed.

-Souris, Deloraine, Waskada, Hartney, Pierson, Melita,  Wawanesa, KeeSee, WayWay schools closed.

-Glenboro school closed - check web site for exam info.

-Sioux Valley School is closed. No buses to Brandon.

-Souris Day Care and School Age Program not operating.

-Rivers kids club closed.

-no McCreary Day Care.

-Miniota Nursery School Closed

Canadians with family in Haiti can call Foreign Affairs' Emergency Operations Centre in Ottawa (800) 387-3124, (613) 943-1055, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Canadians in Haiti can get in touch with Canadian Embassy officials in Port-au-Prince by calling (613) 996-8885.

This is a GREAT place to make donations:

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=33900&tid=001

The Red Cross says 3 MILLION PEOPLE affected by the Earthquake:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100113/haiti_earthquake_100113/20100113?hub=TopStoriesV2

The latest news from Haiti:

(Friday 11:02am)

The Ontario government is promising to provide $1 million in immediate emergency aid to help the people of Haiti.
    The money will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross to support the global relief effort.
    The British Columbia government is contributing $500,000 to the Red Cross effort in Haiti.
    Ontario has already offered to provide any personnel and equipment needed for Canada's role in the relief effort, including expertise in health care, search and rescue teams, forensic services and clean drinking water.
    Premier Dalton McGuinty is offering his thanks to ``all Ontarians who have moved so quickly to offer their assistance to the people of Haiti.''
    Meanwhile, in Haiti, dozens of people have crammed into the Canadian compound in Port-au-Prince.
    Outside the embassy gates, Haitians huddle before heaps of rubble that used to be their homes.
    At least four Canadians have died as a result of the 7.0-magnitude quake and at least four others are still missing.
 

Hundreds of Canadians are still missing after the devastating Haitian earthquake.
    Ottawa lists 14-hundred-15 Canadians as unaccounted for since the big quake.
    Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says the search for them continues.
    One of the missing is former Liberal M-P Serge Marcil.
    Quebec Premier Jean Charest's office is backtracking after earlier saying Marcil had been located and was being taken to Miami for medical treatment.
    Charest's office says the reports were premature and based on faulty information.
    Three military flights carrying 272 Canadians fleeing the horror in Haiti have arrived back on Canadian soil.
    The confirmed Canadian death toll stands at four, with 13 others injured.
        ---
    
    Evacuated Canadians arriving home are telling stories of chaos in the poor, earthquake-ravaged country.
    Dr. Andre Arcelin (ar-sih-LEH') had been on vacation in the Caribbean nation.
    The Montreal man says he was in his car when the magnitude-seven quake hit on Tuesday.
    He says he heard a boom, the earth moved and then houses collapsed all around him.
    Arcelin says he walked to Canadian embassy, which helped him get out of the country.  
    ---
    
    Aid workers in Haiti say they may need more security.
    They're preparing to distribute food and water to (m) millions of desperate earthquake survivors.
    And the U-N peacekeeping mission reports people are growing more angry and impatient in the aftermath of the quake.
    Reports say basic needs are growing by the day for survivors.
    Meanwhile, government workers are being joined by survivors in burying thousands of decaying bodies in mass graves.

(Friday 7:34am)

Emergency aid workers in Haiti say tempers are growing short and more security is needed in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
    There are also reports of looting in the capital Port-au-Prince.
    The U-N World Food Program says it can't tell yet just how much is missing from its pre-earthquake stockpile of 15-thousand tons of supplies.
    Meanwhile, survivors are coping with continuing strong aftershocks as they wait for help.
    There are still only estimates of the death toll from Tuesday's seven magnitude quake.
    Authorities fear it could reach 50-thousand.
    A 20-member advance unit from Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team is on the ground, assessing the most urgent needs. 
    ---
       The Mounties say an R-C-M-P officer is among the four Canadians known to have been killed in the quake.
    The body of Nova Scotia Sergeant Mark Gallagher was found in the rubble of his home in Port-au-Prince.
    R-C-M-P Commissioner William Elliott says they're still hoping Superintendent Douglas Coates of Ottawa will be found.
    Coates is believed to have been at the United Nations building in the capital when it collapsed.
    A couple from Montreal and an Ontario nurse are among the four Canadians confirmed dead.
    Four others are still unaccounted for. 
    ---
        The first Canadians fleeing the horror in Haiti are arriving back home.
    About 150 people -- many showing obvious signs of injury and some in wheel chairs -- arrived in Montreal aboard two military transport planes.
    They were wrapped in white Red Cross blankets, others in grey blankets from the military.
    One of the quake survivors said the experience was hell, adding people are in shock and sleeping next to the dead in the streets.