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Complete: Motorists will soon be welcomed into Brandon with new highway signs.

Four of six new signs have arrived in the Wheat City, with installation slated to begin this week.

The signs have been designed with an earth palette to respect Brandon’s agricultural prosperity and its affinity for nature. They feature a graphic and word mark that has been used to market Brandon successfully for many years.

“Ultimately, the sign size coupled with its impactful, but timeless design conveys to the motoring public that Brandon is a vibrant, full-service urban centre,” said Sandy Trudel, Brandon’s director of economic development earlier this year.

Trudel said the linked “D” and “O” in the word “Brandon” symbolizes the sense of belonging that is the “most common reason people site for staying or returning to Brandon.”

“It speaks to the importance of community, family and support for one another and the fact that we are stronger together,” she said.

In total, six signs are being constructed by Ontario-based KING Architectural Products and installed by Brandon’s own Cardinal Signs in ditches adjacent to the roadways.

Standing about 12 feet high, signs will be placed near Kemnay on Highway 1A, on Veterans Way and both north and south of the city on Highway 10.

The two larger signs will stand about 20 feet tall and will be located on the Trans-Canada Highway, east and west of Brandon. According to the city, the remaining two signs will be shipped in the near future.

http://www.brandonsun.com/local/new-city-welcome-signs-arrive-176401871.html

THE Selinger government will soon unveil a new strategy for modernizing and ensuring environmental protection of the province's parks.

The plan will be one of the first concrete proposals to come out of the government's Tomorrow Now master plan, which was released in June.

Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh said the parks blueprint will also spell out ways to make them more attractive.

"The parks strategy will be proposed within the next two months for feedback over the winter," Mackintosh said Monday.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/protection-plan-for-parks-expected-soon-176373311.html

WESTJET'S new regional air service could include flights between Winnipeg and Saskatchewan's two biggest cities, Regina and Saskatoon, the Winnipeg Airports Authority's top executive said Monday.

"I'm certain Winnipeg will see some benefits from the launch of that service," Barry Rempel said in an interview.

Included on the WAA's wish list are regular flights to the two Saskatchewan cities, Rempel said, noting Air Canada is the only carrier that offers that service at the moment.

Brandon, which also has been lobbying hard for WestJet regional service, should have a good shot at getting it, he said.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/winnipeg-should-get-new-flights-airport-exec-176373621.html

For roughly 25 years, Vulcan has been clinging to its bond with Star Trek as being the home of Spock — relying on it to bring people to the southern Alberta town.

But town Coun. Judy Sanderson says it's no longer enough.

"It's stagnant, hate to say that, like every other small Prairie town, not moving ahead,” Sanderson explained. “[The town] needs something to kick forward."

That kick is a rebranding plan that will build on the Star Trek theme.

The goal is to make Vulcan the most technologically-advanced rural town in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/10/28/calgary-vulcan-changes.html

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Storm Troopers, cyborgs, superheroes and other comic-book fans can count on their annual pilgrimage to San Diego for another four years.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced Monday that Comic-Con has extended its contract with the city through 2016. It had been set to expire in 2015.

The pop-culture convention draws 130,000 visitors from around the world and contributes more than $180 million to the city's economy, Sanders said.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/comic-con-extends-its-contract-with-san-diego-convention-to-stay-in-town-through-2016-176348231.html

NEW YORK, N.Y. - As Superstorm Sandy churned slowly inland, millions along the U.S. East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, and huge swaths of New York City were unusually dark and abandoned. At least 17 people were killed in seven states.

The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph (130 kph) sustained winds cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio and put the presidential campaign on hold one week before Election Day.

(A complete article published originally in the WFP, Oct.  '57)

Hon. F. L. Jobin seems to think that Jack Blick is counting his acres before they're hatched. Mr. Jobin, provincial minister of industry and commerce, denied Wednesday that the provincial government had promised 4.000 acres of tax-free land as prizes to American tourists. Mr. Jobin was commenting on a proposition put forward at the recent Canadian Tourist association meeting by Mr. Blick, of Winnipeg, director of the association, and chairman of the Industrial Development Board of Greater Winnipeg. Mr. Blick's plan was lo offer, in one-acre plots, thousands of acres of Canadian land to American radio and TV stations, magazines and newspapers to be used as tax-free prizes in contests. He wanted to attract Americans and their money to Canada’s less populated areas. He said that he had already the promise of 4,000 acres of land from the Manitoba government. At the convention in Ottawa, he suggested that 99 year leases would go with the Manitoba land, but said nothing about mineral and oil rights. Canadian Tourist association organizing secretary Robert Kelly said Tuesday that he understands the Manitoba land is in varying parcels in the Whiteshell area and is all “first class land with plenty of hunting and fishing nearby. Mr. Jobin said that the idea of j the provinces putting up land to attract tourists was worthy of consideration — "but serious consideration it must be." He said that I there would be no thought of giving away land in the Whiteshell in any case. Even Manitoba residents have to bid for plots there. "It is true that Mr. Blick did discuss the proposition with me, but at best I always considered the discussions on a purely preliminary basis, and certainly to the best of my knowledge the proposition never went any farther in governmental circles. "Therefore it is not totally correct that Manitoba has promised 4,000 acres of land for the project," he said. He said that he approved investigation of the idea, for it was from "such ideas and initiative that progress was made." However, he thought the current idea may not be the best and would hope that in discussions on the matter "some more suitable promotional scheme may be forthcoming.'