BRANDON WHEAT KINGS

• Last season: 40-26-2-0, fifth in conference, ninth overall.

• General manager: Marty Murray (fifth season).

• Head coach: Marty Murray (fifth season).

Previous Brandon Wheat Kings home openers against the Saskatoon Blades.

2007-08

Brandon 5, Saskatoon 2

• Date: Sept. 21, 2007

A cyclist was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after she hit a truck in Dauphin on Monday, Mounties say.

Dauphin RCMP responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision involving a cyclist shortly before 5 p.m., RCMP said in a news release on Tuesday.

The incident occurred on the corner of Fourth Avenue Southwest and Main Street when a truck was turning right and was struck by a cyclist riding on the wrong side of the street, RCMP said.

The cyclist, 33, was taken to hospital and a 39-year-old woman who was driving the truck was uninjured, police said.

WINNIPEG — The province has launched its invasive species early detection response protocol after zebra mussel veligers, or larvae, have been found in Lake Winnipegosis and Waterhen Lake.

A local fisher reported zebra mussels attached to their boat in Lake Winnipegosis, the province said in a news release Monday.

Analysis of veliger samples taken before the fisher’s report found the larvae in both lakes, which will be monitored in the next few weeks to determine the severity of the invasions.

Anyone using either lake will be required to decontaminate their watercraft and any water-related equipment before entering another body of water.

WINNIPEG — As plans to expand the Port of Churchill into a four-season trade corridor gather momentum, a University of Manitoba researcher has published a report on what ship traffic could mean for the beluga whales that gather in the Churchill River estuary each summer.

Veronica Coppolaro said more vessels in the waterways bring a risk that belugas will stop using the estuary for migration, which would impact the ecological landscape, tourism and communities that rely on the animals for food and cultural purposes.

“There are studies showing that (noises) change the way they swim, they change the way (the whales) are vocalizing, they change their main activity, and so this (expansion) can have consequences at different levels,” she said.

The Churchill River estuary is a marine habitat where the Churchill River empties into Hudson Bay. During the summer months belugas gather in the area to feed and give birth.

SATURDAY

Wheat Kings 6, Warriors 2

First Period

1. Moose Jaw, Deichert 1 (Carter, Degenstein) 17:02.

WINNIPEG — Provincial workers have started to update or install safety measures at a rural Interlake intersection where four teenage friends died in a crash on the Labour Day weekend.

Pavement markings were repainted at Highway 8 and Provincial Road 229, just west of Winnipeg Beach, ahead of work to refresh worn-down rumble strips, starting Monday, and install flashing lights atop two stop signs, following an assessment earlier this week.

“They will also need to incorporate any information from the RCMP report that might be helpful if we were to consider any additional safety measures at this intersection,” Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor said of department staff.

“The most important thing is safety, and any kinds of changes we make at any intersection actually have to make it safer.”

DRONES HELP CLIMBER RESCUE

SQUAMISH — Two drones played key roles in the nighttime rescue of a climber stranded 77 metres up a British Columbia cliff face this week — one helping deliver a rope and the other lighting the way.

Squamish Search and Rescue says in a social media statement that the rescue happened Wednesday night on the famed Stawamus Chief some 60 kilometres north of Vancouver.

It says the climber became stranded on a climbing route known as the “Alaska Highway,” described by climbers community Mountain Project as a 167-metre climb with “an imposing system of overhanging corners and chimneys.”