Westman this Week
1 minute read Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024
Brandon artist Anne Boychuk works on a Christmas themed window mural for Extendicare Hillcrest Place in Brandon. Boychuk’s window murals can be spotted throughout the wheat city. Earlier this month, Boychuk led grades 11 and 12 painting students at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School in painting window murals at the school. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
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5 minute read Preview Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024Need is up, donations are down, yet Cheer is in the air
5 minute read Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024Requests for help to the Brandon and Westman Christmas Cheer are up this year, but donations are down, including both in cash and in donated toys and food. And according to board chair Myrna Lane it may have as much to do with the Canada Post strike as it does with people’s ability to donate.
“People have been used to making donations through the mail,” Lane said, “and you know, with the strike that has changed the way that people can donate to us. And we realize and understand that with the economy the way it is, we understand that people aren’t donating.”
As of Dec. 1, the group had raised $29,997 (based on a list of both public and anonymous donors), representing just under 33 per cent of its $92,000 goal.
Christmas Cheer treasurer Bob Walberg told the Sun on Dec. 6 that it was unclear at that point exactly how much donations are down this year, but would have a fuller picture by that Sunday.
Rooting Pierson’s future
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5 minute read Preview Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024Steppin’ Time’s Nutcracker Reimagined brings a modern twist to a festive classic
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5 minute read Preview Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024Judge, Ohtani should be automatic MVPs
5 minute read Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024Despite average or subpar performances in the World Series, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees are almost guaranteed to be announced as their leagues’ respective Most Valuable Players.
Voting for all baseball awards takes place immediately following the end of the regular season, so performance in the post-season is not a factor. For Judge, that was important, given the Yankees’ centre-fielder had a horrendous post-season at the plate and then made one of the most important errors in the decisive game that led to a Dodgers’ win that clinched the Series in five.
Over the 162-game regular season, though, Judge was awesome. He produced a Wins Above Replacement (WAR) figure of 10.8, the only major leaguer in double figures. (WAR is a relatively new stat, measuring a player’s value to a team by comparing their performance to that of a replacement-level player). Judge belted 58 homers, drove in a league-best 144 runs, walked a league-high 133 times and produced an OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging) of 1.159, the best of his career.
Judge will be a unanimous winner, giving him his second MVP award (2022 was his first) and the Yankees might have given the Dodgers a better fight in the World Series had the nine-year veteran hit in the World Series at a similar pace. In the post-season pitchers had his number. Some of his ugly October numbers include three home runs in 14 games, a batting average of .184 and an OPS of .762.
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