Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ask about dynamics financial family of funds special no front or backed Load dynamic partners fund can Jar 613iodi Brandon Randon your weekly Southwest Manitoba news digest for Home delivery 7270527 or 7272451 August 1 Jeffrey Lewis Brandon Sun under new management the team of Eric Kwong Clara Miller and husband Ralph Miller intend to use their expansive Industry experience to put the hotel and restaurant Back on the new old glory dining room with a View by Jeffrey Lewis the Brandon Sun when the new owners took Over the bankrupt Switzer hotel and restaurant this they returned the 22 room Complex Back to its old nothing else but the North Hill inn seemed to fit the Clara Miller said we tried to find something with the word View in but that not a big Issue anymore because we Are sort of losing the she the once popular restaurant and hotel used to enjoy a spectacular View of the when it was built on the government Road allowance at the Edge of in the Early there was nothing Between the hotel and the lights of the City but the River at the Bottom of the but As the area has been developing the View now includes the rooftops and chimneys of the new Homes in not sorry about losing the View because its Nice to see this area devel she husband Ralph and partner Eric Kwong took Over the hotel july 15 and the Trio intend to use their expansive Industry experience to put the hotel Back on the Millers had been in the hotel business in Virden and Moose min for 20 years and were looking for a new venture when the Opportunity of own ing the familiar Brandon hotel we really we rent looking for any thing specifically of this it just seemed like too Nice of a location to be sitting she the Bra Crest drive hotel had been sitting empty since it was put into receivership in the hotel had changed hands several and had gone under several different incarnations Over the past decade but nothing had Ever really caught the new partners Are hoping to Chc offers online service the Brandon Sun b businesses and individuals can now get housing Market information and analysis on the inter the Canadian housing markets on line service was launched this week by Canada mortgage and housing and the conference Board of the service allows users to Access housing Market data in electronic form As soon As possible after it becomes reverse the trend and in been fairly Busy since they took Over the we took Over july 15 and we were renting rooms the same Miller construction Crews were in town at the same time As a belgian horse show and a gun show and a few other the no vacancy sign has been turned on several times this summer As the partners have witnessed the demand this City has for hotel rooms whenever there Are major events in the Miller said she now has to work out a plan to keep the rooms full when nothing is really going that my dilemma right she i have to work on building up a regular whether it be trav Elling salesmen or construction work keeping traffic going through the rooms is the Best thing for a hotel and restaurant she in addition to preliminary housing starts Chc press releases and reports will be including the National housing mortgage Market trends and Canadian housing information is categorized when the hotel is the business can expect at least half of the visitors will use the restaurant for lunch or keeping the restaurant full is the Kongs a food service manager and chef for 20 the restaurateur is now developing the menu and style for the dining room to open in mid sep the chef came from Calgary to get involved in the venture and is trying out different aspects of the menu in the hotels Coffee shop to get a taste of what people in this area Kwong feels the dining room with its expansive Glass windows is suited to the Middle aged Market out for a relaxing there Are already enough places in town for the younger he its not going to be for the very Kwong i think our goal is to have a Nice attractive dining Miller and stored by such categories As Urban vacancy rates and mortgage the web site address is end of the line for Souris station by Lynden Behm the Brandon Sun Souris a group of citizens is trying to keep the old up rail Sta Tion from being demolished or moved out of the station would be an excellent site for a railway says Dan chairman of the Souris up Sta Tion built when Souris was a major rail appears Well suited for a the building is one of the largest in Manitoba and the Only two Storey station outside of the Capi Tal Leskiw it is the Only other building with the same grandeur As the one in win Leskiw said this i just for the historical part of we can save this once upon a the Canadian Pacific railway kept the local Economy at one there were nearly 200 people working out of Souris including rail Yard and station the Roundhouse was a terminal for lines extending in various directions including the southwestern Saskatchewan Coal when diesel engines began replace what next the future of the railway station in Souris is Uncertain ing steam locomotives in the the size of train Crews dropped because manual such As shovelling of was Crews continued to dwindle until 1979 when the Souris terminal was the Brando Estevan line still operates but worker presence has virtually Digap six years an old railway caboose was moved to the downtown site which houses the Hillcrest and agricultural people wanting to save the old station Are hoping for a larger tribute to the rail Leskiw said an architect from the provincial historical resources office has looked at the building and the next step will Likely be to determine interest in development of a they will Contact various potential sources of including the Manitoba Doest have a railway museum and it is hoped Souris could become the site for he the committee was formed this summer because of fears the building could be the current Jerry Hodgson and Jeff want to unload the aging they the owners Are just holding off and waiting to see what will Hap Leskiw Hodgson said that during the last eight since he became an the building has Only been used for it never panned Hodgson we just want somebody to take it we Are not interested in putting any Money into he adding that the building currently was a liability to the we want out of it and if anybody has a passion for they Are More than there had also been some interest in moving the building to Brandon where it would be converted to a he the land surrounding the station is owned by the briefly Man drowns in night time boating Accident a Friendly boat ride turned tragic after a Man without a life jacket fell overboard at about Killarney ramp responded to a Call that a person had been lost overboard on Pelican Lake near the a no swim had fallen overboard while boat ing with two the friends immediately Dove in but were unable to reach the Man As he never surfaced the friends continued to search for him until dark and then returned to All search efforts had to be called off for the night due to darkness and extremely Low visibility in the search efforts resumed in the morn but due to the Low visibility in the police were forced to wait for the ramp dive team to arrive from shortly before after a Brief the dive team recovered the body of 47yearold Wayen Denton of the search was greatly aided by Denton friends presence of mind to place an anchored buoy on the location where they saw him an ramp release ramp Are continuing to investigate the incident and the attending medical examiner ordered an autopsy for this do not anticipate that any charges will be Pontiac popular with thieves Brandon police service is investigating the theft of two vehicles from the City saturday that ended up in Rural a police spokesman said the vehicles a 1986 Pontiac 6000 and a 1991 Pontiac sunbird were taken about the stolen from the 300 Block of fourth Street was recovered saturday morning at the taken from the 500 Block of fifth was later recovered in police believe the two cases May be Man charged in assault a Man has been charged with Domestic assault after police say he struck the victim in the face Fri Robert was arrested in connection with the incident on the 300 Block of eighth people killed in crash identified up two ontarian were among four people who died in a Headon collision Between a car and a truck in South Western Saskatchewan on William James of Alv and Violet of Mississauga died when their northbound car collided with a pickup truck heading South on Highway 39 about 10 Kilometres Southeast of Wey Harry Sigvart and his 78yearold wife both of Wey were also killed in the two passengers in the car were including William Browns and Violet Browns Gordon their conditions were not police were investigating the cause of the Council the Agenda City Council sits at a variation Board prior to holding its regular meeting Mon Day at on the second floor of 410 ninth Here is the Agenda in capsule Zed form variation Board hearing application 160 fourteenth Meyers Morris Penny communications of Churchill Churchill opportunities foundation delegations Laurene Henderson International Pickle fest september 6 7 reports of the whole accounts of the whole accounts unfinished business Pickle est september 6 and 7 downtown Brandon business improvement area water ski Channel widening Brandon 1997 Canada games of the Brandon Core area flood damage claim of 138 Mcvicar Crescent to Vanyper Enburg and Ryplansky data from report councillor Caldwell bylaws of 108 eighteenth to first Reading of 138 Mcvicar to Vanyper Enburg and three readings announcements committee of the whole meet ing immediately following the regular City Council meeting Bill 54 the municipal and various acts amendment act ;