Sunday, September 10, 2006

PIKE - "IT'S ALREADY COLD IN MANITOBA"!

Summer has abruptly ended out here in the prairies, with temperatures at night already hitting a low of 0 C WITH FROST!

Here is a few from the last couple weeks of summer in Brandon . . . let me know what you think


-PIKE-


Team Alberta Red Deer Stags' Benjamin Herman hits a single off of Peter Sonier of Team Nova Scotia Dartmouth Moosehead Dry during 2006 Senior AAA National Championships round robin play at Westbran Stadium on Friday Aug. 25, 2006.

Master Cpl. Jeffrey Walsh's widow, Julie, kisses the head of her infant son Benjamin during a memorial service to honor her husband at CFB Shilo, just east of Brandon, Man. Friday Aug. 25, 2006. Walsh, a member of the second battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was killed in an accidental shooting near Kandahar, Afghanistan on Aug. 9, 2006.
Soliders bow there heads during a prayer at a memorial service to honor Master Cpl. Jeffrey Walsh at CFB Shilo, just east of Brandon, Man. Friday Aug. 25, 2006. Walsh, a member of the second battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was killed in an accidental shooting near Kandahar, Afghanistan on Aug. 9, 2006.
Team New Brunswick's Moncton Mets celebrate after defeating Team Saskatchewan's Saskatoon Yellow Jackets 2-0 during the 2006 Senior AAA National Championship game at Westbran Stadium in Brandon, Man. on Sunday Aug. 27, 2006.

Megan Williams, 3, right, pretends to check Logan Begalke's, 18 months, heart after a press conference where Brandon East MLA Drew Caldwell announces that specialized training for those who work closely with parents and children will soon be available in Brandon like it is elsewhere in the province at Elspeth Reid family resource centre on Monday Aug. 28, 2006.

Nick Dietrich of Deloraine takes a hard fall off the slider during a jam session at the Silver Summer Wakefest at Dinsdale Park in Brandon on Saturday Aug. 5, 2006.


A member of the Killarney Turtle Mountain Fire Department takes a drink of water at the scene of a two-vehicle collision between a semi-trailer and a pickup truck on Provincial Road 443 approximately two kilometres east of Ninga on Monday Aug. 14, 2006. The 32-year-old man who was driving the pickup truck was taken to hospital in Boissevain, where he was pronounced dead, Boissevain RCMP reported last night.

Clay Cochrane lifts his son Avery, 4, to compare his arm span to that of 6' 8'' NBA star Lebron James who has an arm span of two metres during the NBA Cares Tour that stopped at the Wal-Mart parking lot at the Corral Centre in Brandon on Sunday Aug. 20, 2006. Participants enjoyed NBA style entertainment including music, video games and three basketball courts.


John Anderson, top, and Tim Palmer, contrators with Gord Turner Construction work on the new Boissevain town shop and fire hall near the town water treatment plant in Boissevain on Monday Aug. 14, 2006.

Shae Kokorudz, 16, of Brandon hits a 10 metre drop on his freeride mountain bike at the Tazmanian gravel pit in Brandon on Monday July 24, 2006. Kokorudz, a former AAA hockey player, who quit to pursue freeriding is ranked first in the province and is headed to Whistler, B.C. next week for a sponsorship scouting camp.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I really like the second last photo. The lines and shadows are wicked cool!
Carlos

10/9/06 7:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That baseball in the first shot is getting crushed. Ha! Nice one.

11/9/06 12:41 PM  
Blogger Brett Beadle said...

The lead off bat-on-ball shot is killer.

12/9/06 11:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I really like the soldiers during prayer - nice and moody.

dbc

15/9/06 9:31 AM  

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