Here are some of my favorites from 2006:
The first regular scheduled passenger jet in four years, lands at the Brandon Municipal Airport on Wednesday Jan. 4, 2006. The Air Transat Holidays charter flight is headed to Cancun, Mexico with 40 people from Brandon aboard.
Team Japan competes in the 'D' Final (for 7th/8th place) against Germany in the Men's speed skating team pursuit during Day 6 of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games on February 16, 2006 at Pragelato Plan in Turin, Italy. Japan went on to win the race and place 7th overall.
American supporters brave the low temperatures and heavy snow fall during the two-man bobsleigh final on Day 9 of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games on February 19, 2006 in Cesana Pariol, Italy.
Spectators reach out from the stands to touch Katie Weatherston’s gold medal while Gillian Apps, left, and Gina Kingsbury, right, celebrate after defeating Sweden 4-1 in the women’s ice hockey gold medal match on Day 10 of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games on February 20, 2006 at the Palasport Olimpico, Turin, Italy.
Nicole Reich of Switzerland walks the halls of the Munot, a 500-year-old fortification overlooking Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Members of the Boissevain Border Kings celebrate in their locker room after defeating the Souris Elks 6-4 during the Southwest Hockey Leauge championship game at Murray Arena in Souris on Friday Mar. 17, 2006.
Noted Canadian author and broadcaster Stuart McLean signs copies of his award winning book Vinyl Cafe at Pennywise Books on Monday Apr. 3, 2006. McLean was in town to perform his live Vinyl Cafe show at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium.
Lindsay Baxter, left to right, Marisa Fordyce, and Sam Boychuk take a picture of themselves prior to their convocation ceremony on Friday June 23, 2006. Baxter, Fordyce and Boychuk were among the 186 students graduating from Vincent Massey High School.
Samantha Lantice, 12, participates in the mud race during the Wallace and District Fire Department's second annual Mud Bog in Virden on Sunday July 16, 2006. A water bottle containing a $20 bill was placed in the middle of the mud pit and the first to get to the bottle got to keep the money.
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 on 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 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 in Brandon on Friday Aug. 25, 2006.
Residence assistant Ian Healey listens as his girlfriend Tennille Slimmons whispers in his ear in Healey's Mcmaster Hall residence room on Tuesday Sept. 5, 2006. Healy was holding a pre-party prior to a social at the university bar SUDS.
A girl screams during a performance by the Canadian kings of scream rock, Alexisonfire, at the Manitoba Room in the Keystone Centre in Brandon on Monday Sept. 18, 2006.
Kim Holland, of Pantages on Park Salon and Spa, won the Wella Trend Vision national finals in Montreal last weekend for excellence in hair cutting and styling in Brandon on Friday Sept. 29, 2006. Holland will represent Canada at the international contest in Milan, Italy this November.
A group of Brandon youth, take shots of alcohol, while some choose to chat on instant messenger another lies passed out on the couch at a party after Brandon University's 80's social, held at SUDS, at one of the youth's homes in Brandon during the early morning of Saturday September 30, 2006.
A Brandon firefighter sprays absorbent foam at the scene of a single semi-trailer accident on Monday Oct. 23, 2006. The semi rolled rolled onto its side after veering into the gravel shoulder approximately four kilometres east of the intersection of Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 110. There were no injuries, but traffic was tied up for several hours.
A spectator uses binoculars to watch the B.C. Lions play the Montreal Alouettes during the 94th Grey Cup at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg on Sunday Nov. 19, 2006.
Members of the Brandon School of Dacne participate in the dress rehersal of their upcoming performance of the Nutcracker at the Brandon School of Dance studio on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006.
A man dressed as Santa Claus rides on a Wiggle Car in a raquet ball court while waiting to enterain children at the Swim n' skate with Santa at the Sportsplex in Brandon on Sunday Dec. 17, 2006.
People walk along the beach as the sunsets in Negril, Jamaica on Monday Dec. 25, 2006.
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