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 2:11 a.m.

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and down
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and in the
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At play, and
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 The day was
October 7, 2010.
8:59 a.m.
It was a Thursday. It dawned clear
Brandon Sun carrier
and cool, then warmed up nicely
Matt Darvil delivers
for midafternoon.
the morning paper
on the North Hill.
Your 43,000 neighbours spent that
• Bruce Bumstead day as they usually do: they went to
school; they worked; they played;
they lived.

Among them were three Brandon

Sun photographers. In shifts, Bruce
Bumstead, Colin Corneau and Tim
Smith fanned out to document a
single 24-hour period in the life of
11:49 a.m. Brandon.
Evelyn Meadus
writes lunch specials Coordinated by Matt Goerzen and
on the chalkboard laid out by Grant Hamilton, who
of Newfie’s Café. also shot video throughout the day,
• Colin Corneau this project shows just a small por-
tion of the life that bustles in — and
above — our city.

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Isaac Girardin, a fire own.
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to create a large when we examined a typical day in
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• Tim Smith

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 DAY
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LIFE

12:06 a.m.
Matt Blair makes a
shot while playing
pool with friends at
the Keystone Motor
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of Thursday.
• Tim Smith

12:28 a.m. Brandon University Bobcats basketball player 12:47 a.m. Set up for an all-nighter, third-year math major
Isaiah James exchanges text messages with his Tessa Geurts of Innisfail, Alta., crams for a morn-
• Tim Smith • Tim Smith
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 DAY
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LIFE

2:10 a.m.
Solomon Yilma, taxi driver
and part owner of Sunset
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while waiting for a fare.

Yilma, originally from

Ethiopia, was working a
12-hour shift from 5 p.m.
until 5 a.m.
• Tim Smith

3:38 a.m. McKean speaks to a disoriented

3:27 a.m. Const. Alice McKean with the Brandon Police male found wandering Brandon at
• Tim Smith
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• Tim Smith
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 DAY
in the
LIFE

6:46 a.m.
Bryan Hay jogs along
10th Street in the dark
prior to sunrise. Hay
typically runs six miles
every morning.
• Tim Smith

6:16 a.m.
Jody Buhler rolls and cuts cinna-
mon buns at the Blue Hills Bakery
& Deli on Richmond Avenue. The
bakers begin each day at 5 a.m.
• Tim Smith

6:37 a.m.
Buhler and bak-
ery owner Tillie
Waldner make
rolls as part of
their baking for
the day.
5:46 a.m. John Longo, kitchen supervisor at the Husky
• Tim Smith
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• Tim Smith
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 8:37 a.m.
John Moroz helps Wade DAY
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Donovan funeral home.
LIFE
• Colin Corneau

8:17 a.m.
The early morning sun bathes
Brandon Flying Club flight
instructor Markus Seitter as
he pilots a Cessna 172 over
Brandon at sunrise. Seitter
has racked up more than
2,000 hours of flight time.

At right, first light illuminates

trees reaching out from a
residential neighbourhood as
seen from above.
• Tim Smith

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 9:26 a.m.
DAY Dr. Qing Yun Ye works
in the with a patient at her
LIFE downtown clinic.
• Colin Corneau

9:17 a.m.
Scott Corrigan takes
his pet ferret Kitty-Kitty
out for a morning walk
along Rosser Avenue.
• Bruce Bumstead

9:02 a.m.
Brandon Sun
carrier Matt
Darvil delivers
the morning
paper on the
North Hill.
• Bruce Bumstead 9:21 a.m. Andrew Lane’s Chesapeake Bay retriever noses
the camera from a van window at at stop along
• Bruce Bumstead
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 DAY
in the
10:49 a.m. LIFE
Ginny Church works
on a customer’s hair
at Vigi Salon.
• Colin Corneau

10:44 a.m.
Dan Dobbie, of
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Painters, puts a
coat of paint on
the bell spire at
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Church on 11th • Bruce Bumstead
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• Bruce Bumstead mural at Chicken
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 DAY 10:04 a.m.
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LIFE during the sunny morning.
• Colin Corneau

10:12 a.m. Kyle Wedlake prepares the pool table for another
day of business at the Double Decker Tavern.
• Colin Corneau

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• Bruce Bumstead
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 DAY
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11:27 a.m. Susan Olson Merrick practices yoga in Eleanor

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• Colin Corneau

11:36 a.m.
Chloe Worthington 11:32 a.m. Canadian Pacific Rail-
poses for a photo- way workers maintain
• Bruce Bumstead
graph by her mother a section of track in
Kirsten in Eleanor the rail yard east of
Kidd Park. First Street.
• Colin Corneau

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 DAY DAY
in the 11:42 a.m. A cyclist makes her
in the
LIFE • Colin Corneau
way up Ninth Street by LIFE
the Crystal Hotel.

11:49 a.m.
Evelyn Meadus
writes lunch
specials on the
chalkboard
of Newfie’s Café.

11:44 a.m.
Dwayne Meadus
looks at the
next order up in
the kitchen at
Newfie’s.

11:50 a.m. 11:52 a.m.

A man digs into Students share a
lunch at the
11:31 a.m. Canadian Pacific Railway laugh at English
workers maintain a sec- 11:52 a.m. language classes,
café, in the • Bruce Bumstead
tion of track in the rail held in the former
Crystal Hotel. English teacher Elena Dupuis hands out
yard east of First Street. Convergys building.
an assignment to her students with the
Westman Immigrant Services’ classes in • Bruce Bumstead
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• Colin Corneau
• Bruce Bumstead

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 DAY 12:16 p.m. Ed Halibiski rests a mo-
ment among hundreds
in the • Colin Corneau
of empty bottles and
LIFE cans that await recycling
at the City Centre beer
vendor.

12:16 p.m. Halibiski unloads empty bottles from inside 12:29 p.m. Wendy Enns works to sort the mail at the
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• Colin Corneau • Bruce Bumstead

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 1:12 p.m. DAY
Cyndie Hunt-Reid works with a fierce Halloween
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• Colin Corneau LIFE

1:18 p.m.
A man wheels his
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• Colin Corneau

1:43 p.m. Wheat Kings head coach Kelly McCrimmon reviews the 1:48 p.m. Wheaities captain Shayne
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• Bruce Bumstead • Bruce Bumstead
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 2:02 p.m.
DAY From left: Tian Yu Wang, Tian
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LIFE Wang pose in their Meadows
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don last year from China’s
Shandong province and are
now fluently bilingual.
• Colin Corneau

2:36 p.m.
Laun Brown, level 3 apprentice machinist
at Atom Jet Industries, works at shaping
an aluminum industrial fitting on a lathe.
2:38 p.m.
Brandon Humane
Society volunteer
Mickey Bereza
cradles one of
the cats looking
for homes at the
city’s east end,
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• Colin Corneau
2:43 p.m.
CNC (computer numerical controlled)
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• Bruce Bumstead

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• Colin Corneau

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 DAY
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Craig Emery checks
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inside his backyard
coop, builtpoi on the
top level of his First
Street garage.
• Bruce Bumstead

4:25 p.m.
Artist Weiming Zhao works on a painting
in his south end neighbourhood. Zhao
has produced at least one oil painting
a day for more than four years, and has
had many exhibitions of his work.
• Colin Corneau

4:38 p.m.
Drew Caldwell carries a roll of paper
through the main hall of the Strand
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• Colin Corneau

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LIFE

6:55 p.m.
Veterinarian Dr.
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greets a young
client at a Brandon
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6:47 p.m. Bernie Whetter leads the Knox United clinic open house.
Church choir during a rehearsal. • Colin Corneau
• Colin Corneau

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Faiez Alani kneels during evening prayers.
• Colin Corneau

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 DAY
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LIFE

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Callum Greenwood looks
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Brandon University.
• Colin Corneau

9:10 p.m. Greenwood checks out some of the images 9:30 p.m. Dr. Tyler Foster shows students how to access
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• Colin Corneau • Colin Corneau
 10:08 p.m.
Fire dancer Lynette Didur, with The Jester & The Gypsy, DAY
spins flaming poi to create a colourful pattern while in the
practicing her skills in the east end of Brandon.
• Tim Smith
LIFE

10:29 p.m. Natalie Bohrn on bass, Brady

Allard on drums and Tim
• Colin Corneau 11:18 p.m.
Hodge on saxophone take the
stage at SUDS lounge for the Dancers under a spray
weekly jazz night at Brandon of soapy foam and an
University. explosion of light and
sound end the day at
Houstons nightclub.
• Colin Corneau
11:13 p.m.
Bubbles and foam coated the dance
floor at Houstons as the nightclub
hosted a foam party.
• Tim Smith

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 One last look.

9:17 a.m. Scott Corrigan holds his pet ferret Kitty-Kitty while
out for a morning walk along Rosser Avenue.
• Bruce Bumstead

9:17 a.m.
10:28 p.m. Natalie Bohrn on bass, Brady Allard on drums and Dr. Qing Yun Ye works with a patient at
Tim Hodge on saxophone jazz it up at Brandon her downtown Brandon clinic.
• Colin Corneau
University’s SUDS lounge. • Colin Corneau
 8:21 a.m.
Water is agitated in
ponds near Brandon’s
east end, as seen from
the air.
• Tim Smith

10:09 p.m.
Fire dancer
Lynette Didur
bends over
backwards
while spinning
flaming poi to
create colourful
patterns.
• Tim Smith

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• Bruce Bumstead
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 This is what we did with three photographers.
What could we do with three hundred? Or three thousand?
Let’s find out — on Sunday, November 7, 2010.

6:39 p.m. 1:27 a.m. 1:44 p.m.

Choir practice at Knox United Church is A lone apartment is lit up in a Wheaton King listens to instructions from
framed by stained glass windows. dark section of the Scotia Towers. head coach Kelly McCrimmon.
• Colin Corneau • Tim Smith • Bruce Bumstead

It’s your turn.

You have a camera, right? Get it ready for Sunday, November 7, 2010.
If it’s happening that day, take some pictures for us. Take some video. Take a chance on something different.
Email your photos and videos from that day to dayinthelife@brandonsun.com
Tell us what’s going on in them. We’ll show them online, and the best will be printed in the Brandon Sun.

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