This year, the 17th Annual Double B Rodeo & Country Fair will be held on September 10, 11, and 12, 2010 at the CPTC Raceplex in Beausejour. Festivities include: Friday Ranch Rodeo and Midway starting at 6:00 pm Saturday Pancake Breakfast at 8:00, Parade at 10:00, Chore Team at 1:00 Old Time Thrashing Demo at [...]
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Shades of the Past rolls in …
2010/08/12 – 9:10 am
A really delightful outdoor event we have each year in Beausejour is the Shades of the Past car show, August 29th, from 10 am to 3pm. Park Avenue is taken over with every imaginable vintage car rolling in to town to fill it up. Lots more than cars of course, but you’ll have to come [...]
get by with a little help from your friends …
2010/07/25 – 10:37 am
Town Radio Beausejour is coming up on a year old. We launched during Shades of the Past last year, and I guess I’m thinking of that day as our anniversary. We’ll be on hand during the Shades of the Past to chat with folks. Feel free to stop by our trailer beside the Town Office. [...]
Heritage Day
2010/07/22 – 9:29 am
Every year, we have a really delightful event here in Beausejour. Our community has a rich history that is still preserved at the Pioneer Village in the old buildings and equipment. The annual Heritage Day is the perfect opportunity to not only relive the past as you walk around the old buildings from your past, [...]
bomb threat rant
2010/05/07 – 1:54 pm
You want to know what sucks? Receiving a bomb threat to your school, and having to enact emergency measures to evacuate everyone. You want to know what sucks even more? This happening again. And what do you think might suck even more than that? I think you know where I’m going with this. Less than [...]
New Program Sponsor for the Old Time Radio Show
2010/04/28 – 8:11 am
Town Radio Beausejour is pleased to announce Sobering Funeral Chapel as our new sponsor for the Old Time Radio Show. If you love old time radio, tune in at 9 pm, Sunday to Thursday. If you have an old favourite, let us know what it is, and we’ll do our best to get and play it. [...]
World’s Largest Social
2010/04/25 – 11:39 am
From April 27th to May 16th, Town Radio is promoting the Worlds Largest Social. It’s happening at the Sun Gro Centre on May 15, 2010. The event is part of Manitoba Homecoming and all proceeds will go toward building an outdoor skating rink to compliment Beausejour and Brokenhead’s recreational infrastructure. Come for the live bands, fantastic prizes, [...]
Community Awards
2010/04/17 – 11:37 am
The community awards happen April 22nd. Each year, it’s a chance for local folks to nominate and recognize the great work volunteers do for their community. Come to the awards ceremony and give them the applause they deserve. Like Unlike
Looking forward to spring
2010/03/01 – 1:18 pm
since it’s March and all. I had some fun making recordings of folks while they were displaying their goods at the Spring Craft Show. I used some studio quality portable recording equipment to do that, and then it was a matter of editing and getting it on the air. It was really noisy at the [...]
The Gift of the Magi
2009/12/18 – 12:00 pm
This is my favourite Christmas story. It’s actually one of my favourites stories of any type. I won’t say why. I’ll let you discover the reason for yourself. -Lane “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one [...]