Local Beausejour resident Colin Graves was inspired as he watched the rescue of the Chilean miners. He wrote and recorded One Man Out, and released a video to youtube.
Here is the interview I did when Colin when I was lucky enough to have him visit Town Radio.
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And here is the video and song.
Twice a year, Beausejour looks forward to the the Craft Show and Sale at the Brokenhead River Community Hall. The Christmas show in the fall is the big one, with over 60 tables. Friday, November 5th, it’s open 11 am to 8pm, and Saturday, November 6th, from 10 am to 5pm.
I’m going to be there again this year with my microphone to walk the floor and give you a little taste of what you’ll find. And speaking of tastes, it’s a great place to have lunch and dinner with all the great hot food prepared by volunteers. Bring your appetite!
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:
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Also on the grounds are:
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 down to see for yourself.
Shades of the Past marks our own one year anniversary. Town Radio will be there, beside the Town Office, and I’ll be on hand to chat with anyone who wants to learn about the station. I’ll probably pipe the music from the DJ booth over the air as I did last year. Hope to see you there!
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.
We hope to be able to continue with Town Radio long into the future. To do that, we’re probably going to need a little help from our friends. You might notice a “Friends” page along the top of this site. Folks interested in joining together to help shape what Town Radio becomes are invited to read that page, and join this committee. The role of this committee is to discuss and plan fund raising opportunities, and to help shape the programming heard on CKBJ-FM, in Beausejour, Manitoba.
We want to keep providing non-commercial, community based programming to Beausejour. Come and help us do that!
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, but it’s also the perfect time to reconnect with old friends and family as they all gather together on August 8th, 2010 for the annual Heritage Day. I think I can already smell that fresh bread from that beautiful stone oven.
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 a week later it’s happened a third time. Someone has yet again given a bomb threat to Edward Schreyer School.
So what happens? All the kids are loaded into buses. And they’re stuck there for hours until it’s time for them to go home. Parents can come to the Sun Gro Centre to sign out their child and take them home. There’s one problem with this. Parents aren’t easily notified this is even happening. It takes time.
So I thought to myself. Hey, I happen to be running a radio station. I’m going to try and spread the word. So parents, or grandparents or even friends of parents of children attending Edward Schreyer School, let them know they can go to the Sun Gro Centre to sign out their children and take them home. You have to go right inside to sign them out, and they’ll radio the buses to release them.
With that out of the way, I have something to say about the person sending in the bomb threats.
Grow up!
I can’t fathom how you gain from doing this. If you want out of school early on a Friday, there are better ways to get what you want that do not impact the entire student body and their families. Think for a moment what you’re doing. Let’s put aside the fact you’re scaring the willies out of everyone. There are special needs kids in that school who may not comprehend what is happening, and who may be impacted by a disruption in their routine and difficulty in assisting them through this. There may be special events planned in a classroom that won’t happen now, because during that time, the students were sitting on a bus. Parents and guardians are impacted because they have to take time off work to pick up their child rather than see them sit on a stuffy bus for hours. And do you think it’s fun to sit on a stuffy bus for hours? The lucky ones get to leave, the less lucky ones are not having fun. It’s cold today. There was no time to dress for the weather. I repeat. It’s not fun sitting on the bus. I can’t begin imagine what the school staff are going through to evacuate everyone safely and in an orderly fashion. Actually, I do have some idea, since it took a half hour to sign out and have my own child released. It’s controlled chaos at the sun gro as I write this.
And then there’s the fact you’re scaring the willies out of half the town. This kind of act takes a very small number of brain cells. It demonstrates a level of immaturity that puts you in the baby bottle and soother club. I know your friends know what you did. People like you need to brag. I’m aiming this plea directly at them. Dear friends of this immature troublemaker, rat this person out. We’ve all had enough!
And I’d like to have a round of applause to the staff at Edward Schreyer School who are rising above and beyond the call of duty to manage something that is very difficult to manage. They’re doing a terrific job. Our kids are in great hands. When you see them, thank them.
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.
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, and an evening full of fun. Tickets available from ticketmaster.
