Tag: Healthy Living Centre

BRANDON, MB – Brandon University (BU) is pleased to announce the creation of a new scholarship for female athletes, through a $10,000 gift by BU alumnus Brian Pallister, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba and Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fort Whyte.
Brian Pallister, Dr. Deborah Poff and Bobcats
The Pallister Women’s Athletic Scholarship will be awarded to a member of one of the Bobcats Women’s teams on the basis of athletic promise.

Brandon University’s Healthy Living Centre (HLC) is profiled in a pair of television ads commissioned by Manitoba Hydro, to air on CBC, Global and YouTube.
The HLC, a state-of-the-art fitness and wellness centre which opened in November 2012, was designed to rigid environmental standards, earning a Silver rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a buildings code reflecting resource efficiency that has been adopted in more than 30 countries around the world.

BRANDON, MB – A new Sports Wall of Fame will be unveiled this weekend at Brandon University (BU), named in honour of two long-time University supporters and community builders.
Mr. Dick and Mrs. Verda McDonald are BU alumni who first met on campus in the 1950s, married, and raised three sons in Brandon.

BRANDON, MB – Westman native son Henry Champ will be posthumously honoured by Brandon University (BU) this Thursday, when a campus gymnasium is renamed for the late journalist during a ceremony with family, friends and members of the public.
The Henry Champ Gymnasium, first opened in 1965, has been home to four Canadian university national championship teams.