Welcome to the Home Page of the Pollnick Family

You can find some information about our family in German and in English. If you want to contact us, here you can find out how. We also show many pictures of us (mostly of our kids) in our picture galleries.
You want to know how the weather is in Brandon? It's as easy as pie. Click either on the weather button or check out the Livecam, giving you a view of the junction 18th Street and Park Avenue over top Rogers video rental, Dairy Queen onto the Leech Place (still offline for now). If you want to read the latest local news or see more pictures of Brandon, click on some of the posted links, like "brandon.com" or "Brandon Sun" in the menu bar and read what's happening in our city.
If you want to hear some live radio of one of our 5 local radio stations, click on the "StarFM" or "101.1 The Farm" icon and enjoy the streamed music.
And if you are interested in alternative energy, check out my projects and follow up on the level of development.

Due to the way I programmed the homepage I recommend using only browsers like Firefox or Chrome. Internet Explorer will not render the page properly as soon as you use the sidebar and I just don't have the time to make all my coding IE compatible. Just go with the flow and download one of the better and faster browsers.

Enjoy

A view down Portage Avenue in Winnipeg Courtesy:www.cbc.ca	Views around Portage Avenue and downtown in Winnipeg Courtesy:www.ctv.ca
The best view of the wonderful architecture of our Legislature is viewed in the morning hours, as the morning sun provides excellent lighting.

Wheather Highlight! "Twister" over Brandon (June 15. 2004)!

Think you're living safe on the Prairies? Think again!
The funnel cloud did some minor damage in the south of Brandon but lost it's "touch" to the ground when crossing over the city.
Heavy rain and hail accompanied the funnel cloud. A second funnel cloud did some damage west of Brandon. Pictures are courtesy of Shane Maximshuk & Garry Wallace.

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It's just one year past the last twister and Brandon gets flooded! (July 7. 2005)

Just as the melting waters of last winter's snow seem to dissepate and Farmers can finally work on their soil, the city and surrounding area gets hammered by one of the biggest rain storms ever to hit Brandon. Within three hours of blistering rain Thursday night, the city has been covered with nearly four inches of rain (100 mm). A number of intersections including 18th and Richmond, 1st and Richmond, 10th and Victoria, 26th and Pacific and some lesser trafficed areas were turned into temporary lakes. The traffic lights in the busiest intersection in town, 18th and Victoria, went out. Authorities were forced to shut down 18th and Richmond as well as 1st and Richmond. The surrounding area (between Tilsten & Reston and nearby Pierson) got hit by Tornadoes. Winds in the city reached over 100km/hr. While residences directly situated at Richmond and 1st Street ended up with flooded Basements, our house, less than a block away from first street, had been spared and stayed absolutely dry. Even our roof withstood the storm and didn't allow a drop of water to come through. Thank God! As we were watching the lightning and the streaming waters, we didn't even realize the size of the downpoor and the flood just next door to us. So we didn't bother of documenting the event. Therefore all of the pictures and film clips posted here are pulled off from other web pages (i.e. http://www.ebrandon.ca) or have been emailed to me.

The NASR decided to take a media stop in Brandon this year. It was a perfect sunny and warm day and of course I had to be there to see the vehicles up close. My kids came with me to see the spectacle and maybe learn a little bit about enviro-friendly technology. Although they didn't really understand the technology behind it, they got a good basic idea of how the cars are running. And that was my main goal. Out of the 18 teams were 3 from Canada. The remaining teams were all from the US. One of the Canadian teams - Red River College (in Winnipeg)- run actually the first time. Despite all the problems they encountered, the team was able to finish 16th (nearly 117 hours). That was quite an achivement. The winner of the race was the University of Michigan. Finishing the race in just under 54 hours. The fastest Canadian team was the University of Waterloo ranking fifth with 57.44 hours. The pictures are a mix of my shots and images pulled of the Internet (i.e. http://www.ebrandon.ca, http://www.nasc2005.americansolarchallenge.org).