Photograph By Thompson Citizen photos by John Barker and Jeanette Kimball Garson Manitoba's Select Shows has been bringing their midway to Nickel Days for years. A family-run business, it was started after Robert Mills retired from the Winnipeg Police in 1969. A few months later he met up with an old army buddy, who asked him to sell tickets for his five-ride carnival. Later in the fall of 1969, three rides were for sale for $1,600 from a fellow in Minnedosa - a 20-foot Ferris wheel, a swing ride and a car ride - as well as a small generator and a cotton candy machine. The rest is history, and today, 45 years later, Jim Mills, his youngest son, wife Michele, along with their sons, Eric and Cory, and their daughter Ashley, operate Select Shows.