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Looking Back -- June 11, 2012

By: Cathy Arthur

Monday, Jun. 18, 2012 | Comments: 0

In 2002: Search for missing teen intensifies -- no clues

SIXTY YEARS AGO

A serious infestation in wheat, oats, barley and flax by cutworms has thinned, but a number of fields in the Brandon area and southern Manitoba have been devastated.

A federal ban on the movement of livestock imposed following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was lifted today.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The Minors, from Winkler, consisting of Johnny Friesen, Randy Peters, Johnny Pauls and George Sawatzky, were named regional champions in the novice Barber Shop Quartet competition held in the Vincent Massey High School auditorium.

Melba Maxwell, presently employed as lab technician at the Brandon General Hospital, has accepted a three-year appointment as part of a TB survey team in Korea under the sponsorship of the United Church Board of Foreign Missions.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Jimmy Doyle of Winnipeg Elmhurst was the winner over the weekend at the 1972 Grey Owl golf tournament at Wasagaming.

Effective July 1, there will no longer be Sunday bus service in the city.

A social biology course, with a video tape format, will be prepared for northern communities by Brandon University. Dr. Evan Pepper, professor of botany, will prepare the course.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Israel blasted PLO targets in Beirut from the sea and air today and dropped leaflets warning that Israeli forces were about to storm the Lebanese capital and that Syrian troops should leave within a few hours. Israeli Radio said U.S. President Ronald Reagan had sent a message to Prime Minister Menachem Begin demanding that Israel halt the fighting.

There were 188 farm bankruptcies in the first five months of this year, an increase of 60 per cent over the same period in 1981.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

A small hepatitis outbreak at Virden Collegiate has prompted the school to introduce a range of precautions intended to ensure the virus doesn’t spread to more students.

Mike Gagne was the first customer at Brandon’s Provincial Exhibition to lay down the $79 fee and dive from 150 feet in the air with a rubber cord tied around his ankles. Gagne’s freefall marked the arrival of bungee jumping to this part of the world.

TEN YEARS AGO

The search for missing Brandon teen Erin Chorney intensified last night as 170 people combed fields and wooded areas east of Crocus Plains high school. However, they failed to uncover any clues to her disappearance. Chorney, 18, was last seen about midnight April 21 near Crocus Plains.

City council made two moves last night to spur housing construction. For the first time in at least 25 years, the city wants to absorb the cost of infrastructure like water and sewer lines for new homes and recoup the money from those homeowners’ taxes for the next 20 years. “We’re breaking new ground with the city,” said John Burgess, a partner in Waverly Developments which is planning 24 new homes over three years on Cornwallis Bay. In exchange, the developer agrees to keep prices lower than $140,000.

Workers at McKenzie Seeds are being asked for wage concessions to smooth the sale of the 105-year-old company. United Food and Commercial Workers Union will present the concessions to the company’s 150 workers for ratification as early as this month. Along with worker concessions, the management-led group is negotiating a $3-million repayable loan from the Doer government and a loan from current owners MDC Corp., provincial sources confirmed. A final sale is likely to be announced next month.

Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 18, 2012

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