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Looking Back -- June 19, 2012

By: Cathy Arthur

Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012 | Comments: 0

In 1982: Elevator at Eighth and Pacific coming down

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Kae Longrigg fired a 92 over her home city course to take the lead at the half-way mark of the city ladies golf championship.

President Harry Truman said today the United States will support Canada in building the St. Lawrence seaway despite senate rejection of direct U.S. participation in the project.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Dr. R.D. Bird of the Brandon Rifle Club was awarded the Expert Shield for his participation in the Dominion Marksmen’s Organization competition.

Sod was turned today, in a ceremony at First Presbyterian Church to start an expansion. The new addition will include a youth centre immediately north of the main church building.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Dan Halldorson qualified for the Peter Jackson Quebec Open with a two-over-par 73 score which was the third best score turned in by 130 golfers.

Howard G. McCrae of Brandon was installed senior grand warden at the 97th Communications of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba A.F. and A.M. held in the new Masonic Memorial Temple in Winnipeg.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Brandon’s skyline will be missing a familiar outline — Manitoba Pools’ A elevator at Eighth Street and Pacific Avenue is coming down piece by piece after being closed for more than a year. The elevator was built in 1928 with a capacity of 2,750 tonnes or 120,000 bushels.

The 100th Provincial Exhibition horse shows are hosting more than 600 horses this year, competing in heavy, harness, western and English classes.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Elementary grades superintendent Hilt Stewart is retiring in early July after more than two decades in the position. The decision breaks the longest serving term of school division administrators in the province.

The federal government plans to close the port of Churchill next month, provincial Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said.

TEN YEARS AGO

Financing delays have scuttled the biggest residential project planned for Brandon this year. Tuplin Group wanted to open 60 apartment suites downtown by November, helping ease the market’s hunger for housing units. But the developer failed to secure financing in writing by last Friday and missed a deadline imposed by Neighbourhood Renewal Corp. The corporation pulled $600,000 in provincial funding it had tentatively promised, killing the $3.3-million Pacific Avenue project.

Build the Keystone Centre into a dynamic break-even facility with consistent, but not excessive, taxpayer grants. Do it by giving the centre a makeover and booking more agriculture events, conventions and concerts. That was the advice a small, polite crowd gave Keystone Centre directors last night at its first public forum in 11 years. Its conclusions were hardly groundbreaking. But there was consensus that the Keystone is an asset worth paying for, not closing.

Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 19, 2012

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