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Looking Back - May 7, 2012

By: Cathy Arthur

Monday, May. 7, 2012 | Comments: 0

In 2002: Brandon officials meet WEstJet executives

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Fred Mansoff, veteran Brandon trap shooter, captured top honours this weekend in the opening shoot of the season at the Brandon Gun Club.

Hundreds of Allied planes today bombed Sunchon, a North Korean rail junction, in a concentrated, daylong saturation attack.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Gail Field, fourth-year music student at Brandon College, won the Brandon Sun Rose Bowl at the final vocal contest of the fifth annual Music and Speech Arts Festival last night.

Betty Champ, of 134 Madison Crescent, was the first recruit to be sworn in during the recent drive to enlist women for the CWAC (militia) in Brandon.

The Brandon school board gave final agreement to go ahead with the construction of a 24-classroom equivalent addition to Brandon Collegiate Institute at Fifth Street and Louise Avenue.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The Keystone campaign fund grew by $225,581 in cash and confirmed pledges yesterday as donors reaffirmed their confidence in the Keystone Centre project. There are now 260 pledges totalling $410,000 of the $750,000 goal.

After four years and $3.75 million, Brandon University’s J.R. Brodie Science Centre was officially opened by W. J. McKeag, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba. The building was named after J.R. Brodie who came to Brandon in the early 1900s and opened a grain brokerage business. In 1963, he donated $250,000 with the stipulation that the money be used for a science centre.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Southam Inc. and Thomson Newspapers Ltd., Canada’s two largest newspaper chains, were ordered to stand trial for an alleged three-year conspiracy to control English-language newspapers in four Canadian cities. The charges arose from the September 1979 closure of the Montreal Star and August 1980 closures of the Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg Tribune.

The Royal Bank of Canada has boosted the fundraising campaign for a new school of music at Brandon University by contributing $50,000.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

“The Tommy Hunter Show” has been cancelled after 27 years as a weekly TV series on CBC, but the country music singer will remain on the network for at least four more years as host of occasional specials.

Executives with Calm Air are scheduled to meet Mayor Rick Borotsik and his air service committee to report on bringing their airline to Brandon.

TEN YEARS AGO

Top WestJet executives are giving Brandon officials two hours today to convince them to return to the city. “We’re going to let them know information we have and don’t think they have,” said Jeff Cristall, chairman of Brandon Airport development committee. The focus of this afternoon’s pitch to two WestJet vice-presidents in Calgary is data from travel agents and Manitoba Telecom Services. The committee obtained phone records from MTS and travel plan info that show western Manitobans’ flying preferences may be evenly split. People here are connected with Vancouver Island, Calgary and Toronto, based on the data.

Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 7, 2012

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