Looking Back — Nov. 2, 2018

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

C.C. Musgrove, 90, the only person living in the Boissevain area who saw the first passenger train arrive in Boissevain in 1885, was on hand last week when the last run was made.

Don Francis’ Suburban Restaurant in the city’s west end at the corner of 26th Street and Victoria Avenue was officially opened this week. It was opened for business a month ago.

Seven men buried eight and a half days in the Cumberland coal mine were found alive today. Within a little more than three hours, all had been taken to hospital on stretchers.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Western Propane Ltd. sales and service operation on the Trans-Canada Highway officially opens today. Owners are Dennis Duval and Abe Klassen.

Sylvia Richardson, soprano, Walter Hekster, clarinet, and Robert Richardson, piano, of the faculty of music will combine their talents in presenting a program at the Evans Lecture Theatre this week.

Ambulances crews in all parts of Manitoba, except Winnipeg, have combined to form the Manitoba Ambulance Operators Association.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Starting today, the federal government is offering a month-long amnesty to allow gun owners to take unregistered or prohibited weapons to the nearest police station and either surrender or register them without fear of prosecution.

High temperature in Brandon today reached 20 degrees, while the humidity was only around 23 per cent.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

An area just north of Brandon in the Rural Municipality of Elton has been identified as one of several suitable sites for a proposed hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility.

United States President Ronald Reagan said the news media created the Iran arms affair and denied the existence of the biggest scandal to hit his administration.

A federal judge says Imelda Marcos, wife of the former Philippine president, can return home to Hawaii after she comes up with $5 million in bail.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

The decision to not complete twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway is putting lives at risk, warns Virden Mayor Dave Reid. The town and Rural Municipality of Wallace will be co-operating in an effort to get the province to extend twinning of the highway beyond the area already planned. The province has indicated it doesn’t intend to twin the highway west of the intersection of Highway 83, about 10 kilometres west of Virden.

The level of Lake Wahtopanah will be drawn down about a metre and held at that level throughout the winter, reports Manitoba Natural Resources. Lake Minnedosa, which is upstream along the Little Saskatchewan River, is also being lowered this fall so that dredging can be done to remove silt from the lake, which is also a reservoir created by construction of a dam. After repairs are complete and the Wahtopanah dam is drawn down another metre, it will be held at that level through the winter.

TEN YEARS AGO

As the Manitoba government mulls which highway projects to add to its 2009 construction season, the push is on to make an unpaved section of road between CFB Shilo and Wawanesa a provincial priority. “It’s a nasty piece of road to drive, particularly when the weather is bad,” said Wawanesa Mayor Bruce Gullett. The province constructed a bridge over the Assiniboine River on Highway 340 in 1988, with the original intent that the entire stretch of Highway 340 between Shilo and the village of Wawanesa be given a hard surfacing.

Hundreds of volunteers searched on Saturday for two young women who have disappeared without a trace in separate incidents in Manitoba. The volunteers joined forces with the Manitoba Search and Rescue Association to look for Amber McFarland, 24, and Jennifer Catcheway, 18, both of Portage la Prairie.

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