Looking Back — April 28, 2023
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This article was published 28/04/2023 (1274 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Council worked its way through a second four-hour session but were only able to make cuts in the estimates amounting to approximately $13,500.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
U.S. President Richard Nixon announced today the resignations of Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and three key White House aides.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A seven-month-old boy who died last week at the Hospital for Sick Children has been found to have elevated levels of dioxin, a heart drug linked with the possible overdose deaths of as many as 28 other babies at the world-renowned institution.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
In Brandon, more than 800 people of all ages shook off a long winter and strolled together in the Super Cities Walk for Multiple Sclerosis, which also took place in three other Manitoba communities. That is an increase of 200 participants over last year’s total.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The provincial government will commit just over $14 million for two major highway improvement projects in southwestern Manitoba. Transportation Minister Scott Smith announced in Brandon Friday the highway projects which will be included in his department’s $120-million budget for new road construction. Westman’s two big projects will be the twinning of 10 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Virden and the construction of passing lanes between Minnedosa and Neepawa on the Yellowhead Highway.
TEN YEARS AGO
The idea of easing restrictions on secondary dwelling units and boarding houses in Brandon is being called a “destructive and dangerous initiative” by Brandon East NDP MLA Drew Caldwell. Caldwell, a longtime Brandon resident and former Rosser ward councillor, said he is concerned that mistakes of the past are in danger of being repeated.
The Brandon Veterans’ Memorial is very close to being fully funded and construction should be complete by the end of June. The memorial, located at the corner of 11th Street and Victoria Avenue, across the street from the Brandon Armoury on the grounds of the Brandon Police Service building, will be a three-piece granite structure, framed by three illuminated flagpoles, with greenspace around it.
Feed shortages due to inclement weather on both ends of the climate spectrum have squeezed Westman cattle producers, and livestock adviser Melissa Atchison says the Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives office in Melita has fielded calls from distressed farmers.