Looking Back — Aug. 23, 2023

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This article was published 23/08/2023 (1113 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

The 1964 Canadian International Bull Show and Sale will be held in Brandon Feb. 29. The decision to move the show from Toronto, where it has been held for the past two years, was made by the sponsoring organization Shorthorn Sales Inc. after discussions between Shorthorn breeders in western and eastern Manitoba.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Major G. William Manson, CD, presently serving as Military aide-de-camp to the Manitoba lieutenant-governor, has been appointed H/Lieut.-Colonel of the 26th Field Regiment of Brandon. Manson is chairman of the Brandon General Hospital board and past-president of the Brandon Chamber of Commerce.

Non-operating railway workers brought rail service across Canada to a halt today with a national strike and the big question — the federal government’s reaction — remained unanswered today.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Coal ignited in a hopper at the Brandon University boiler plant at 20th Street and Rosser Avenue. Crews with a conveyor belt and trucks spent about eight hours removing the hot coals from the hopper, which has the capacity of 80 to 90 tonnes.

Brandon City Council will squeeze money from some of its maintenance projects so widening of Richmond Avenue can begin this year.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

In Prairie fields, the 1993 crop of circles is beginning to sprout. Two circle formations have been reported south of Calgary and one near Altona.

A weekend filled with a sense of pride and accomplishment for the people of the Waywayseecappo First Nation is underway as visitors flocked to see a new roadside grocery store, rodeo grandstand and fairgrounds. Many of the approximately 900 residents of this Ojibway community, located in the picturesque Birdtail Valley near Rossburn, laboured to make this weekend possible.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Convicted killer Robert Sand, who fatally shot a Manitoba RCMP officer, was given a two-year sentence Friday for two separate assaults, one in which he tried to slit his lawyer’s throat with a razor blade. The sentence will run concurrent to the life sentence he’s already serving for the murder of Const. Dennis Strongquill in December 2001. Unlike the United States, Canadian law prohibits the courts from adding to a life sentence.

Cando Contracting Ltd. will hand out more than $77,000 worth of shares to its 230 employees across Canada in recognition of its 25th anniversary. The gift will come equally from Cando and founders Gord and Diane Peters. The Brandon-based Cando began operations in June 1978 in the railway abandonment business. Employee ownership was introduced in 1996.

TEN YEARS AGO

The final phase of VBJ Developments’ Island Park subdivision has been approved by city council. A total of 119 single-family lots will be developed in four phases, at the corner of First Street and Patricia Avenue, south of Crocus Plains high school in the south end.

All eyes were on the sky as the Sentimental Journey flew overhead at the Brandon Municipal Airport on Thursday. The B-17 Flying Fortress closed out its three-day visit to Brandon alongside four of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum’s flying assets and several other visiting planes in a flying demonstration.