Looking Back — Nov. 23, 2023
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This article was published 23/11/2023 (719 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A Boissevain woman, Mrs. Earle C. Clarke, was named president of the Manitoba Social Credit Women’s Auxiliary at its annual meeting.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Assiniboine Hospital will be phased out and replaced by a new facility adjacent to the Brandon General Hospital in four to six weeks. The new facility will have 201 beds.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Soviet delegation walked out of the U.S.-Soviet talks on reducing medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe, declaring the negotiations discontinued without setting a resumption date.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A drop in ice rental rates has signalled a friendly war for customers between the Sportsplex Arena and the Keystone Centre. The Keystone Centre has chopped its non-primetime ice rentals by 33 per cent. The Sportsplex has matched the discount.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A small band of Brandon business owners is doing its best to lure people downtown at night, after the banks and shops close and the district all but empties out. They’re offering up their shops and restaurants as intimate venues for singers, pianists and other musicians who are desperate for places to play. One of the newest trends in downtown revitalization, experts say, is working toward the “24-hour city,” where people are out and about at all hours of the day. Live entertainment goes a long way toward working on the night-time end of that goal.
TEN YEARS AGO
A pilot program at Brandon Correctional Centre will give inmates an opportunity to gain valuable skills while, at the same time, providing a service to the community. As part of the Recycle Your Cycle program, inmates will pick up disposed bicycles from the city’s landfill, refurbish them at a shop at the jail and donate the “like-new” bikes back to community groups that will hand them out to families in need.
He might claim he has been hands-off on the two federal byelections in Manitoba, but his actions may speak louder than words. Prime Minister Stephen Harper jetted into Winnipeg late Thursday and stayed in town long enough to be seen at the Jets-Blackhawks game Thursday night, cut a ribbon for the new $212-million CentrePort Canada Way highway on Friday and then meet privately with Premier Greg Selinger regarding infrastructure, flood protection and other matters. Harper said Friday prime ministers do not actively campaign on the ground in byelections.