Looking Back — Nov. 30, 2023
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This article was published 30/11/2023 (712 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Arthur Bristin was recently chosen president of the 4-H Club in Elgin with Rod More as vice-president and Gary Racher as secretary-treasurer.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Hugh Sinclair, a native of Virden, was honoured with the Good Citizen Award last night at CFB Shilo for his dedicated service to the base for the past 23 years.
Welland Dalzell of Brandon has invented a new, more efficient home thermostat, and it is to be manufactured in Brandon by Inventronics Ltd.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A record November blizzard trapped thousands of travellers and brought midwestern cities across the U.S. to a standstill with head-high drifts, while the death toll climbed to 56 from back-to-back snowstorms.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Stella Fedeniuk, a Brandon civil engineer working at the Brandon office of Agriculture Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, received official thanks from the U.S. government for her help in the massive effort to repair flood damage in the American Midwest this fall. Fedeniuk spent a part of the fall in Quincy County in western Illinois overseeing emergency construction projects made necessary by the disastrous Mississippi River floods this past summer.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Manitoba’s economic future was to get a $50-million funding boost from the federal and provincial governments today. The renewal of the development partnership to be signed by federal Western Diversification Minister Stephen Owen, and Manitoba Industry Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk will provide four years of economic aid to the province.
TEN YEARS AGO
Hire a full-time housing specialist, establish a new use for “pocket” suites and explore incentives for developers. These are just a few of the action items laid out in the city’s 2013 Affordable Housing Strategy — an 80-page report that was recently presented to Brandon City Council.
Manitobans are getting poorer, according to two recent reports from Statistics Canada. The reports, which illustrate increases in non-farm wages and consumer prices, show wages in Manitoba remained unchanged in a one-year period, while consumer prices jumped 2.5 per cent during the same time.