Looking Back — Jan. 23, 2024

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

Muriel McPherson and her Brandon foursome, skipped by Ev Grant with Doreen White and Ella Jadel, sailed through the first annual Ladies Open Bonspiel in Wawanesa to capture the first event with a 5-0 record.

A total of 435 youthful musicians and singers will converge on the city this weekend for the fourth annual Manitoba Music Educators choral and orchestral workshop.

Premier Fidel Castro left for home today after putting Cuba behind Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Communist ideological dispute and receiving a Soviet pledge to pay more than $3.4 billion for Cuban sugar in the next six years.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Minnedosa will get $160,000 in federal grants and $49,000 from the Manitoba government for construction of water and sewage facilities.

About 80 people attended the annual meeting of the Downtown Merchants Association, approved a $9,000 budget and elected a new executive: Boom Cristall is the new chairman, Darryl Darling is the treasurer and Linda Robins is co-ordinator/secretary.

FORTY YEARS AGO

A nine-member water levels advisory board for the Oak and Plum Lake area has been established to monitor level conditions. Lloyd Hatch of Oak Lake is board chairman.

Ron Atkinson, a veteran implement dealer in Hartney, was recently awarded the dealer of the year award from the 115 Manitoba members of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba Implement Dealers Association. Atkinson is entering his 34th year of selling and servicing farm equipment.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Telly Savalas, the gruff, bald actor who became a television favourite as a lollipop-loving New York City detective in the 1970s series “Kojak,” died yesterday. He was 70 years old.

A Dauphin-based company is expanding rapidly by sticking to its small-town attitude and catering to rural markets. Added Mobility — which opened its first store last May — has just opened a branch office in Souris. The company specializes in equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers and scooters. The company president is Dianne Lemaire.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Work on a proposed $20-million aboriginal art and cultural centre continues “plodding along,” Leah LaPlante says. A group of people are putting together a business plan for the proposed Northern Plains Aboriginal Centre before the end of May, the one-year deadline Brandon City Council gave to get the plan on paper. LaPlante, the Manitoba Métis Federation’s southwestern Manitoba vice-president, says they will soon hire a consultant to do a market analysis.

Provincial Lotteries Minister Scott Smith announced yesterday that hotel and lounge operators will have the option of operating VLTs on Sundays, effective Feb. 1, 2004.

TEN YEARS AGO

If all goes according to plan, new Brandon University housing could be ready for students to move in by September 2015. BU president Deborah Poff said the goal is to break ground on the project this fall. The plan is to develop non-profit housing units for mature university students near Sioux Valley High School (the former Fleming School property), with the goal to provide more options in quality, affordable housing for students with families.

Coun. Stephen Montague (Richmond) will not run for mayor in the 2014 Brandon municipal election. There has been much speculation in the community that the 33-year-old councillor would be seeking the mayor’s chair. However, Montague has decided now is not the time.