Looking Back — Feb. 16, 2024
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This article was published 16/02/2024 (580 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Construction of a 96-foot addition on the new 4-H Club building on the exhibition grounds was announced today by H.H. Rungay, president of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba. The addition will double the size of the building.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Bill Moore, production manager for McKenzie Seeds and Wilbert Larande, city licence inspector, have been appointed to the organization committee of the Brandon Heart Fund committee.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Two masked men, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun, forced one teller to the floor of the Plumas Credit Union yesterday and stole an undisclosed amount of cash.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon school board would like the Brandon Teachers’ Association to agree to a long-term contract that includes no wage increase in 1995 so it can come to grips with a looming deficit.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brandon’s Snow-Goers snowmobile club continues to give to the community, even after the aging group has dissolved. “We just closed up because we didn’t have any more members,” says Bill Hansen. This week, the club will donate $2,000 to the Brandon Regional Health Centre and the same amount to the Heart Foundation, and empty out its bank account. In 1967, Hansen, now 74, got eight avid snowmobilers together and formed the Snow-Goers. By 1968, it was an official club and two years later the growing numbers started keeping minutes at club meetings.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandon school trustees would have to cut dozens of staffing positions next year to achieve a property tax freeze for the 2014-15 budget. “If we went to take down that possible four per cent (tax increase) to zero, then we’d have to take $3.6 million out in staffing,” division chairman Mark Sefton told the Sun on Friday. “We need to reduce spending by $900,000 for every one per cent (cut) in taxes.”
One of the colder winters in memory is benefiting Manitoba Hydro not only in the pocketbook, but in its argument to build two new northern dams. The Crown utility said in its third-quarter report released Friday that its consolidated net income sat at $72 million for the first nine months (to Dec. 31) of the 2013-14 fiscal year, compared to a net loss of $38 million for the same period last year.
A roundtable discussion for Canadian Forces members, veterans and the public will be held Feb. 23 in Brandon, hosted by Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Larry Maguire. The goal of the event is to seek recommendations in connection with the federal government’s ongoing review of the New Veterans Charter.