Looking Back — Feb. 24, 2024

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This article was published 24/02/2024 (571 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Coun. T.L. Tapp cut the ribbon to officially open a new municipal garage in Hargrave, which will be the maintenance centre for the municipality’s road machinery.

St. Michael’s Academy presented the junior piano students in recital recently. The students represented the studios of Miss M. J. Cowe, Marie Nadler, Wilma Slator and Patricia Filipowich.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Kitty Reese, representing Gondola Pizza, was chosen queen of the Happy Daze Winter Carnival. Beverly Elliott of the Kinsmen Club and Diane Corley, representing the Brandon General Hospital school of nursing, were chosen first and second princesses. Miss Dominion of Canada, Deborah Tone of Hamilton, Ont., was also on hand for the festivities.

It was a thrill for the audience at the winter carnival as a parachutist marked his trail with a smoke bomb as he descended to the Keystone Centre this afternoon. An estimated 5,000 people attended the second annual Brandon Winter Carnival three-day affair.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The Commons passed a resolution today urging the Manitoba legislature to pass “in an urgent manner” provincial government proposals to protect French-language rights.

Louis Riel’s last diary, detailing the Métis leader’s armed uprising over Indigenous rights during the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, has come home to Saskatchewan, nearly a century after it was taken from the province.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

CFB Shilo has been spared in the federal budget. Manitoba’s two bases — Shilo and 17 Wing Winnipeg — were spared as the Maritimes and Ontario bore the brunt, with CFB Ottawa, CFB Downsview (Toronto), CFB Cornwallis, N.S., and CFB Chatham, N.B., ordered to close.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Brandon school trustees passed a motion to authorize the borrowing of $267,900 to meet partial construction costs for the addition at J.R. Reid School and Linden Lanes School renovations. The funds will be borrowed from the Public Schools Finance Board.

It’s going to be out with the old and in with the new at the Brandon Regional Health Centre. A fundraising campaign to replace more than 200 beds at the hospital will kick off March 1. The hospital has already raised $270,000 and needs about another $1 million to replace the 30- to 40-year-old beds.

TEN YEARS AGO

Jonathan Toews and Sidney Crosby scored the first two goals Sunday to give Canada a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the men’s hockey final at the Sochi Winter Olympics. Controversial roster pick Chris Kunitz added some insurance in another dominant performance by the undefeated Canadians, who captured their second straight gold medal.

A month after the federal government closed many several Veterans Affairs offices, it’s moving forward with consultations on its new veterans charter. More than 40 people crammed into a Canad Inns salon room on Sunday afternoon, seeking answers from Edmonton Centre Conservative MP Laurie Hawn, a member of Parliament’s Veterans Affairs committee, and Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Larry Maguire.