Looking Back — March 25, 2024

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

Brandon’s 14th elementary school got its official name recently — Linden Lanes Elementary School. The 17-room school now being built in the west end and Linden Lanes subdivision at a cost of $250,000 is due to open this fall.

The dispatch of troops to Cyprus marked the fourth major peacekeeping tasks for the Canadian Army. When the move is completed, more than 8,000 officers and men will be on overseas duty in a score of countries.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Manitoba Hydro announced its first rate increase since 1968 and only the second in the history of the publicly owned utility. The increased rates will produce additional revenue of about $15 million in the 1974-75 fiscal year. The increase in hydro rates as of April 1 will cost the average Brandon resident about 19 per cent more for the same amount of power in the same month last year.

The Brandon school board last night agreed to charge non-residents fees for those students attending schools in Division No. 40 from other divisions.

FORTY YEARS AGO

City council decided to forge ahead with its street widening policy and begin work this year on sections of 13th and 14th Streets.

The Canadian film industry paid tribute to the country’s one-legged hero as it voted “The Terry Fox Story” best picture and biggest winner in the Genie Awards in Toronto last night.

The Centennial Library-Arts Centre of Western Manitoba will be unveiled to the public April 1, nearly two years after the original opening date.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Bob Cornell, owner of Cornell Bros. Plumbing and Heating, was recognized last night as the business person of the year by the Brandon Chamber of Commerce.

City council honoured 55 years of tradition and the school’s economic impact on the city by approving an unconditional grant of $100,000 to Brandon University during budget deliberations last night. The university had requested $145,169.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Vaughan Boles is pumping life back into the Minnedosa Rockfest, which went belly-up this past summer. “We weren’t prepared to let it die,” says the Brandon credit administrator. Boles, along with a group of Rockfest fans joined to create Rocking the Fields of Minnedosa Non-profit Cooperative Ltd., after the company, 4133501 Manitoba Ltd., filed for bankruptcy in August. The non-profit organization is currently working to secure members to keep the festival, slated to run from July 29 to Aug. 1, afloat.

About 150 cows from a Steinbach-area farm will be slaughtered after a test detected bovine tuberculosis in a dairy cow.

TEN YEARS AGO

A last-minute deal between union representatives and management kept support staff at Hillcrest Place off the picket lines. The union employees, who had been without a contract since 2012, will get retroactive raises of 1.25 per cent in 2012 and 2013. They get additional raises of 1.25 per cent in 2014 and 2015, when the agreement runs out.

The CFL commissioner will award the Winnipeg Blue Bombers the 2015 Grey Cup on Wednesday. Mark Cohon is scheduled to be in Winnipeg on Wednesday, and while the club wouldn’t comment Monday, it has been in negotiations for several months with the province and city to pave the way to a successful event. The Bombers were promised a Grey Cup by the CFL when they broke ground on Investors Group Field.