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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Twenty years ago, Keith Macpherson won a grand championship ribbon at the Manitoba Winter Fair with his entry, Morning Star. His daughter, Denise, captured the pony class at this year’s showing with her entry, Tin Top.
A two-year-old shorthorn bull, owned by Henry W. Gordon and Sons of Souris, was judged supreme champion of all breeds appearing at the winter fair. An Angus heifer, the entry of Laurent Maguet of Ste. Rose du Lac, took the supreme female championship.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
C.E. Glasman and Sons of Russell were on top of the heap after judging of the Aberdeen Angus sale bulls at the Manitoba Winter Fair. The Black Eagle breeders showed the junior champion and senior grand champion of the show.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Run-off water from the Turtle Mountains has inundated the town of Waskada. The downtown section near the U.S. border has been closed, with water about a foot deep running over the curbs.
A rare, highly contagious disease has struck down more than 20 Canada geese at the Souris bird sanctuary. The geese were among the 80 to 90 of their breed that, along with several ducks, winter at the Souris sanctuary.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Jim Dayton, a Shoal Lake farmer, and his partner, Cliff Usick of Newdale, are selling their invention, the Winn-o-bar, at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. The combine attachment is used to control grain loss during harvesting.
Moore Farms of MacGregor has won the first leg of the battle of the giants at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. The farm took home first-place ribbons in the first two classes of heavy horse shows.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The plan to have train whistles silenced at a west-end railway crossing has been derailed because the city has learned the move will carry an unexpected and hefty price tag.
Mock mourners propped a black coffin in front of MP Glen McKinnon’s office yesterday to mark the demise of the Canada Assistance Plan. The federal legislation that entrenched national standards for social programs died April 1.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Residents in Hartney are excited and a little apprehensive as they brace for a Hollywood invasion. Tomorrow, a convoy of trailers carrying film crews and equipment will descend on the town to begin a two-week shoot for the upcoming movie, “The Lookout.” The arrival of so many people will nearly double the town’s population. Residents are looking forward to Hartney’s chance to be in the limelight, but there is an air of caution in their excitement.
TEN YEARS AGO
More than 100,000 visits, roughly $170,000 in prize money and upwards of 10,000 mini doughnuts — by all accounts, the 109th Royal Manitoba Winter Fair was a weeklong success. The event wrapped up Saturday, and Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba general manager Ron Kristjansson was pleased with this year’s final tally of 110,000 visits, an increase of 8,000 from 2015.
Jordan Thomson’s screened shot from the point in the third period held up as the winner as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the Edmonton Oil Kings 5-2 at Rexall Place on Sunday in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final series. Brandon, which now holds a 3-2 series lead after losing the first two games at home, swept the three games in Alberta and has a chance to finish Edmonton in Game 6 on home ice Tuesday.
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