Looking Back — July 15, 2022
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This article was published 15/07/2022 (1534 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A National Grain Co. elevator with 12,000 bushels of grain burned to the ground at Smart’s Siding early this morning and cut the Canadian National Railways main line to Edmonton for at least five hours. Work crews were busy trying to clear the main line to allow the crack CNR Supercontinental passenger train to proceed west.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A part of the Manitoba Public Insurance Corp. head office operations will be moved from Winnipeg to Brandon on Sept. 1. About 45 employees will move into the government services building on Ninth Street, now in its final stages of construction.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Tears were shed and blame aimed at the Manitoba government by some of the 1,500 full- and part-time workers who lost their jobs today when the financially troubled Assiniboine Downs racetrack closed.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
About 20 demonstrators weathered noon-hour rain showers yesterday as federal public servants and allied labour groups rallied to talk of the possible implications of the federal government’s transfer of unemployment insurance and labour training programs.
Through the summer months, three commercial art students from Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School will be dangling from a scaffold at the YMCA and brightening up a six- by 30-metre section of the building’s west and south walls.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Researchers from Brandon and Lakehead universities have discovered at least five different cultures in the ground at Lauder Sand Hills, southwest of Brandon. The group — consisting of both teachers and students from the fields of archeology, geoarcheology, paleoenvironment, ethnology and geomatics — has been digging up the sand hills for the last three years. The dig is part of the research program the Study of Cultural Adaptations in the Prairie Ecozone, taking place at another site in Manitoba, one in Saskatchewan and one in Alberta. So far, the group has discovered artifacts from 19th century Métis, and from groups they name Vickers Focus, dating back 350 years ago; Duncan-Hanna, dating back 4,000 years ago and possibly an Oxbow occupation dating back 5,000 years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO
Westman Dreams for Kids celebrated its 20th annual McDonald’s Golf Classic tournament on Thursday. It was another sell-out event, with 185 golfers. The tournament raised $70,000, which included a donation of $26,000 from McDonald’s.
An industry forecast that nearly half a million new airline pilots will be needed worldwide over the next 20 years as airlines expand their fleets has raised safety concerns that airlines will hire lower calibre pilots as they struggle to fill slots.