Looking Back — July 11, 2023

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This article was published 11/07/2023 (1174 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Allan Lewis, 19, of the Springbrook Combined Club of Austin, and Lorna Leader, 16, of the Poplar Bluff Clothing Club, were named as best members of the 4-H Club rally held in Portage la Prairie.

The Kinsmen Club of Brandon awarded two scholarships of $200 each to students from Grade 9 to 11, to attend a leadership training camp at Kin-High Camp Quetico, Ont., this month. Receiving the scholarships are Cheryl McKinnon and Garry Brawn of Harrison High School.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

A strike by 57,000 non-operating railway workers seems certain by the last week of July.

Farmers have fallen back on traditional planting patterns this year, discharging government pleas for fullout production at a time of short supplies and heavy world demand.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Plans for a new Brandon University music building have received a boost to the tune of $1.5 million in government grants.

Brandon City Council has approved a provincial plan to widen Richmond Avenue despite pleas from store owners.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

The major Canadian banks lowered their prime rate to 5.75 per cent, hitting the lowest level since September 1967. Since late March, the prime leading rate was set at 6.0 per cent.

Safeway prices: Grade A frying chickens, 99 cents per pound; Edward’s coffee, 737 g., $4.79; Nabisco Shredded Wheat, 600g. $3.39; pork side spare ribs, $2.29 per pound; Schneiders sliced side bacon, 500 g., $2.29; New Zealand lamb chops, $5.99 per pound; Canada Grade A sirloin steak, $4.29 per pound; fresh mangos, 10 lb. case, $4.99.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Ed Mazer is livid at Brandon City Council for “slipping through” an order at Monday night’s council meeting that opens up a 40-acre parcel of land in his North Hill neighbourhood to gigantic box stores. At the meeting, with dozens of North Hill residents in attendance, council passed a conditional-use order, opening up the entire 40-acre parcel of land at the foot of the North Hill to buildings of any size. Thirty acres of that land was already zoned commercial, but only for buildings 30,000 square feet or smaller, a provision of which Mazer, who received a copy of the conditional-use order in the mail yesterday, says he was never made aware.

TEN YEARS AGO

Brandon police were involved in a series property seizures Wednesday morning that are related to a massive drug bust from October. Officers from the RCMP and Manitoba Justice were also involved in the seizures. Five properties were seized in Brandon, rural Brandon, Dauphin and Gilbert Plains. A total of 20 vehicles were also seized — including, reportedly, a combine and a Ferrari. A number of bank accounts related to suspects in the case were also seized.

At least one city councillor is urging the city to fog for mosquitoes as soon as possible to help ease “unbearable” conditions. Coun. Stephen Montague (Richmond) said the latest trap counts — a daily average on July 8 of 1,192 up from just 73 on July 1 — are “off the chart.”