Looking Back — Oct. 3, 2023

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This article was published 03/10/2023 (1076 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

More than 2,000 visitors have registered at the Minnedosa and District Museum since its official opening July 19.

Jack Roseveare earned the right to exhibit his champion gilt hog at the 4-H Gilt Show of Manitoba recently when he captured the grand champion and junior showmanship competitions at the Kenton 4-H Swine Club achievement day.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Residents of central Alberta who were chased from their homes yesterday by a cloud of deadly hydrogen sulphide gas began returning on roads newly opened by the RCMP.

Derek Van Hoffer, gardener at the Brandon Research Station, encouraged the growth of a patch of Hungarian squash in his home garden at 1329 Rosser Ave. and wound up with an 81-pound vegetable that grew to harvest size in just 100 days.

FORTY YEARS AGO

More than 54,000 Canadians registered before the deadline yesterday for a federal government program giving owners of homes insulated with urea formaldehyde foam up to $5,000 tax free for renovations or reconstruction.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Visitors to the Keystone Centre this weekend have the opportunity to complete a walk to the four corners of the globe in a matter of moments as part of a multicultural festival promoting western Manitoba’s ethnic diversity. In all, some 22 villas are set up and approximately 300 entertainers are on hand at the festival organized by the Westman Multicultural Council.

Dee Oikle, a business administration II student, has been elected the new president of the Assiniboine Community College Students’ Association.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Eleven more Manitobans have tested positive for West Nile virus. The number of cases now stands at 127, with eight confirmed and 119 probable. From the 127 cases, 23 reside in Winnipeg and 104 reside outside of the city. In Manitoba, there are 30 cases of West Nile neurological syndrome, 67 cases of West Nile fever, one asymptomatic blood donor and 29 cases yet to be classified.

By next year, visitors to the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum will be able to feast their eyes on a new motor transport building, replicated from a Second World War-era building in Douglas. Work on the $40,000 building is now underway as part of the first phase of the museum’s multi-phase upgrading and expansion plan.

TEN YEARS AGO

The family of a man who was in the midst of a psychotic episode when he killed his own father in a city hotel room will now try to heal from their loss. In Brandon Court of Queen’s Bench on Wednesday, Dana Allison Craig was found not criminally responsible for killing his 63-year-old father, Terry Craig. Dana, 26, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Terry, whose body was found in a room at the Brandon Motel 6 on April 10.

In a precedent-setting move, a Brandon judge has struck down a federally legislated minimum sentence as unconstitutional. Justice John Menzies spared a gunman who fired bullets into a Carberry home from a four-year prison term, and sent him to jail for a year instead. The judge said he took into account that the man had lashed out after being bullied.