Looking Back — Dec. 15, 2023
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This article was published 15/12/2023 (839 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Greg Coates, a Grade 8 student at J.R. Reid School, was named winner of the Legion-sponsored Remembrance Day essay contest today. Diane Ziprick, a Grade 7 Central School student, was tied for first place with a mark only a fraction of a point lower than Coates.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Western Motel, located at 1148 18th St., is having its grand opening after having completed building 12 new rooms, giving them a total of 26. They have 11 more rooms to be completed in the future.
The Christmas Cheer Registry, like so many other things, is being hit by the rising prices this year and hit hard. Families will not receive the large hampers for Christmas dinners that have been sent in previous years.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Darby Mills and the Headpins performed before 900 faithful fans at the Keystone Centre.
Fire ripped through a farmhouse belonging to Norman Crompton in the Wawanesa area, leaving four people homeless.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon Wheat Kings centre Marty Murray has been named the WHL’s player of the week.
Brandon City Council has unanimously declared Dec. 6 an annual day to remember female victims of violence. Already a national day of mourning for the women who were gunned down by Marc Lepine in the Montreal Massacre four years ago, the date will be a civic day of remembrance for all victims of violence against women, councillors decided last night.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Cornered alone in a cramped hole near one of his sumptuous palaces, a weary, dishevelled Saddam Hussein was seized by U.S. troops and displayed on television screens worldwide today — a humiliating fate for one of history’s most brutal dictators. The man who waged and lost two wars against the United States and its allies was armed with a pistol when captured in a Styrofoam-covered underground hideout near his hometown of Tikrit, but did not resist, the U.S. military said. In the broadcast images, he resembled a desperate fugitive, not an all-powerful president who had ordered his army to fight to the death.
TEN YEARS AGO
Joan Parsons lost her son, sister and brother-in-law to drunk drivers and her brother was hurt so badly, the bones in his hands turned to mush. The three separate crashes happened within a decade. As a speaker for Manitoba Public Insurance’s Friends for Life series, Parsons flew from Nanaimo, B.C., to tell her story at Manitoba schools recently, part of the auto insurer’s ongoing campaign to warn teenagers about the consequences of drunk driving.