Looking Back — Jan. 5, 2023
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This article was published 05/01/2024 (726 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Sun fashion editor Kaye Rowe starts out the new year properly with a flurry of fashion collection assignments from Montreal and New York.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Dan McDonald and his son Gordon of Brandon are the 1973 winners of the Manitoba Dairy Association’s trophy for the best dairy farm in Manitoba.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Brandon City Council is demanding the provincial government launch a judicial inquiry into the firing of Brandon University president Harold Perkins.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Canada has spent nearly $1 billion on military deployment to the former Yugoslavia, more than 20 times the $50 million it has given in humanitarian assistance, the Globe and Mail said today.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Crime Stoppers International released new statistics that show about $94.4 million in drugs was seized in the last month as a result of Crime Stoppers tips around the world. This year in Brandon, Crime Stoppers tips have been credited with the recovery of more than $90,000 in stolen property and more than $38,000 in seized drugs. Crime Stoppers tips led to the arrest of two suspects after tires were slashed on 28 vehicles in Brandon’s west end last summer.
TEN YEARS AGO
A flight from Winnipeg to Minneapolis had to make an emergency landing because smoke started filling the cockpit shortly after takeoff on Friday. Skywest flight 4476, operating as a Delta connection, left Winnipeg at 1:01 p.m. and landed again at 1:21 p.m. A spokesman for the Winnipeg Airport Authority says no injuries have been reported and the plane landed safely.
The Brandon University Bobcats women’s volleyball team will return home from Barbados tomorrow as bronze medallists in the VolleyBarbados tournament.
North Dakota, the No. 2 oil-producing state behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None was reported to the public, officials said. Records obtained by The Associated Press show the pipeline spills, many of them small, are among some 750 “oilfield incidents” that have occurred since January 2012 without public notification.