Looking Back — Jan. 22, 2024

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This article was published 22/01/2024 (708 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

The Stockton foursome of Mrs. Sidney Bailey, Mrs. George Barr, Mrs. Donald Barr and Mrs. Kenneth Sampson captured the grand aggregate in the ladies’ open bonspiel held recently in Belmont. They defeated Mrs. Frank Parsonage and her rink from Greenway in the finals.

Mrs. Walter Borotsik, retiring president of Zion United Church Women, was presented with a life membership pin by Mrs. G.A. Brownridge at a recent meeting of the group.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Under new budget changes at the Keystone Centre, ice-rental fees to minor hockey and figure skating associations were raised from $8 an hour to $11.

An armoured personnel carrier drove up the rear ramp of a Canadian Forces Hercules transport at the Brandon airport prior to departure to Churchill. The military conducted a large-scale exercise over the weekend to test the efficiency of a “no-notice” move of men and equipment. Aircraft from two bases airlifted the soldiers and equipment to Churchill where they will remain for 10 days.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The air was filled with the howls and yaps of sled-dog teams streaking along the trails at the second annual Spruce Woods Challenge Race.

The Los Angeles Raiders came out on top in what could be called the most lopsided Super Bowl in history. They defeated the Washington Redskins with a 38-9 victory.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

City council approved $5.7 million in capital projects this year amid concerns money will be extremely tight. During a five-and-a-half-hour capital budget-setting session, council agreed with an administration recommendation to delete up to $224,000 worth of improvements to six different bike and walking paths.

Sherri Damsgaard of Brandon will be heading to Winnipeg next weekend to meet soap opera star Eric Braeden, who plays Victor Newman on “The Young and the Restless.” Damsgaard was chosen as the right candidate by the CBC- TV’s “Coleman and Company” for a feature they are doing examining the fantasy of meeting a soap star.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

A renovated downtown Brandon hotel, which was expected to open before last Christmas, will open its doors in the near future. Last fall, Winnipeg-native Gerry Brisson, who has been living in Red Deer, Alta. recently, bought Ninth Street’s Brandon Hotel after the building had sat vacant for more than a year. Renovators began fixing up the 31 self-contained rooms and 19 regular rooms last December, as well as the establishment’s bar.

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is receiving designation as a provincial heritage site on Jan. 30. Eric Robinson, Minister of Culture, Heritage and Tourism will be at the museum on Jan. 30 at 1:30 p.m. to make the presentation. The museum’s expansion plan is underway and it has begun a public fundraising campaign to help with the upgrades.

TEN YEARS AGO

Bundled up in parkas and toques, students at Green Acres School made the best of a chilly situation as the school dealt with a heating system breakdown. It was the second day the east-end school had no heat. On Monday afternoon, students were sent home because it was too cold. Industrial heaters were brought in overnight, and the school was open Tuesday, but it was at the parents’ discretion whether their child attended.

Locked in a three-way dogfight for first place in the Western Hockey League’s East Division, the Brandon Wheat Kings, Swift Current Broncos and Regina Pats are all within a point of each other going into tonight’s games when the Wheat Kings visit the Broncos and the Pats venture up to Edmonton to take on the Oil Kings.