Looking Back — Feb. 1, 2024
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This article was published 01/02/2024 (673 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The Rock-Hounds of Brandon recently formed a club called the Gem-Dandy Rock Club to promote the study of the earth sciences.
Brandon Jaycees are bringing Jam Pail Curling to the South End Community Centre next weekend.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Brandon University development director Don McKay received the third alumni award in the history of the institution last night. The award was in recognition of MacKay’s outstanding service to the university since he came to the institution as registrar and bursar in 1947.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Larry Campbell, a 36-year-old Brandon plumber, has been appointed to the provincial Rural Building Construction Wages Board.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon Village, a proposed adult-senior housing community, was officially declared a “no go” yesterday by project co-ordinator Glenora Slimmon. For the project to be viable, 15 units had to have been sold by yesterday’s deadline. Three units were sold initially and that number increased to 10 at one point.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The family of slain Manitoba RCMP Const. Dennis Strongquill is outraged that convicted killer Laurie Bell will be eligible for release from jail by August. Bell, 22, was convicted of manslaughter just last summer and sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the December 2001 killing in Russell. Her boyfriend, Robert Sand, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years. The National Parole Board allows prisoners to apply for unescorted temporary absences after serving only one-sixth of their full sentence. In Bell’s case, that date is Aug. 29, which marks exactly 14 months since she was sentenced.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandon veterans and supporters gathered in the cold on Friday as part of a nationwide protest against the closure of Veterans Affairs offices. A crowd of 40 to 50 people gathered outside the Service Canada Centre at the corner of Princess Avenue and 11th Street. It was one of eight such protests planned across the country in locations where offices were being closed. One office in Prince George, B.C., had already been closed and the rest were to be closed on Friday.
An inquiry judge has found Manitoba child welfare fundamentally misunderstood its mandate to protect children and left a little girl who was murdered “defenceless against her mother’s cruelty” and against the “sadistic violence” of the woman’s boyfriend. Five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair was killed by the couple in 2005 after prolonged and horrific abuse. In his final report into her death, commissioner Ted Hughes recommended Manitoba should take the lead to address the disproportionate number of aboriginal children in care across Canada.