Looking Back — Feb. 10, 2024
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This article was published 10/02/2024 (586 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The British rock group The Beatles came to America and performed on the Ed Sullivan Show yesterday as more than 73 million people watched on television.
About 200 people turned the clock back to the days when the highlight of an evening’s entertainment was a skate on the outdoor rink last night during a carnival skating party. The skaters were enjoying a skating party on the Assiniboine River below the Brandon and District Boat Club’s clubhouse.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
There were more than 400 dogs scheduled for appearance at the Crocus and Kennel Club Annual All Breed Champion Show and Licensed Obedience Trials at the Keystone Centre, making it one of the biggest and possibly the noisiest dog shows the city has seen.
A fire of undetermined origin destroyed a barn, six head of cattle, one pony, a garden tractor and bales early this morning on the Stan Blahitka farm just east of Neepawa. There were no injuries.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Gaetan Boucher of St. Hubert, Que., led the 93-member Canadian contingent in a procession involving 1,500 athletes representing 49 countries in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, yesterday.
Soviet President Yuri Andropov died yesterday at the age of 69. He led the communist party for only 15 months, ailing and out of public view the final six months of his leadership.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The federal government will slash tobacco taxes and wage the largest anti-smoking campaign in Canadian history to crack down on cigarette smuggling, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said today.
Keith Vassell, who scored 65 points in leading the Brandon Bobcats to a pair of basketball victories over the Regina Cougars, was named the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union’s male athlete of the week.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The regular city street cleaning crew has been doubled to 25 people during this cold and snowy winter. They are split into three eight-hour shifts, meaning that road crews are working 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday and 16 hours on the weekend to clean city streets. The current city policy is to plow the walking paths and sidewalks near bus stops. But with only 25 people to run a fleet of two graders, six truck plows, six front-end loaders, two sidewalk plows and three sanders, it takes time to get to every street.
TEN YEARS AGO
The provincial NDP may be joining the chorus of artists who are condemning the federal government for imposing a charge on out-of-country bands that play in Canadian bars and restaurants. Of the hundreds of resolutions during the party’s annual general meeting in Winnipeg this weekend, the “threat to music industry” resolution, put forward by both Brandon NDP associations and two others, was passed along to a party committee to mull. Many performing artists are subject to a $275 fee after major changes to the country’s temporary foreign worker program by the Harper government went into effect last year.