Looking Back — March 30, 2024

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

Canadian soldiers took over the ceasefire line between Greek and Turkish-Cypriots in the northern Nicosia suburb of Trakhonas in one of the most bizarre operations in Canadian history. Two companies left their tent camp and moved into villas and apartments along the streets they now will patrol for at least the next three months.

Manitoba is now suffering through the worst outbreak of rabies in its recorded history.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Brandon University now has an archeological museum. It was developed by students under the direction of Leigh Syms, professor of archeology at the university.

The credit system will be introduced into Brandon’s high school in September. The credit system — as opposed to the present grade system — requires a student to obtain a minimum of 20 credits to graduate from Grade 12.

A barn located three and a half miles east on the Glen Souris road, south of Brandon, was destroyed by fire yesterday. It was owned by Harleigh Hargreaves. No livestock was lost and there were no injuries reported.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Brandon Legal Aid lawyer Willis Congdon has been elected president of the 88-member Western Manitoba Bar Association.

Firefighters were called to the scene of a brush fire in a field adjacent to the Riverview Curling Club. About two hectares of land along Maryland Avenue was blackened by a fire believed to have been started by children playing with matches.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Assiniboine Community College’s rural initiatives program has received two honours of sustainable development certificates from the Manitoba Round Table on Environment and Economy. The awards recognize the efforts of the two-year diploma program and the work of its students and instructors.

In the Light Horse Show, Brandon’s Guy Robertson, riding his own horse My Sweet Investment, grabbed a red ribbon in the Open Western Pleasure. The horse had earlier won the Junior Western Pleasure (Junior Rider) with Larysa Skwarek in the saddle.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Todd and Julie Racher, who operate 1,600 acres of the family farm located six miles northeast of Elgin, have been nominated for the 2004 Manitoba Outstanding Young Farmer award.

The amount Brandon homeowners pay in property tax will certainly go up this year, Mayor Dave Burgess predicts. While times are tough and taxes are on the rise, Burgess says after a decade of city tax cuts, council had to do what it did and contribute to the first tax bill increase in three years.

TEN YEARS AGO

Manitoba’s new booze laws will thin the line between salon and saloon. The updated Liquor Act takes effect April 1 and will allow licensed salon customers the option of enjoying a glass of bubbly while getting their hair done.

A man wearing a long trench coat sparked pandemonium Friday when he walked into a busy multi-storey courthouse in Brampton, Ont., pulled out a gun and shot and wounded a police officer before being shot dead by the officer’s colleagues. The late morning incident in the lobby where security screens visitors sent unnerved people scrambling for cover.