Looking Back — Dec. 27, 2023
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This article was published 27/12/2023 (997 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mrs. William Hales was recently elected president of the United Church Women in Justice.
The Rapid City Rockets Bantam B hockey team is being managed by Pat Carr this year.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Western Manitoba viewers must be in front of their TV sets Jan. 1 if they want to see Murdock MacIntosh, Angus Brown, Bob Chamberlain, Bob Duguid, Mark Humphrey and Jim Reid, all of Brandon, and Bob Scott of Carberry, all members of the United Commercial Travellers Pipe Band who leave tomorrow for Pasadena, Calif. They will be part of the 220-piece MacDonald Stewart Winnipeg Massed Pipe Band, which will lead the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
FORTY YEARS AGO
A controversial anti-smoking bylaw goes into effect tomorrow in the city of Winnipeg despite objection from most of the city’s 700 restaurants.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon will kick off the International Year of the Family with a mayor’s levee on New Year’s Day.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Empathy for United States cattle producers now faced with the nightmare of mad cow disease is on the lips of many Westman cattle producers on farms and in coffee shops around the region today. But Westman ranchers are also anxious to see if the discovery of the first-ever U.S. case of mad cow is going put the brakes on recent gains in the fight to reopen the American border to Canadian beef.
TEN YEARS AGO
Bleary-eyed shoppers lined up before the crack of dawn to get their hands on some Boxing Day deals. When Extreme Electronics opened its doors at 7 a.m., a handful of people were waiting to get inside to buy TVs, sound systems and computers that were part of the store’s “legendary Boxing Day blowout.”
The past year has been a busy one for Ginger Kearns, a former Brandonite making a big splash in the New York City theatre scene. Kearns is now a published playwright. Her first play, “This Is A Play About Artists,” was named one of the Top 20 shows in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival.
Despite a flurry of feel-good announcements on how it will spend revenue from its increase in the provincial sales tax, popular support for Manitoba’s NDP continues to nosedive. According to a new poll by Probe Research for the Winnipeg Free Press, Opposition Leader Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives now have the backing of four in 10 decided voters, up four points from the last poll in September to 41 per cent support. That increase has come at the expense of Premier Greg Selinger’s New Democrats, who have slipped to 29 per cent — down from 36 per cent in September.