Looking Back — Jan. 3, 2024
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This article was published 03/01/2024 (1002 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A regional development board to encourage industry in southwestern Manitoba may soon become a reality with a suggestion that a regional development commission be established in Brandon.
The Brandon College Alumni Association has placed a 15-volume set of reference works in the college library as a memorial to the late Ernestine Whiteside, the institution’s first dean of women.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon weather station reports that the month of November this year equalled a record for being the driest November since 1904, the first year records were kept. A scant .04 inches of precipitation fell on Brandon during the month.
City council has officially received the communication from the Brandon Golf and Country Club, offering the club to the city for a price that would cover its current liabilities.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The price paid to farmers for a dozen eggs will drop by two cents next week in a response to falling feed prices and interest rates.
Stephane Saint-Aubin, an 18-year-old junior hockey player with the Repentigny Olympiques in Montreal, died from loss of blood after a main artery in his neck was slashed during a game.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Keystone Seedcoaters facility at Rivers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farmers’ Co-op Seed Plant, was officially opened yesterday. The new $2-million seed plant is expected to benefit both area farmers and workers at the facility.
After a 50-year absence, the fisher has returned to Riding Mountain National Park. Twenty-two of the furry critters from the weasel family were released this fall with the hopes they go forth and multiply.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Greyhound Canada proposed 20 changes to the Manitoba Motor Transport Board yesterday, including the elimination of service along Highway 45. This would leave Sandy Lake, Elphinstone, Oakburn, Rossburn, Angusville and Russell without Greyhound/Grey Goose bus transportation, while rerouting would funnel more passengers through Brandon.
A shortage of the flu vaccine has been averted. The province asked flu shot providers last month to only give the vaccines to high-risk people fearing a shortage. But yesterday, the high-risk-only request was lifted.
TEN YEARS AGO
Two accused are expected to make a court appearance today in relation to a cross-Prairie crime spree that came to an end with a high-speed chase and a crash at the city’s eastern outskirts. Speeds reached more than 150 km/h, and at least two vehicles were struck during the bid to evade police, but remarkably, no one was seriously hurt.
Friends and family are mourning the loss of a Lenore man they described as “busy” and “community-minded.” Gerald MacDonald, 55, died following an accident with a snowmobile on Wednesday afternoon.