Looking Back — Jan. 25, 2024
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This article was published 25/01/2024 (778 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Ralph Evans squeezed off a perfect score of 100 to highlight the weekly shoot at the Brandon Junior Rifle Club last night.
A group of 150 Brandon teenagers gathered in the YMCA for a Hi-Y day of discussions, sports, skits, a dinner and a dance. Spotlighted during the afternoon were a series of group discussions on Canada’s internal and external futures.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Real Estate Board handled 328 listings in 1973 and sales in real estate to a dollar value of $2,589,800.
Larry Desjardins, defeated June 28 by Liberal Paul Marion in the provincial constituency of St. Boniface, resigned as minister of tourism, recreation and cultural affairs.
FORTY YEARS AGO
After weeks of taunting from Progressive Conservatives, Manitoba’s NDP government used its majority early today to advance a bill that will guarantee bilingual government services in the province.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon’s three Liberal riding associations held their annual meeting to elect new executives. The new executives for the Brandon-Souris federal riding association include Elizabeth Roberts, president; Donna Rempel, vice-president; Ross Poole, treasurer; Brenda Popko, secretary; and Ross Playter, past-president.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The province’s school year will begin after Labour Day weekend for the next five years, Education, Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson announced. The minister noted there will be 194 school days in 2004-05 and at least 184 must be used for student instruction.
TEN YEARS AGO
“Leadership” and “experience” are two words Rick Chrest says he’s using to describe his mayoral campaign leading up to the 2014 Brandon municipal election. The local businessman and former city councillor announced his intention to seek the mayor’s job Friday morning at the Riverbank Discovery Centre, in front of about 50 supporters.
A 69-year-old man died on Friday after a crash on a slippery highway near Gladstone. Two other people were injured. Police say that Richard Gutowski of Neepawa was in a car travelling east on Highway 16, late Friday morning, when the vehicle spun out of control and struck a westbound pickup. Gutowski was pronounced dead at the scene.