Looking Back — Feb. 15, 2024
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This article was published 15/02/2024 (581 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
For the second time in 17 days, an anonymous bomb scare phone call sent Brandon students out into the cold yesterday while police and firemen searched a city school. Vincent Massey High School was the bomb hoaxer’s target this time. Park Elementary School was threatened Jan. 28. No bombs were found.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Jack Gibson, a sportswriter with The Brandon Sun, scored 51 points last night to lead the Sun Superstars to an 82-57 victory over the Virden Golden Bears varsity boys’ basketball team.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Competing in his favourite distance, Gaetan Boucher of St. Hubert, Que., picked up Canada’s first gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics today in the men’s 1,000-metre speed skating event.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
A serious rift has developed around the Brandon City Council table that may not be resolved until the next election. And the stage has been set for a showdown over Sunday shopping — the issue that has thrust the political polarization of councillors into the spotlight.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brent Scales of Swan River did the unthinkable this weekend. He beat Jeff Stoughton in Brandon. Scales, 36, claimed the provincial men’s curling championship with a stunning 7-6 victory over Stoughton’s heavily favoured Charleswood team in the Safeway Select final at the Keystone Centre.
Paul Martin gambled his political life Sunday by boldly promising to resign if the facts prove he had prior knowledge of a federal sponsorship scheme that funnelled $100 million in taxpayers’ money to friends of the Liberal party.
TEN YEARS AGO
Hundreds of job applications have flooded into Sand Hills Casino management as the province’s newest gaming centre is set to open in the spring. The 31,000-square-foot casino, which was formerly known as the Spirit Sands Casino, is being built on Swan Lake First Nation land near Highway 5 south of Carberry.
Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Larry Maguire is asking residents if he is “on the right track” or “on the wrong track” so far in representing the riding. The new MP, officially sworn in late last month, recently sent out his first “householder” mailout, which includes a two-question survey.
A season that began with so much promise and the hope of reaching the national championship ended in devastating fashion for the Brandon University Bobcats women’s volleyball team on Friday night. The Bobcats, who have been ranked second in Canadian Interuniversity Sport since the middle of January, exited the Canada West conference playoffs in the quarter-finals with a 3-1 (29-31, 25-18, 25-23, 25-19) loss to the unranked University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat at the Healthy Living Centre.