Looking Back — April 4, 2024

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This article was published 04/04/2024 (897 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

A top price of $500 was paid by Gordon Hunter of Nesbitt for a year-old Yorkshire sow due to farrow later this month at the Manitoba Winter Fair brood sow sale yesterday. Owner of the sow was Harold Poole of Kemnay. The sale average for 73 sows offered was $155.20, up from the 1963 sale, when 79 sows sold for an average of $120.

Anglo-Canadian Oils Ltd. announced a new service of propane gas for western Manitoba. This versatile fuel is destined to play an increasingly important role in homes, on farms and in the business and industrial communities.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Habok Brothers of Kemnay scored almost a complete sweep of Hereford bull classes yesterday as their polled bulls were not only named grand and reserve grand champions of the show, but also showed the top pair of bulls and the best lot of three bulls in the show.

Fred Gilbert drove Cambridge Fire Ball and Cambridge Flashy Ronnie to victory in the pair of hackney ponies event last night at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair light horse show.

FORTY YEARS AGO

William Ryan was elected to a two-year term as grand master of the Orange Lodge of Manitoba.

Supporters and opponents of the Garrison Diversion Project in North Dakota took their arguments to a subcommittee of the U.S. Congress.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Councillors voted 8-2 to overrule an administration recommendation to give an expensive tender for road work to Maple Leaf Construction of Winnipeg and instead award the tender to the second-lowest bidder, local business C & C Construction.

Fisheries officials are unable to explain the death of fish in Lake Minnedosa. Dead fish have been found at the bottom of the dam that creates the lake, and upstream it has been found that “dead water” had been flowing in from the Little Saskatchewan River.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute will receive $300,000 over the next three years to support its rural development activities. The funds aim to support a variety of activities designed to increase the base of knowledge and skills required to support community economic development in rural Manitoba.

TEN YEARS AGO

The contract dispute between the City of Brandon and its firefighters is now in the hands of the arbitrator. Lawyers representing the city and the Brandon Professional Firefighters/Paramedics Association each submitted their case to the arbitration board over two and a half days. On Thursday, the hearing came to a close. The arbitrator’s decision is expected within the next two or three months.

Manitoba potato producers are pricing themselves out of the market. Christine Wentworth, McCain Foods’ vice-president of agriculture for North America, said the province is becoming a high-cost producer, sounding alarms that further cuts could be headed the industry’s way.

Fred Penner’s power to elicit nostalgia among adults and excitement among children was on full display at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair yesterday. Penner, the famed children’s songwriter, performed in the Keystone Amphitheatre twice — both times in front of a packed room — to play old favourites for the ’80s kids and new sing-a-longs for today’s youngsters.