Looking Back — May 30, 2024

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This article was published 30/05/2024 (526 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Awarding of a $243,576 contract for the complete renovation of the new home of the Brandon Sun, to Malcom Construction Co. Ltd., was announced today by L.D. Whitehead, president of Sun Publishing Co. Ltd., and publisher of the Sun. Renovation of the former John Deere building at Fifth Street and Rosser Avenue is part of a $550,000 expansion program by the Sun, which includes the purchase and installation of a new press.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Two businessmen have opened a stable southeast of the city. R.C. Thompson and G.C. Traill have started T and T Stables which will be managed by David Cook, another Brandonite.

Celina Godmaire, supervisor of the commercial sewing show at ARM Industries, cut the ribbon to officially open the 10,000- square-foot addition to the workshop plant on Van Horne Avenue at Third Street.

FORTY YEARS AGO

City council decided to call tenders for the site of the former Prince Edward Hotel rather than accept an offer of $75,000 from a group proposing to build a senior citizens complex.

City council will formally ask the Manitoba Public Utilities Board for permission to raise bus fares by 35 cents in two stages. This would boost fares from 40 cents to 60 cents on Sept. 1 and then to 75 cents the following September.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Ben Schachter, a 1934 Brandon College student in Brandon this weekend for the Class of 34’s 60th reunion, is the scientist who discovered how to isolate conjugated estrogen sulphate in pregnant mare urine. He made his breakthrough while doing his biochemistry doctorate at the University of Toronto in the late 1930s but unfortunately did not patent the process.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Brandon University awarded honorary doctorates to Lt.-Gov. Peter M. Liba and Dr. James Brown at its spring convocation ceremonies Saturday.

Service, leadership and commitment to Brandon University is the common tie that binds Dale Severyn and Doug Adams. The Brandon University Foundation honoured Severyn with the Apex Award and the outstanding volunteer fundraiser award at its annual luncheon Friday afternoon.

TEN YEARS AGO

The city’s historic and scenic eastern gateway into the community will be given new life — quite literally — with the replacement of dead and dying trees along First Street North later this fall. Thanks largely to a grant from the Canadian National Railway, in partnership with Communities in Bloom and Tree Canada, the city will plant 60 native spruce trees, most of which will enhance the median on First Street, located south of the intersection with Veterans Way.

On the plus side, it may prevent a few truckers from slamming into the Kemnay bridge. But drivers who commute in or out of Brandon on Highway 1A will be forced to detour on gravel roads as construction begins along the road. The province has closed a two-kilometre stretch of the highway as of Thursday morning, sending drivers around on a gravel road detour.