Looking Back — May 24, 2024
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SIXTY YEARS AGO
A new Kinsmen club was born in western Manitoba at the charter night of the Souris Kinsmen Club.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Lars-Erik Sjoberg, a 28-year-old defenceman, became the third member of the Swedish national team to sign a multi-year contract with Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.
FORTY YEARS AGO
An increase of more than $30,000 to the annual tax bill of St. Michael’s Academy may force the centre to close, putting elderly nuns now cared for at the academy into nursing homes.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon School Division has made headway in increasing the number of women employed as administrators. Lois Ross has been appointed vice-principal at King George School and Linda Dyck vice-principal at Vincent Massey High School. Meanwhile the board announced three principal appointments: Lon Cullen, Betty Gibson School; Pat Bowslaugh, Shilo’s O’Kelly School and Craig Brownlee, George Fitton School.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Two Canadian Pacific Rail employees were injured today after a timber retaining wall fell on two locomotives pulling a train into the Brandon rail yard. “Part of it pushed out and collapsed on the train,” Brandon Fire Capt. Dale Macmillan said about the old wall located immediately east of the First Street bridge. The westbound train’s three employees were all in the lead locomotive just after 2 p.m. when the wall fell against the slowly moving train. The conductor’s arm was injured and the trainee conductor suffered scrapes and bruises, said CPR spokesman Ed Greenberg. Both were treated and released at the Brandon Regional Health Centre. The engineer was not injured.
TEN YEARS AGO
A giant pink anti-bullying blanket made by the Brandon University Anti- Bullying Society is making its way to Ottawa next week. The blanket, which measures 32 feet by 42 feet, is covered by close to 7,000 signatures from students to politicians taking their stand against bullying. Society vice-president Krystal Kayne has spearheaded the blanket campaign.
Some of the most experienced administrators in Manitoba believe the government’s plan to amalgamate close to 50 municipalities prior to the 2014 election is ill-conceived and rushed. Forty-seven mergers have been approved by the province since amalgamations were sprung on municipal officials during the Nov. 19, 2012, throne speech. The partnerships will reduce the number of municipalities outside Winnipeg from 196 to 107, and become effective Jan. 1, 2015.