Looking Back — Jan. 12, 2023
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This article was published 11/01/2023 (712 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Manitoba Hydro began construction of a Brandon control centre, Manitoba Hydro public relations manager S.S. Whitaker announced.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Suzanne Franklin, 11, of Brandon has been named this year’s Easter Seal “Tammy” for Manitoba.
Two Brandon 10-pin bowlers, Bumps Stewart and Nick Chrest, are among 150 Manitoba athletes who are going to Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, today on a sports exchange program.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Brandon came within $300 of being the community with the lowest average income on a Revenue Canada list of 100 communities. Sydney, N.S., was at the bottom with an average income of $10,289, just below Brandon at $10,598.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Two hundred people told Brandon City Council last night they don’t like Sunday shopping.
“Knots Landing,” the prime-time soap opera starring Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee and Ted Shackelford, will air its last show this season after 14 years. It is TV’s third longest-running dramatic series ever. Only “Gunsmoke” and “Dallas” lasted longer.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Fourteen-year-old Jeffrey Morrell was bouncing with excitement as he waited to board a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Brandon airport. The youngster, a member of the Neepawa air cadet squadron, flew around the Brandon area with about 30 of his fellow cadets in the aircraft. Other squadrons from the Westman area such as Brandon, Portage, Melita and Strathclair were also taking familiarization flights on the C-130 Hercules throughout the day.
TEN YEARS AGO
From the mechanical system to the pool liner and waterslide, Brandon’s Community Sportsplex is in need of more than $1 million in upgrades. Perry Roque, the city’s community services director, said they were holding off on the work until a decision was made on the 2017 Canada Summer Games bid.
The Westman branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association discriminated against an employee when it fired the woman over a “perceived addiction” to alcohol, an adjudicator has ruled. The association has been ordered to pay lost wages and damages to the Brandon woman.