Looking Back — Jan. 13, 2023
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This article was published 12/01/2023 (615 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Members of the Brandon Industrial Development Commission will remain the same in 1963 as they were during the previous year, industrial commissioner J. Paul Melin announced.
Brandon lost one of its most prominent citizens with the death of Zena May Hurst. She was active in community affairs, an amateur painter of note and a top-flight amateur golfer.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Construction continues in the Brandon General Hospital and Assiniboine Centre and central laboratory adjacent to the Brandon General Hospital on McTavish Avenue. The original building, built in 1921, is undergoing extensive renovation. A new extension is also being constructed. When completed, the building will replace the existing Assiniboine Hospital now located on Queens Avenue.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Even with a $5.8-million budget, there is no money left to pay private lawyers who handle cases for Legal Aid Manitoba.
Despite a year marred by frost, disease and processing plant shutdowns, the canola industry is again calling on Prairie farmers to boost plantings of the oilseed.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Ontario’s industrial heartland suffered another blow yesterday when the president of General Motors Canada announced 1,000 jobs would be cut at the company’s sprawling production complex in Oshawa.
The United States is poised to attack Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said today.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Transportation and Government Services Minister Scott Smith won the NDP nomination in Brandon West by acclamation. About 35 NDP members attending the meeting at Valleyview Community Centre cheered Smith on. Finance Minister Greg Selinger spoke enthusiastically to members who sipped coffee and intermittently bursted into applause.
TEN YEARS AGO
The City of Brandon’s 2013 budget will be finalized today. In preparation for a full day of deliberations, city council spent hours yesterday afternoon and evening listening to budget presentations from department heads. The proposed budget, which was tabled with Brandon City Council on Dec. 3, represents operational spending of $72.2 million.
For the first time since the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, Winnipeg’s two main hospitals are locking down certain children’s units following a spike in respiratory infections. On Friday, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority announced that only parents would be allowed to visit patients at the pediatric intensive care unit, neonatal and intermediate intensive care units at Health Sciences Centre’s Children’s Hospital. St. Boniface Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit has the same restriction to reduce the risk of more infants being exposed to respiratory infections.