Looking Back — Jan. 3, 2023

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This article was published 02/01/2023 (721 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Brandon city police are hunting two men who assaulted the owner of the Brechka Grocery during an attempted robbery.

Five Brandon Wheat Kings have been named to the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s all-star team. They are Tracy Pratt, Bobby Stoyko, Bobby Brown, Dave Janaway and Jerry Korp.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The Montreal Organization Committee for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games today announced it has signed a $25-million contract with the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) for the television rights.

One of the most familiar sights along Rosser Avenue for many years has been Stuart’s News and Cigar Store. Herb Stuart, who opened for business June 1, 1936, recently announced that he is retiring. He was probably better known to sports buffs as an outstanding professional goaltender, turning pro in 1924 with Edmonton and then two years later with the Detroit Red Wings.

FORTY YEARS AGO

For the first three years of this decade, business bankruptcies in Manitoba have almost matched the same total recorded for the 1970s, federal bankruptcy office figures show.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler says he hopes to open an abortion clinic in Winnipeg by March 1.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Two Brandon lawyers have been appointed as Queen’s Counsel by Manitoba Justice Minister Jim McCrae. Donald Little, a partner with the firm of Roy, Johnston and Co., and Donald Pratt, a managing partner in the firm of Meighen, Haddad and Co., were among 11 Manitoba lawyers selected by a special review committee.

U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, clinking glasses in a farewell toast yesterday, offered the world a “joint New Year’s gift” — a treaty sharply reducing their most threatening nuclear weapons.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

The $10 parking ticket hit for meter violations is adding up to an even higher cost in lost business for downtown merchants, says Joe Thomassen. The owner of a Rosser Avenue jewelry store is calling on fellow core businesses to push the city to lower parking tickets from $10 to $3.

The number of cancer patients in the Westman area will increase enough by 2008 to justify running a radiation therapy unit at the Brandon Regional Health Centre, says Linda Venus, a CancerCare Manitoba official. CancerCare says the number of new cancer cases in Manitoba will increase by 45 to 54 per cent between 1998 and 2025. The projected number of cases in the Brandon Regional Health Authority’s catchment area is slightly lower, but CancerCare says in five years there will be enough patients in the area to keep a radiation therapy unit busy.

TEN YEARS AGO

A Winnipeg rapper has some kind words for Brandon after his local fans, a bus driver and police helped him get his girlfriend’s stolen purse back. “I love Brandon, I will definitely be coming back,” said the rapper, who asked to go by his stage name, Daily. He said the purse-snatching happened while he was in town to perform at the North Hill Inn on New Year’s Eve.