Looking Back — Aug. 27, 2010
0 Comments | Brandon Sun, The, Aug 27, 2010 | by Arthur, Cathy
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Work on a $200,000 pipeline project linking the Anglo-Canadian Oil Company in Brandon with the Alberta oil fields through the interprovincial pipeline is underway and the installation should be completed by Oct. 31.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Work will begin this fall on the new Brandon College residence and dining hall. D.R. MacKay, college registrar, said bids will be called on the second stage of the $3-million expansion program shortly after completion of work on the Arts and Library building and the lecture theatre late in September. The residence, when completed, will accommodate 152 students. The dining hall will handle 300 students at one sitting and the one-storey building will include an unfinished basement.
Reinhard Strueb, his wife and son have arrived in Brandon where Mr. Strueb will teach arts at high schools and instruct art classes at the Allied Arts Centre for adults, children and teachers.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Today marks official grand opening of the Lucky Star Drive-In Theatre at its new location three miles south of Brandon on Highway 10. The event includes free stagecoach rides, free pony rides, an airplane fly-past with lucky entry form scramble in addition to free bingo games for merchandise and prizes. “Never Too Late” starring Paul Ford, Connie Stevens, Maureen O’Sullivan and Jim Hutton will be the special show for the night with Walt Disney’s featurette “Men Against the Arctic” as an added attraction. The drive in was officially opened by Cornwallis Reeve P.G.W. Marsden, who cut the ribbon.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Winnipeg Tribune and the Ottawa Journal were shut down today, throwing almost 750 employees out of work, as Canada’s two largest newspaper groups cut some of their losses in a series of dramatic moves that shook the Canadian newspaper world.
More employees of Behlen-Wickes Co. Ltd. have been laid off as the company continues to adjust its workforce to a declining number of work orders. A total of 96 employees have been laid off by the firm since September of 1979.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Newspapers in Calgary and radio stations in Toronto poked fun at the Pickle Festival but it appears to have gone over well with Brandonites. Carol Maggiacomo, manager of the Downtown Brandon Business Improvement Area which organized the festival, estimated that 6,000 to 8,000 people came downtown this weekend to celebrate the gherkin.
Brandon Mayor Rick Borotsik and city councillors spent more than $15,000 travelling on city business in the last eight months, with the mayor and Coun. Arnold Grambo leading the way.
Grammy-winning blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was among five people killed early today near East Troy, Wis., when their helicopter slammed into a hill in dense fog after leaving a concert. The other victims were three members of rock star Eric Clapton’s entourage and a pilot.
TEN YEARS AGO
What does Brandon’s Central United Church have in common with the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York? All three buildings have had stained glass installed by Robert McCausland Limited, a Toronto company founded in 1839. Andrew McCausland — the company’s president and the great, great grandson of its founder, Joseph McCausland — is in Brandon to install a stained glass window depicting the nativity above the balcony on the east side of Central United’s main sanctuary
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