Looking Back — May 31, 2024

SIXTY YEARS AGO

City council last night put teeth into the parking bylaw clause, which limits parking at any one meter to one hour. Third and final reading was given to the bylaw amendment, making it possible to enforce the regulation.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The Manitoba legislature’s law amendments committee has removed Brandon’s Keystone Centre from the list of buildings in the Centennial Projects Tax Status Act, but the building is still to be tax-exempt.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s 700 members voted by mail-in ballot to elect six new faces to its board of directors. They are: Ed Barringham, Anna Hunt-Binkley, Don Kille, Doug Murray, Don Pottinger and Ted Wilton.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Deputy mayor Jim Reid and Brandon Access committee co-chair Sheila Somers raised the flag at city hall to kick off National Access Awareness Week. The week focuses on increasing awareness and visibility of people with disabilities.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Former governor general Ed Schreyer was in Brandon this weekend. Schreyer, who is chancellor of Brandon University, spoke during a BU Foundation luncheon at the Victoria Inn last week and addressed graduation ceremonies this weekend. Then, last night Schreyer, the NDP premier of Manitoba from 1969-77, addressed a party fundraising dinner where he and longtime Brandon East MLA Len Evans, who served in the Schreyer government, were speakers.

TEN YEARS AGO

Brandon police Chief Ian Grant can add another medal to his uniform. At Brandon University’s convocation ceremonies on Friday, the chief was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal after graduating with his master’s degree in rural development.

Habitat for Humanity Manitoba has spent more than $250,000 on repairs to “poor quality” homes built by the former Habitat Brandon affiliate, according to the organization’s spokesperson. Michelle Pereira, Habitat Manitoba’s vice-president of marketing and communications, said they identified 12 homes that needed to be brought up to code, and began the work in November 2013.

A series of three storms blew through Westman Thursday, dumping more than 30 millimetres of rain in some places as well as knocking branches off trees and knocking out power in some areas. Environment Canada says Brandon hit a high temperature of 33.2 C around 5 p.m., with humidity pushing the humidex up to 37 C at that hour. That was just a couple of degrees away from setting a record. The hottest May 29 on record for Brandon was in 1988 when temperatures hit 35.2 C at the airport and a full 36 C in the city.