30 Years Ago

Norman Regional Development Corporation manager Dennis Hindson was preparing a brief to be presented at a CRTC meeting in Ottawa March 25, where he would be recommending satellite receivers as the way for northern communities to receive more television channels.

Snow Lake edged Thompson 8-7 to tie their best-of-five Norman Junior Hockey League playoff series at one game apiece. Thompson had won the opening game 7-3.

20 Years Ago

Eleven groups performed at the Thompson Playhouse's annual Beer & Skits night, touching everything from Rudy the Raven's Newfoundland wife to Thompson being declared the 53rd state. Magnum T.I.s had the longest skit, lasting over 15 minutes.

R.D. Parker Collegiate hosted the seventh annual hug-in, with 200 students and adults from Northern Manitoba gathering for a weekend free of alcohol, tobacco, junk food and other chemical substances.

10 Years Ago

Geoff Lamontagne and Sandy Little, appearing before city council to give an update on how the ski hill was trying to overcome a $30,000 deficit, said changing the name to Myster Mountain Winter Park reflected the decision to diversify by adding snowboarding, snowtubing and tobogganing.

A letter from Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh informed Thompson city council that his department's conclusion was that there should be no new remand centre established in Northern Manitoba, in part because the number of Northern Manitoba youth in custody had dropped from 25 per cent of all youth offenders in 1993 to just eight per cent.