30 Years Ago
Fifty-one people participated in the YWCA stroll-a-thon, raising $1,728 by completing a 10-mile walking route.
There was a complaint of dangerous use of a firearm in an apartment building.
20 Years Ago
There were 11 female RCMP members at the local detachment, making up nearly a quarter of the Thompson officers, as the national police force celebrated the 15th anniversary of the first female Mounties.
Koralee Bengert, a 17-year-old Grade 11 student at R.D. Parker Collegiate, was chosen as a member of Teen Generation magazine's advisory board after submitting a story about surviving a car accident on Highway 6 to the magazine.
10 Years Ago
It took only 14 polls and 50 minutes for CBC to declare incumbent NDP MLA Steve Ashton re-elected for his sixth term as Thompson's representative in the Manitoba legislature. Ashton won every poll in every community.
The Thompson General Hospital was now equipped with a video endoscope, which allows doctors to look at the inside of a person's bowels, lungs or stomach using fibre optics and a full-colour video screen.
