Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
A campaign for national electoral reform was set to kick off in Courtenay with a public meeting featuring former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
The meeting developing from a motion on electoral reform tabled by Vancouver Island North MP Catherine Bell. “I think there’s an opportunity for us, with these reminders, that we can stop it. People’s votes should count,” Bell said, referring to ongoing changes in the House of Commons.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Vanier students were set to join a province-wide student walkout later in the month to protest the effect teachers’ job action was having on students.
“We’re just waiting to let them know it’s affecting us in a negative way,” Emma Gordon said on behalf of Vanier’s student government.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Some of B.C.’s best snowboarders were in town when the Canadian national snowboarding tour dropped by Mount Washington. Joined by a healthy contingent of local talent, the boarders busted their best moves in freestyle events, and crashed the gates on a challenging giant slalom course.
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Two high-profile Comox residents joined a February byelection fray.
New faces in the race for the aldermanic seat to be vacated by mayoral candidate Ken Osmond were Old House Restaurant owner Mike McLaughlin and former credit union manager Rick Kellow.
McLaughlin reserved comment until finishing his platform while Kellow said his policy was to “boldly step where no one has gone before.” Aldermen must stop bickering and face hard facts, including the high cost of a park on Comox Hill and the futility of trying to keep the town a “village by the sea,” Kellow said.
Twenty five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
There were 3,400 people claiming unemployment insurance in the Valley last month, up sharply from November’s total of 3,145.
The Canada Employment Centre attributed the rise to the settlement of a forestry dispute that released workers to claim UIC. Fishermen were also partly responsible for the increase.
