Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Comox Valley resident Julia Davis was called to her living room at 7 p.m. Her son was convinced that a bird was trapped inside the chimney.
When she investigated, Davis was astounded by what she found. “It was hundreds of them,” she said. “You could hear them beating their wings against the inside.”
Davis watched birds enter through the top of her chimney and exit into her living room. “The main flow lasted about seven until midnight,” Davis said.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
For years, the cramped first-floor bathroom of the Comox Valley Crisis Pregnancy Centre had lived in the shadow of the larger, finer bathroom upstairs, waiting to be noticed.
But, the Canadian Home Builders Association awarded the bathroom first prize in its annual Ugly Bathroom Contest, and promised it a free $6,000 makeover.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
The NDP touts itself as the workers’ party, but it’s actually the social workers’ party, says an unemployed man who plans to picket the NDP federal campaign office until the election.
“Actually, I’ll go away if I find a job or the welfare office lets me get some training, but I don’t have much hope of that,” Mike Summers said.
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Headbands, embroidered shirts and protest signs dotted the courthouse lawn as Hornby Island’s High Priest of Pot faced the B.C. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Honcho of Hash predicts his case will prompt a landmark decision striking down marijuana laws across Canada.
Don Hogan’s campaign to legalize pot hinges on religious freedom, Shadrick Cain said. “You can find all kinds of protection for established churches, but when someone demands to start his own church, that’s different,” said Cain.
Twenty-five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Brent, 17, was picked up by police in a bush area several miles out of town.
Just hours earlier he had pushed his mother against the fridge. It was a climax to months of bizarre behaviour, claims that people were out to get him, and Brent’s desperate attempts to get someone to understand what he was going through.
He was actually building up to psychotic episode in a disorder that would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia.
