Each week we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Two physicians in the new regional hospital debate were named to the task force geared to recommend a location to directors about where a new facility should go.
Dr. Steve Matous from St. Joseph’s Hospital and Dr. Aref Tabarsi from Campbell Rive General have both made numerous presentations regarding the positions.
Matous said, based on the number of specialists and population density here, a new hospital should be within municipal boundaries of the Comox Valley. Tabarsi said having one regional hospital in the Valley is inappropriate because Campbell River needs its hospital.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Union Bay Dive & Kayak is planning its first annual Diver Daze.
The day will feature an outdoor barbecue hosted by Critters Café, an underwater pumpkin carving contest and some fun team events. These team events include underwater box-building, 100×100 foot surface swim relays, and the tired diver tow.
The day will culminate with a group boat dive aboard the MV Saxadomus to Wolf Eel Alley. All proceeds from the event will be donated in the name of Dallas Morrison to the Kids Fight Against Cancer fund.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
A last-minute B.C. Supreme Court order stalled provincial plans to seize Glacier View Lodge.
Less than a day before the government was to pick up the keys, Justice Peter Fraser ordered it to stop until the Glacier View Lodge Society can take its case to court for a final hearing.
The news was welcome to lodge resident Constance Clark. Clark recently drafted a statement, signed by 14 Glacier View residents, protesting a takeover.
“We do not want to be appropriated,” she said, “this greedy [NDP] party and its minions should try another place to fill their coffers.”
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Swimming in the waters off British Columbia, rippling its coiled neck and terrifying the odd pleasure-boater, there appeared to be something very like the Loch Ness monster in almost every particular.
Harvard-educated marine biologist Dr. Ed Bousfield and UBC oceanographer Paul LeBlond have painstakingly gone through the evidence, and concluded that the B.C. version — known as the Cadborosaurus — is very much real.
Twenty-five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Smokers were to face new restrictions in Comox if Ald. Harold Stevens has his way.
The alderman planned to present a bylaw, “hopefully at the next council meeting,” he told the Record. “I’m doing this in order to raise public awareness about smoking.”
Pointing to the wealth of studies on sidestream smoke, Stevens said, “I believe it is a hazard to my health.”
