Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
The Northgate Foursquare Church opened its doors to an affordable housing project at their Cumberland and Burgess Road property, hoping others would follow suit.
“We want to have a neighbourhood feel — a community,” pastor Scott Gaglardi said.
The 16-unit development was still being planned. The church hoped to rent units to low-income families for $650 a month.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
In a real-life Rocky story of an unheralded challenger coming out of nowhere to knock off a champ, the first-year Brian McLean Mid-Island Blazers qualified for the Coy Cup final by upsetting defending champs the New West Beavers two games to one in Pitt Meadows. The Mid-Island men then set their sights on the provincial senior AA hockey championship at 100 Mile House.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
About 20 community workers staged a lunch-hour protest at the constituency office of NDP MLA Evelyn Gillespie. They said children were at risk because social workers faced crushing workloads, staff shortages and a government that seemed to care more about paperwork than people.
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
A grim fiscal picture was painted for school trustees after the province delivered lower-than-anticipated funding.
“We can’t maintain our service levels with that budget — it’s a serious problem” school district secretary-treasurer Bill Burns said.
The district operating budget was due to hit $47.2 million, up 4.1 per cent, but Burns said most of the $1.87-million increase was already spoken for.
Twenty five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Realtors said sales were on the increase, fed largely by low interest rates. The cost of borrowing money had plummeted since sky-high mortgages earlier in the decade. A mortgage, for instance, could be had for as little as 9.25 per cent.
