Welcome to Lake Flashback. Reporter James Goldie has been combing through old newspapers with the assistance of the Kaatza Station Museum and Archives so we can jog your memory, give you that nostalgic feeling, or just a chuckle, as we take a look at what was making headlines this week around Cowichan Lake in years gone by.
This week around the Cowichan Lake…
10 years ago:
The man accused of killing Tammy Nanos on July 29, 2005 has been sentenced to 11 years for manslaughter.
Kenneth Leslie Tisdel, 46, of Lake Cowichan had spent 15 months in jail prior to his sentencing in Duncan.
Nanos, 45, was found stabbed at her home on Madill Road in Lake Cowichan and she was pronounced dead at the Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan. Tisdel, Nanos’s common-law partner, shared the home with her.
Tisdel had been charged with second degree murder, but that charge was stayed when he was found guilty of manslaughter.
25 years ago:
Extra policing for the Walbran protest has already cost more than $169,000 according to Sgt. Ron Merchant of Lake Cowichan RCMP, citing evidence in the trials of protestors where members from his detachment testified.
Last week 18 protestors appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria, 16 of whom were found guilty of criminal contempt of a court order and two of civil contempt.
Those guilty of the former were sentenced to a month in jail and a year’s probation, however, the jail sentences were suspended provided the guilty parties kept the peace and maintained good behaviour, completed between 50 and 100 hours of community service and that they keep at least two kilometres from active logging at tree farms licence 44 and 46.
Those guilty of civil contempt were fined $500 each.
There are six more protestors still awaiting trial.
40 years ago:
The federal government’s Local Initiatives Program (LIP) will create 18 jobs in Lake Cowichan thanks to $57,400 in grants. The allocation is almost half of what was received last year.
The largest project to get approval — and $26,860 — was submitted by the village of Lake Cowichan, to hire 12 workers to undertake the extensive repairs needed to the community hall, as well as improvements to a parcel of land near the sewage system outfall. The village funds may also go towards work on the new footbridge, although village clerk Bob Symes said this was not yet confirmed.
The second project was for the Lake Cowichan and District Activity Centre, which received $20,400 to employ four people for a total of 120 weeks. Two will provide a social and recreation program for Caycuse residents, the other two will assist the alternate education program at LCSS.
Kaatza Day Care received the third grant — $10,200 to hire a full-time and a part-time day care aide.
Compiled by James Goldie, Gazette
