Five years ago
• A flight instructor and his student survived a crash after the plane’s engine lost power and forced them down into trees in a Qualicum Beach neighbourhood. The aircraft struck some trees, flipped over into a backyard on Fern Road. The pair sustained non-life threatening injuries.
10 years ago
• The District 69 School Board rescinded its present policy regarding the Early French Immersion program, in the interest of expanding the program in the future.
• Politicians from both sides of the legislature said no matter how you look at it, the fact was that a former premier was facing criminal charges in connection to the casino-licensing scandal that led to his resignation.
20 years ago
• Seniors’ interests clashed with those of young families during a public hearing into rezoning land for a new Nanoose Bay elementary school. The land is currently zoned multi-family residential, but was under application to be zoned for public assembly use.
