Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
In looking back toward tradition and forward to a sustainable future, the MudGirls Natural Building Collective said it has rediscovered the alternative for which many people are searching.
Using soils and rock from the earth, wood from nearby beaches and forests, and by recycling materials like coloured bottles, broken pottery and tiles, car tires and windshields, they say they have been building beautiful, unique, energy-efficient and inexpensive homes for themselves and with others.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
“The day I let some panel of complete strangers decide whether I can or can’t have a tubal ligation is the day Hell freezes over!” Abbotsford resident Shelly McQuillan said after learning that St. Joseph’s General Hospital requires women who want the surgery to apply for permission from a panel.
The Catholic Church holds that all forms of deliberate sterilization are immoral; St. Joseph’s allows it only if pregnancy would endanger the women’s health, or have other negative consequences.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Tension was building as veterinarians and pharmacists clashed over whether pharmacists have the right and responsibility to sell animal vaccines to pet owners for administration.
Local vet Dr. Stacey Gastis argued that allowing pet owners to administer shots at home can be potentially dangerous, but pharmacist Linda Gutenberg argued clients have the right to administer vaccines at home and should have the choice to do so.
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
A mother’s request to send her handicapped daughter to Highland was turned down by the school board after a closed-door discussion. Handicapped students are sent to Vanier Secondary because it’s wheelchair accessible.
School board secretary-treasurer Bill Burns said, “We do what we can to put kids in neighborhood schools in elementary school and junior high. After that, they go to Vanier.”
Twenty-five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Both Highland and G.P. Vanier high school Grade 12 graduation ceremonies will go ahead as planned.
Vanier principal Allan Meney says his school’s graduation is schedule to go ahead whether or not the B.C. Teachers’ Federation work-to-rule campaign is still o
Neither he nor Highland principal Gary Fukushima would comment on whether teachers would participate in the ceremonies.
