Every week we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.
Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Call it stealth on two wheels.
Instead of starting their shift in a police cruiser, three Mounties with the Comox Valley RCMP detachment used two-wheel pedal power to police the community.
“The role of the bike patrol is we can get to areas where you can’t get in a cruiser,” noted seven-year Mountie Const. Chris Backus.
Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
A Canadian Forces member training to become a search and rescue technician survived a fall of more than 1,000 metres late Tuesday morning after his parachute malfunctioned.
“I’m not really religious,” said the aspiring CFB Comox SARtech Glenn Hood, “but it had to be divine intervention that I survived.”
Trailing three tangled parachutes, Hood landed in dense undergrowth. He suffered a fractured vertebra, fractured heel and some soft tissue damage, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Construction crews broke ground on the Boston Pizza restaurant site in front of Driftwood Mall earlier this week. The eatery will be teamed up with a Burger King franchise on the same site.
The other construction going on at Driftwood Mall is for the new Rialto Theatres, being built by Landmark Cinemas of Calgary.
Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
Comox Valley’s Jason Bowen became the first ever local minor hockey product to be selected in the first round of the NHL entry draft Saturday in Montreal.
Bowen said he had talks with just about every team in the NHL leading up to the draft, with Boston Bruins coming on strong in the late-going. However, he’s looking forward to joining the Philadelphia Flyers and becoming part of their hard-hitting, forechecking team.
Twenty-five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record:
“Mr. Paul Klem has several beehives,” wrote Anne Ball in a letter to the Comox Council bearing five other signatures. “They are creating a real problem for all of us on the street. The bees are leaving dropping on our cars, trucks, laundry and homes that have light coloured siding.”
In an interview, Klem said, “I wish these people had said something to me. They just wrote the town … I think it’s a little unfair. Seagulls do this kind of thing all the time and nobody writes to council about them.”
