Skateboard park planning begins

Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.

Five years ago

this week in the Comox Valley Record:

More than 40 children and adults showed up to a design meeting for the new skateboard park on Lerwick Road last Friday.

Participants huddled with planning committee members and consultants from Spectrum and Space 2 Place, coming up with their wish list for the park.

“We said, ‘If you could have anything that you want, tell us,’” Comox Coun. Ray Crossley, a member of the skateboard park planning committee, told Comox council Wednesday.

The kids all drew features they wanted to see. Consultants took the drawings and will come back with a concept of the park for another design session Nov. 24.

The kids will get a chance to fine-tune the concept at that meeting. Then consultants will come back with a final concept that the committee will present to the Valley’s municipal councils, explained committee member Randy Wiwchar.

Ten years ago

this week in the Comox Valley Record:

The Comox Valley Women’s Resource Centre said it was outraged over two “offensive” signs erected on the outside of the Courtenay House bar and strip club.

And they were asking the City of Courtenay to regulate the content of signs through a bylaw.

Emma Payton, program co-ordinator at the women’s centre, said they had received three complaints from women who were upset about the degrading images and message.

Adorning the west side of the building was a sign with a stylized woman’s figure, showing her bare butt cheeks and the outline of her chest. The sign also advertised the featured dancers and current shows. On the east face of the building was the same stylized dancer’s figure.

“These signs portraying exotic dancers and announcing the upcoming acts are an affront to women, men and children of this community,” said Payton.

Fifteen years ago

this week in the Comox Valley Record:

The B.C. Winter Games flame will burn at the entrance to Courtenay until the Games are over, society president Jim Odo told guests and dignitaries at the torch-lighting ceremony Friday.

“They will be a constant reminder that the Games will be held, and we will need all the help we can get,” said Odo, urging the public to get involved.

An Aurora aircraft from CFB Comox flew a low-altitude pass over the ceremony, as MLA Margaret Lord and B.C. Gas director of communications Cam Every lit the flame. They used a torch passed to them by marathon runner Steven Royer.

“The flame we ignite tonight will be a beacon that will light the way for the best athletes in B.C. and focus the attention of the entire province on the Comox Valley,” said Lord.

Twenty years ago

this week in the Comox Valley Record:

Junk mail protesters claimed victory after confronting publishers of local newspapers on Wednesday.

Publisher George Le Masurier told protesters outside the E.W. Bickle print shop that his company would stop delivering the North Island News to people who didn’t want it.

The protesters returned hundreds of rejected copies of the paper and asked Le Masurier to recycle them.

At the same time, the protesters handed over a handful of copies of the Record to employees of the firm, who assured them the papers would be recycled.

The Record has always had a policy of stopping delivery when requested, publisher Jay Luchsinger noted later.

The protest at E.W. Bickle came on the heels of a trick-or-treat trip to the Courtenay Post Office at noon Oct. 31.

Some 50 protesters returned junk mail by the wheelbarrow load to the post office in their Mail Junky Rebellion.

+More Lifestyles Headlines
<Back to Mobile Edition