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COMOX VALLEY RECORD • Friday, September 21, 2012
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Grade configuration was top of mind for parents Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: It might have been called a public forum on school closures in the Comox zone, but a meeting of School District 71 had more participants wanting to talk about the new kindergarten-throughGrade 8 configuration. “I would like to see it scrapped,” said a man regarding the configuration. “The middle school model has the tools they need, gerry-rigged schools will not.” Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: Yippee, yahoo, it was Round-Up time in the Comox Valley to help support the Kidney Foundation of Canada. On Oct. 2 and 3 a western style ‘jail’ was to be set up in the Driftwood Mall and all those bosses who may have forgot an employee’s birthday or maybe didn’t wash that coffee cup had better beware as a simple little phone call could mean your ‘arrest.’ Event co-ordinator Barbara Dennis explains “a posse of sheriffs and their deputies will ‘arrest’ bosses and top guns at their place of business, based on a crime provided by the office staff or work colleagues. The bosses are brought to the mock county jail where a
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THIS POSTCARD DEPICTS Courtenay from a Back Road perspective. Handwritten on the back is Urquhart farm, 1911. The return address on this postcard is HMCS Rainbow, Comox B.C. and it was mailed to Alberta on Feb. 27, 1911. 972.241.2 PHOTO COURTESY COURTENAY AND DISTRICT MUSEUM
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Not all of us have been brutally raped in a back alley, but all of us, because we are women, live with that fear.
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judge always finds them “guilty.” The guilty verdict gets the offender one hour jail time. Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: A Courtenay resident was $1 million richer after drawing all six numbers in Saturday’s BC/49 Lottery. No one had stepped forward to claim the
money, although the senior communications officer for B.C. Lottery Corporation, Elizabeth Bruce, confirmed that a ticket sold in Courtenay won the top prize. This was the second big prize to go to someone in the Comox Valley in recent weeks. “It seems
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