TUESDAY March 3, 2015 Vol. 30 • No. 18 ••• $1.25 inc. G.S.T.
COMOX VALLEY
ARTS
SPORTS
Sarah Hagen... and friends ... on the Sid Williams piano page 11
Bradley Teasdale named BC Minor Baseball Player of the Year page 21
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Bye bye, Baybrook Comox council votes to tear down contentious house Erin Haluschak Record Staff
Community cares about Courtenay family ... Page 3
Pallbearers carry the casket to the hearse after the ceremony, with military personnel saluting their fallen peer. PHOTO BY SCOTT STANFIELD
Toy library faces uncertain future ... Page 4 The Baby Grant fundraising garage sale at NIC was a huge success.
Military funeral for SAR Tech Sgt. Salesse, who graduated in 2005, trained at 19 Wing Scott Stanfield Record Staff
It will cost more to camp in provincial campgrounds this year.
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at 19 Wing Comox to honour the memory of Sgt. Mark Salesse, who died during a military training exercise Feb. 5 at Polar Circus near Banff, Alta.
The 44-year-old, Winnipegbased Search and Rescue Technician — who had trained at 19 Wing before graduating into the SAR Tech profession in 2005 — had completed an ascent and was on his way down when an avalanche swept him off the side of a narrow cliff. A six-day search ensued but was hindered by poor weather. Before Saturday’s service, a funeral procession of about 20 vehicles escorted the casket from the Comox Valley Funeral Home
to the base. The pallbearer party included SAR Techs from various corners of Canada. “Mark was a friend to everyone,” his mother Liz Quinn said at the service. “He was the loving threads that held the colourful quilt of friends together. And by the many gathered here today, he saw beauty in each of you, and you in him.” The service concluded with a fly-past of a SAR aircraft and a firing volley.
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Comox council voted in favour of removing the remaining structures from the Baybrook/Mack Laing Park property Wednesday in order to return the property to a natural state for passive recreation use. In a report to council, Richard Kanigan, the town's chief administrative officer, confirmed the remaining structures are in poor condition. Situated at 70 Orchard Park Drive, Mack Laing's house has been at the centre of discussion since June last year, as the Comox Valley Naturalists Society and Project Watershed asked council for a delay on demolition. Council asked for an assessment to determine if the structures (including the main house), which were in sufficiently poor condition, were worth saving. The report determined the cost of renovating and saving the building would exceed the cost of reconstruction, and the plan was to remove the structure and return the property to a natural, park-like state. The groups enlisted a team of biologists, planners, engineers and historians to examine two homes: 'Baybrook' and 'Shakesides.' In their report, the committee determined due to flooding, 'Shakesides' is structurally unsound and cannot be salvaged in the long-term.
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