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COMOX VALLEY RECORD • Friday, September 23, 2011
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Film sneak previews soon World Community is once again presenting its challenging documentary film series at the North Island College Theatre, featuring Best of Fest screenings. There will also be sneak previews of films that will be featured in the 2012 World Community Film Festival in February. The first screening will be Dirty Business: Clean Coal and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Dirty Business reveals the true
social and environmental costs of coal, examining what it means to be so dependent upon a 19th-century technology that is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. It goes on to tell the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative green energy future Dirty Business seeks answers in a series of stories shot in China, Saskatchewan, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada and New York. Admission is by donation. — World Community Films
IN THIS VIEW from the now-gone Comox Wharf, you can see buildings that include the Elk Hotel, Robb barnhouse and Rodello Store. PHOTO COURTESY OF COMOX ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM
Four-storey hotel in Comox? Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues. Five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: A waterfront boardwalk, tiered seating for events and a series of public-access stores with restaurant and coffee shop under a hotel were among the plans for Marina Park by Comox Bay Land Investments. Even with that scenario based on a proposed 50,000square-foot land swap with the Town, and a four-storey hotel, company president Mike Hawitt said feedback was positive. Comox Valley Economic Development officer John Watson said the proposal would be a big step towards revitalizing the area. Ten years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: Longtime Comox clerk-administrator Helen Dale died suddenly from an apparent heart attack Sept. 19 during a cycling trip to Denman Island. Mayor George Kirkwood said news of Dale’s death came as a shock to her family and friends. “This is so hard to believe,” he said. “Helen was so hard-working and full of life, determined and kind. She was too young, she was only in her early-60s.” Council cancelled its weekly meeting but appointed Richard Kanigan, who had been Dale’s assistant, as interim administrator. Fifteen years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: Plans for the aquatic centre included a wave pool, a 25-metre, eight-
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STANFIELD lane pool and a water slide, the Comox Valley Sports Centre Commission announced. The 3,200-squaremetre aquatic centre is to be built at North Island College, pending the outcome of a referendum. The proposal also included a 3,900square-metre ice arena added to the Sports Centre. Twenty years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: Election campaigns were smoking up the track as four candidates prepared to carry their party’s colours into the fray locally, anticipating an election call by Premier Rita Johnston. Social Credit MLA
Stan Hagen expected a close contest from a field of challengers including Margaret Lord of the NDP, Alicia Burns of the Liberals and Richard Porter of the Green Party. Twenty five years ago this week in the Comox Valley Record: Conservation officers had their hands full with bear complaints this year — and it was
going to worsen, according to a local CO. Bears, heading into the lower populated regions because of poor berry crops in higher wilderness areas, were sighted everywhere from downtown Courtenay to downtown Campbell River. A bear trap had even bet set up near Vanier Secondary School. There were 58 bear complaints in August.
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