Featuring headline stories from the Goldstream B次元官网网址 Gazette over the past 30 years.

2006

Sooke Road residents are experiencing flooding after a recent storm dumps 100 millimetres of rain on Greater Victoria in 24 hours. At his basement apartment, Clayton ShawB次元官网网址檚 first step in the morning was into ankle-high water. After opening the door, a river poured in like a cartoon, or a bad dream. A handful of other residents have been flooded out of their 2600-block Sooke Road apartments in Langford. B次元官网网址淚t was a complete and utter surprise,B次元官网网址� Shaw says. B次元官网网址淣othing was wrong until 9 a.m. and then water started rushing in. Everything two feet down was destroyed.B次元官网网址�

Also making news the week of Nov. 11, 2006:

Before sheB次元官网网址檚 even hit her teens, Jeneece Edroff is inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame. Edroff, a champion fundraiser who suffers from neurofibromatosis, a form of cancer, says helping others gives her hope.

And, a Transportation Safety Board investigation reveals that mechanical failure led to the death of Duncan Ruth, a popular Metchosin pilot, and his co-pilot, Clayton Shearcroft. The pair died on Nov. 3, 2005 after their heavy-lift helicopter crashed in a remote area about 20 minutes flying time from Bella Coola.

1996

High school rowers are benefiting from Royal Roads facilities. Since September, members of the Belmont secondary rowing team have been practising out of the Royal Roads University facility on Esquimalt Lagoon. In previous years they had to use the training centre on Elk Lake in Saanich. During its years as a military college, the rowing facility wasnB次元官网网址檛 open to the public. But when Belmont coach Michelle Choma heard that the new civilian university might make it available, she made a few phone calls and got Belmont set up at the facility. She attributes the renewed interest in rowing to CanadaB次元官网网址檚 recent medal haul at the Atlanta Olympics.

Also making the news the week of Nov. 11, 1996:

The Belmont boysB次元官网网址� soccer club ends its best season in decades, reaching the Colonist Cup playoffs. B次元官网网址淭hey had a really good season and I think making it to the playoffs for the first time in 20 years says it all for the team,B次元官网网址� says head coach Daryl Campbell.

1986

Metchosin council has not ruled out the possibility of creating more industrial zones in the district, but council gives third reading to two documents designed to preserve the rural nature of the community.

Council wants to adopt the municipalityB次元官网网址檚 first-ever Official Community Plan and land-use bylaw before considering creating any new industrial zones, says Ald. Geoff Hadley.

Adds Ald. Ted Stevens, B次元官网网址淲e donB次元官网网址檛 know yet what types of industry weB次元官网网址檇 like to see and where we want them to locate, but finding out is a high priority.B次元官网网址�

Also making the news the week of Nov. 11, 1986:

Aboriginal anglers from Saanich werenB次元官网网址檛 expecting the salmon they caught in the Goldstream River to take on an eerie glow, but thatB次元官网网址檚 just what happened, as the fish were being hung near the smokehouse fire Wednesday evening. The fish turned a B次元官网网址渃urious whiteB次元官网网址� colour.

Band members decided to have the federal fisheries department analyze a portion of one of the fish. A harmless bacteria was responsible for the soft glow, the Department of Fisheries says, and the bacteria did not pose any health hazard.

B次元官网网址� Compiled by Joel Tansey