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Welcome to Lake Flashback. Reporter Lexi Bainas has been combing through old newspapers with the assistance of the Kaatza Station Museum and Archives so we can jog your memory, give you that nostalgic feeling, or just a chuckle, as we take a look at what was making headlines this week around Cowichan Lake in years gone by.

Business notes

Winter was long this year, but so is July.

Crews are engaging a 1.7-hectare wildfire near the Robertson Main 11km mark about 15 kilometres slightly southeast of Mesachie Lake.

No confidence votes expected later this month

It’s been 70 years of community service for the Honeymoon Bay Fire Rescue.

“Today it’s a kitten. Tomorrow it could be a child.”

The time is now to invest in public transit, and not just buses, but rail, too.

Hitching a ride in a neighbour’s trailer brought a cat unexpectedly to Cowichan Lake from Victoria

Hall has also been commemorated by a postage stamp and a highway bears his name