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The UNBC Timberwolves women’s basketball team kept it tight for a while both nights against the Grant MacEwan Griffins on the weekend, but came up short in both games in Edmonton. “It was all right for us,” coach Sergey Shchepotkin said of the games. “Grant MacEwan is playing crazy good basketball right now. “We still need more experience and some luck to compete with teams like that.” It also didn’t help that Sarah Robin missed the two games on the weekend, but is expected back for games...

For artist and teacher Jennifer Annais Pighin, her designs chosen for the 2015 Canada Winter Games are as much about showing respect for those who came before her as they are an expression of her artistic talent. Pighin created three designs used for Team B.C. scarves and shirts as well as commemorative pins that will be widely seen around Prince George in February when it proudly hosts the Games for the first time. Importantly for her, says Pighin, Lheidli T’enneh is First Nation host for...

I did some thinking about my sporting past on Saturday. OK, maybe not my sporting past, but my past in relation to sports. I was at the final couple of games of the Trojan Wars boys basketball tournament at D.P. Todd, and while I spent most of my time following the games, I also spent some time following an area I was more familiar with: the scorers’ table. When I was at Prince George Secondary School, I started doing a lot of scorekeeping for basketball tournaments at the school. And when...

As life changes, so does Gerry Dee’s comedy routine. “When I started doing stand-up,” Dee says over the phone from Ontario, “teaching took front and centre. Now, there’s a lot about parenting.” Dee will be at Vanier Hall on Jan. 30, bringing his act to Prince George for the first time. “It’s always fun going to a place for the first time,” says Dee, whose CBC show, Mr. D, starts its fourth season on Jan. 20. “This show might be more of an introduction to Gerry Dee, whereas if I’m playing a...

Paul Strickland Special to the Free Press Political correctness created the cultural atmosphere that allowed jihadist fascist murderers to organize to kill 10 staff members, including four political cartoonists, and two police officers at the offices of the Parisian satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo; a police officer outside; and four shoppers at a kosher grocery store. The attacks had an impact on people of all faith traditions, as well as atheists among the journalists. One of the police...

According to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Goat. Trisha Gustafson and her husband, Brad, will have no trouble celebrating. The couple raises Chilako Nubian goats on their 160 acre “hobby farm” in the Mud River area – and there’s always plenty of live action going on. “Right now we have 22 Nubians on our farm. They’re like the ‘Jersey’ of the goat world and we just love their antics,” said Gustafson, who often photographs them. “They’re really fun to be around because...

For close to two years, endoscopes at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. were not being cleaned according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. As a result, Northern Health is now in the process of notifying the approximately 10,000 people who had a procedure using an endoscope. “First and foremost, I would like to apologize for any undue stress that this information might cause our patients,” said Dr. Ronald Chapman, Northern Health’s vice president of medicine. Chapman, along with...

After being open for just over a year in Prince George, Target is closing. Target announced yesterday that it is closing all of its stores in Canada. It has obtained an initial order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The order authorizes Target Canada to begin a court-supervised wind-down of its Canadian businesses. It also provides for a broad stay of proceedings against Target Canada and authorizes...