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From the moment she first stepped onto the historical homestead of Ada Annie Jordan – later known as Cougar Annie – Katrina Kadoski felt inspired to write about her life. Moving to the west coast of Vancouver Island, 33 miles north of Tofino, in 2007, Kadoski spent almost three years walking in the same places as her heroine did a century ago. She began writing songs and collecting information, locating photos, news clippings and letters. The result of five years of research (she...

Gabrielle Jacob of Prince George has been accepted into the 2015 National Youth Orchestra Canada. The announcement was made in an NYO media release. A highly competitive audition process is used to make the selection from among the nearly 500 applicants. Those chosen become part of the 100-strong professional training orchestra for emerging artists. Founded in 1960, the Orchestra was the creation of Maestro Walter Susskind and, according to the release, has since evolved into Canada’s...

Two new grants have provided a solid financial start to the 2015 Hudson’s Bay Wetland campaign. B.C. Nature, parent association of the Prince George Naturalists Club, and the B.C. Naturalists Foundation have repeated their 2013 grant of $2,000, providing a further $2,000 towards informational signage and community liaison. An unexpected grant of $2,500 was received via the Calgary Foundation. The anonymous source of the funding stated that it was “to help inspire the appreciation and...

I listen to the radio a lot, especially early in the morning when I’m the only one in the office. I switch between a few different stations, depending on my mood, but one thing I always like is the occasional unintentional linking of songs in a set. I say “unintentional”, because at almost all commercial stations these days, the play lists are set by a computer, and the host has very little to do with what songs are being played on their show. I sometimes amuse myself (which isn’t hard to...

Editor: I am a person living with a disability. For more than three years I have found worthwhile employment at a local non-profit that served as a social enterprise and employed people with various disabilities. Unfortunately, last week I, and the rest of the staff, received our lay-off notices. Sadly our contract was not renewed, which means the end of a great company that has been a part of the community for many years. I am obviously going through a very stressful time right now. My...

When the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake exploded and burned in January of 2012, no one seemed to know how much of an explosive hazard the fine dust from beetle-killed timber posed. When the Lakeland Mills sawmill in Prince George exploded and burned three months later, we were becoming aware that it was a hazard but nothing really had changed. During the inquest into the deaths of Glenn Roche and Alan Little, it has been referred to as an “emerging hazard.” It is clear no one,...

Hopefully by the time you are reading this, the strike at UNBC will be over. The faculty association at the university will have reached a deal and students and their professors will be rushing about to complete their year. While there is the occasional remark about where pay rates are, those remarks are more occasioned by lack of knowledge and comparing apples to oranges. There are hundreds of reasons why individuals choose to follow the academic life. Large motivators are a passion and a...

Could Stewart Phillip be a terrorist? The grand chief of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs feels that Bill C-51, the Conservative government’s anti-terrorism bill, could sweep him up in its wide net. “As an act of civil disobedience, I was arrested at Burnaby Mountain because I believe mega-projects, like Kinder Morgan and Enbridge pipelines, do not respect the indigenous laws and inherent authority of indigenous peoples to protect their territories, land and waters from the very...