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Lesson learned. Read your own newspaper online before you leave the office. I could have been saved myself a lot of confusion, anxiety, angst and profuse sweating had I done that. First, just the facts. I was driving down 15th Avenue Wednesday morning, as usual driving carefully and minding my own business – this is my story so I can tell it the way I want to – on my way to a photo assignment at the PG Railway and Forestry Museum. As an astute reporter, I began to feel very uneasy. I...

Yes, it’s spring in Prince George, despite the little bit of snow we got on Saturday. One easy way to tell the seasons have changed is to see the number of drivers being forced to do the pothole two-step on local streets. Just driving in a fairly limited area on the weekend, especially Sunday, I found a few spots that had nasty-looking holes. There were a couple in the eastbound lane of 18th Avenue, just past Ospika, as well as a couple on the entrance to the Exhibition Grounds off 18th...

Avalanche Canada is issuing a special public avalanche warning for the North Columbia, Cariboos and North Rockies regions. This warning applies to recreational backcountry users and is in effect from March 24 to March 29. A winter of unusual weather has created a complex and unpredictable snowpack, explains Avalanche Canada Public Avalanche Warning Service Manager Karl Klassen. “Avalanches are being triggered both in the newer, surface snow and in deeper layers that formed earlier in the...

Kelsey Roberts kept turning around Sunday afternoon to look at the game clock in Kin 2. “I was hoping the time would go quicker,” said the goalie for the Northern Cougars, as they faced the Fraser Valley Phantoms in the deciding game in the Female Midget AAA provincial championship series.. The last time she turned around, there were 3.6 seconds showing, and she had just come back to the net from a timeout. The other numbers on the scoreboard were just as important: Home 1 Visitor 0. “We...

The day after the Northern Exposure tournament ended, Pandamonia is still feeling the effects. “I’m tired and sore,” says Pandamonia (also known as Amanda Vliegenthart), a member of the Rated PG Northstars. “It was a very emotional weekend.” The Northstars hosted the seven-team tournament at the Roll-a-Dome and came in third, losing the A final to Kamloops and then being eliminated by Saskatoon. “It was good to get through to the A final,” Pandamonia says, “because it gave us that one game...

Should the idea of Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond be followed, in future years we could be celebrating Holi (Festival of Colours) in a much bigger way, by singing and dancing in the streets of downtown. Bond was a guest at the Happy Holi celebrations hosted by the Prince George Hindu Society Saturday at the Day’s Inn. She told guests that in her research of the festival, she found out that Holi is about putting negative things behind you, forgiving others and moving...

There are many stories that come to the Free Press which show triumph over adversity, and, as reporters, we never fail to be inspired by them and we hope readers will be as well. Gladys McKay has lived in Prince George since 1952 when sidewalks downtown were still made of wooden planks, and when the hospital was located in the old army barracks. She remembers harsh winters back then with temperatures that dipped to 45 degrees below and with “snow so high that you couldn’t see out our...

WorkSafeBC says it wants more information regarding the suggestion Wednesday that it refused investigative materials prepared by CASE Forensics regarding the April 23, 2012 explosion and fire at Lakeland Mills’ sawmill in Prince George. The inquest into the deaths of Glenn Roche and Alan Little was adjourned following the revelation. “As you may be aware, the coroner has adjourned the inquest into the deaths of Alan Little and Glenn Roche in the April 23, 2012 fire and explosion...

Editor: I suggest (Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart) Phillip ask himself that question (Is this man a terrorist, Free Press, March 13), without the bias of being First Nations. You are correct sir, you are not a terrorist because of your beliefs. Chaining yourself to a tree or putting up a blockades also are not acts of terrorism, so why must you believe what this bill “really” is? If you care and respect this land then don’t make everything about your people....