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The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George) has embarked on a program to develop a shared mission, vision, core values and goals that will provide overall strategic direction for the school district over the next five years. Members of the community are invited to participate in the research component of this project. “Community engagement is important, as it will allow us to gain valuable insight into the current state of our school district and its future...

Last week we were critical of Cariboo-Prince George Conservative candidate Todd Doherty for attending meetings that should be for elected officials only. And we stand by those comments. However, it shouldn’t have only been the Prince George Free Press that pointed the finger at Doherty and said “that is wrong.” Where are the New Democrats and the Liberals? Give Doherty and the Conservatives credit for understanding that they need to have a candidate in place long before the writ is dropped...

The newest coach of the Prince George Spruce Kings was ready to get to work Friday morning. “We’ve got a great group of returning players,” Chad van Diemen told a media conference at the Prince George Coliseum on Friday, “and we’ve got the Prospects Camp starting today to look at filling out the roster.” General manager Mike Hawes said van Diemen, who spent the last six years as the associate head coach and assistant general manager of the Powell River...

Everything he’d worked for had led up to that one moment. When Cole Abou-Tibbett, 17, won gold in his junior male second degree black belt under 62 kilogram division at the Taekwon-Do Nationals in Regina last November, he knew it had all been worth it. “I’m not sure some people understand when I tell them what that is but that [win] meant I was the number one fighter in my weight class in Canada. “So I definitely had a feeling that all the training I’d done to this point had been like a...

The Prince George Community Foundation has announced the recipients of its fall 2014-2015 adjudicated grants. The recipients were recognized at a Grant Award Reception on April 7. “We are pleased to announce that through the generosity of our donors, our endowment funds are now in excess of $9.5 million and more than one million dollars has been distributed since our inception in 1995,” said executive director Brenda Langlois. “This is a significant milestone in the short history of the...

With spring cleaning on the way, health professionals are once again being asked to donate their gently used uniforms, which will then be sold, with proceeds funding CNC’s Making a Difference Bursary. Since 2011, sales from the scrub drive have funded bursaries of $250 each, which are given out annually to five CNC health sciences students in financial need. The scrub drive is organized by CNC nursing instructor Nancy Esopenko. “Over the last few years, the scrub sale has helped make...

Kalina Cook may only be 12, but already she has a decade of dance behind her. The Excalibur Theatre Arts studio dancer displayed her talent in a several disciplines last weekend at the 39th annual Prince George Dance Festival. Her favourite number was performed to Nikki Flores’ Pretty Tragedy. “The song has many layers of emotion so it was a good number for me to be able to express myself,” she said of her lyrical solo dance. The beautiful music and choreography also included jumps where...

You know you’ve lived too long when you see culottes come back into fashion. Culottes, also called Palazzo pants, or their shorter version, Gaucho pants, are once again all the rage with women, forcing me to relive – in my mind, not my wardrobe – my fun and fashion-fearless 70s. From modified Mods to Granny-style to Bohemian look, the boomers had it all covered, or not, depending on the neckline. As of this year, I’ve already come through a resurgence of the mini-skirt, tent dress, hot...

Mayor Lyn Hall is right when he says that the city is in a precarious situation when it comes to the farmer’s market foofaraw. No one can fault city council for not wanting to play referee in a dispute that is deep-rooted (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) and has seen a lot of bad blood between the two groups. It’s not the city’s job to iron out the mess. That would hold true if the city wasn’t forcing the issue between the two groups. Council, following up on a myPG ‘visioning’ session, has...

With both Victoria and Ottawa pondering the value of the B.C. Treaty Commission process and last year’s Tsilqot’in Supreme Court decision, one thing is certain, the issue of land claims won’t go away. In addition, dealing with First Nations in an open, up-front way will get results. That was the message given by a couple of First Nations leaders at the Council of Forest Industries convention in Prince George on Wednesday. “The courts bring us victories,” said Dallas Smith, President and...