Lifestyles

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...

Lorraine Grant was feeling frustrated last Thursday evening. “I was working at home,” she said Friday afternoon, “and it was tough to get through.” Then she got a phone call from someone at the Hospice House Society, and the frustration disappeared. Grant was told she was the winner of the Society’s latest 50/50 draw,worth $76, 360. “I bough the ticket quite a while ago, on a phone-in order,” she said after picking up her cheque at the Hospice House...

Prince George artisan and animal lover Trisha Gustafson would like to win a photo contest. All she needs is a little help from her Prince George friends. The photo is of her favourite four-legged friends – some of the 40 or so little goats she raises on her hobby farm on Chilako River Road. “The photo was sent into a weekly online photo contest and it won – I don’t know who sent it in but then it was entered into one segment of the semi-finals and won that too,” said...

If you’re wondering what it means to be a Wheelin’ Warrior, mark Jan. 14 on your calendar. The Wheelin’ Warriors of the North is a Prince George-based team which takes part in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, a bicycle ride and fundraiser for the BC Cancer Foundation. This will be the third year for the Wheelin’ Warriors, and team captain Karin Piche says they already have 37 people signed up. The Warriors do the Classic ride, which is a two-day ride from Vancouver to Seattle, covering more than...

It may not have been a record-setting weekend for Operation Red Nose in Prince George, but it wasn’t far off. On Friday and Saturday, another 274 rides were provided, making it the third-highest third weekend in the 17 years of operation in the city. On Friday, there were 22 teams on the road providing 11 rides, and covering just over 3,000 km. The record for the day was set in 2012 with 124 rides. Saturday was, as usual, busier, with 163 rides for 23 teams, and close to 4,000 km....

It was a record-breaking weekend for Operation Red Nose in Prince George. The program, which gets drivers and their vehicles home safely over the holiday season, had a total of 243 rides on Friday and Saturday. That tops the previous best of 222 rides on the second weekend of the service, a record set in 2012. Each night also saw a record set. The 95 rides on Friday beat the previous high of 85 in 2012. On Saturday, the 148 rides topped the 137 total from 2012. The total could have been...

Ron Brent Elementary principal Carmen Eberle had a message for the students having breakfast in the school’s meal room Monday morning. “This is starting in January for all the classes in the school,” she told the class of Grade 1 students. “We’re offering a free breakfast every morning from 8:15 to 8:30. If you’re late getting to school, you can come by the office and get a slip, and you can still get breakfast.” Then she talked about some of the other people in the room. “I started talking...