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An early spring means the City of Prince George’s sports fields will be opening early. Typically, city fields will open to the public around May 1, but this year the city will open them for public use on Monday, April 20, 2015. There are nearly 100 sport fields and diamonds located around the community for residents and visitors to use. Members of the public are asked to be aware that aggressive play can damage turf in wet conditions. For further information about the city’s sports fields,...

  A proposal to turn the parking lot behind the Wood Innovation and Design Centre isn’t sitting too well with at least one downtown businessman. “Is this what we want to spend our money on?” said Barry Libby, owner of Final Chapter Books. “Shouldn’t the public have some say?” The $750,000 proposal, designed by van der Zalm and Associates Inc. from Langley, would see the area mid-block between Fourth and Fifth Avenue, and between George and Dominion Street become a park and transit...

It seems spring has come a little earlier to our region this year and the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George has some good news for those that may want to start getting the garden ready. Residents are invited to the Foothills Landfill this Friday (April 17) from 1-5 p.m. with a donation of non-perishable food items to be donated to St. Vincent de Paul’s Society. In return the regional district will give you a free truckload of NorGrow Compost. NorGrow is the bulk compost available at...

The city has been busy filling more potholes that usual this year, and spending more money to do so. In 2012 the city spent $107,257 on cold-patching potholes, in 2013 it spend $165,600, and in 2014 $294,337. “The cost of having spent $142,820 in just the first two months of 2015 raises concern that pothole repairs are on track to surpassing the cost of repairs in 2014, which was the highest in the last six years,” according to report submitted to council Monday. In addition, as more spent...

Kevin Parnell Kelowna Capital News Employees at a Kelowna-based air cargo business are in mourning after search and rescue crews located the bodies of two pilots operating a Carson Air cargo flight that crashed in the North Shore mountains shortly after taking off from Vancouver on Monday morning. Search and rescue crews located the bodies of the two pilots on Tuesday after an extensive search in an area known as Crown Mountain. The twin prop aircraft operated by Carson Air took off from...

Funding woes at UNBC have forced its Community Care Centre to stop taking on new clients. The following was posted on its Facebook page yesterday: To all community partners and referring agencies: Due to funding constraints of the University, the UNBC Community Care Centre will need to stop providing intakes at this time. Our counselling of current clients will continue until June 30th. We are saddened and discouraged by this information, but we are working hard to find funding...

For decades of her life, Norma Allison, now 80 years old, has volunteered in many different capacities for the local SPCA. “Now that I’m older I just play a small part,” she said. “I look after donation cans for the SPCA but since I started volunteering with them in 1973, I’ve done just about everything a volunteer can do from raising funds, to co-ordinating volunteers and organizing third party fundraiser events (such as Top Dog Agility.)” Allison has...

Quesnel rancher Paul Nichols kicked off a cross-Canada horseback ride Monday to introduce a new generation of veterans to the public and seek their support. Nichols, who served with Canadian troops during ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, struggled to control his emotions at a ceremony at the B.C. legislature. “Our Canadian troops do a hard job for us, and when they choose to transition back into civilian life, some of them struggle and lose their way,”...