By the time you read this, we'll have said our goodbyes to our longtime home.
After nearly 54 years, The Citizen has moved from its 150 Brunswick St. location along First Avenue.
To make the move happen, we had to close our office on Friday at noon. Unfortunately, that meant having to put Saturday's print edition to bed at the same time.
As a result, we were unable to get coverage of important hockey games in today's newspaper.
To find out how the Cariboo Cougars made out against the Greater Vancouver Canadians in the first game of their B.C. Hockey Major Midget League playoff game, as well as how the Prince George Cougars did against the Portland Winterhawks in the first game of their playoff series, please visit our website at
www.pgcitizen.ca.
On Monday morning at 9 a.m., we'll open our doors for the first time at our new office at 1777 Third Avenue, in the I.W.A. building at the corner of Third and Winnipeg. We're located on the second floor, a short hike up two flights of stairs.
There is an elevator, accessible either down a few stairs in the front lobby or from a wheelchair entrance at the corner of the building.
Visitors to our new office will still be able to book classified ads, pay bills, subscribe to the print and digital editions of the newspaper and drop off letters to the editor or news tips.
Everything else stays the same - our phone numbers, our email addresses, our website, 7 a.m. home delivery Tuesday through Saturday of The Citizen for subscribers and free home delivery of The Citizen Extra every Thursday.
For those who prefer to stop by to pick up their Extra, they will be available in newspaper bins directly across the street from our old location, at 145 Brunswick St.
Our printing press remains in that building, where it will continue to print The Citizen, along with our sister papers, The Alaska Highway News and The Dawson Creek Mirror.
It was certainly time for us to move.
While packing up, we found a few lost treasures and a lot of stuff we just don't need anymore, like copies of financial statements from 1958, with columns carefully formed on a typewriter and handwritten general ledger pages attached.
When your building has enough space to store 60-year-old documents and you're not the museum or the library, a move is the right thing to do.
During the past three weeks, my team at The Citizen has done an amazing job of packing for the move while working through the start of the renovation of the 150 Brunswick St. building.
Crammed together into the middle of the building, they listened to power tools, air compressors, walls being knocked down and floors being lifted up, all while continuing to do their jobs.
I'm so fortunate to have such dedicated and patient employees.
All my thanks go to them.
I'd also like to thank Tom and Nada Newell of Kopar Administration and their team for working with us through this transition, allowing us to stay in the building while we readied the new office for our move.
The Newells have very graciously named one of the rooms in their new location after The Citizen and their computer lab will be named after Trelle Morrow, the building's architect. We know they will love their new home as much as we did for all of these years.
Lastly, I would like to thank you, our readers and our advertisers, for your continuing support of our business, providing quality journalism to the community and connecting local businesses with customers.
We do it for you and we couldn't do it without you.
We look forward to serving you at our new office.
-- Colleen Sparrow, Publisher
