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The first public exhibit of the year by CNC's Fine Arts students is now on display in the Prince George campus library.

Prince George Citizen reporter Gord Hoekstra has won the Jack Webster Award for excellence business, industry and economics reporting.

Lorraine Grant of Prince George has been elected vice-chair of the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia's board of directors. Grant, who began a two-year term on the CRNBC on Sept. 1 was elected to the board on Oct. 1.

A late-August drug bust has yielded a second jail term.

Two of Prince George's youngest published authors had their first book signing at Books and Co. on October 30. Erika McDonnell, 14, was signing her first published book entitled Beneath the Cobblestones, a murder mystery set in Paris, France.

November 1 to 7 is BC's fourth annual Seniors' Falls Prevention Awareness Week.

SEE RELATED STORY: SHANGHAI WOOD One construction company in China has made a business gesture to British Columbia that could change the face of our entire wood industry.

A close friend of mine recently made a comment to me about a mutual close friend that I haven't been able to shake for weeks. We were talking about the two most recent women to have gone missing in Prince George - Cynthia Maas and Natasha Montgomery.

Sue Hylland said the Prince George bid was seen as the one to beat in the 2015 Canada Winter Games competition, and Kamloops and Kelowna could not overcome in the end.