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Reconciliation can take form in so many simple gestures, like so many grains of sand trickling through an hourglass. "Like the sands of time," said visiting Chief Robert Joseph at the official renaming of Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park.

B.C. is committing $300,000 towards a two-year project that will encourage education, awareness and dialogue around the legacy of federal Indian Residential School.

When Wendell Unger made a $5 pledge to support the idea of higher education in the north, post-secondary for his children, then babies, was a far-off dream.

At Saturday's 25th anniversary celebrations, the University of Northern B.C. welcomed Ryan Matheson as the Board of Governor's new chair. Matheson is a UNBC graduate and will become the first alumni to take on the leadership role.

Sunday's Show and Shine was like most days Norm Ferris brings out his white and blue beauty of a 1956 Mercury. "You don't want to be in a hurry," Ferris said.

Sealcoating on Highway 97, north of Prince George, is set to begin in mid-June, thanks to a $1.64-million contract from the B.C. government.

Those who put their names to the campaign to establish a university in Prince George back in 1988 might want to take a quick trip east along Highway 16 following the 25th anniversary celebrations for the University of Northern British Columbia today.

Cruisin' Classics Father's Day Show and Shine will be held at Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park (formerly Fort George Park) Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Prince George Cruisin' Classics Club expects more than 350 vehicles to attend the annual event.

The culminating event for the RCMP Girls' Run for Fun will be held this Saturday when participants in the seven-week program hold a five-kilometre road race in and around Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park.

Site C construction could begin as early as July regardless of whether any of the lawsuits aimed at stopping the dam are concluded, the project's spokesperson told Dawson Creek City Council this week.