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Rona, Capital Building Supplies in Prince George, has won a national outstanding retailer award for 2010. Rona captured the Outstanding Community Leader from among about 700 Rona stores across Canada.

The Goldpan City might want to change its nickname.

City facing gang crisis summit hears

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.

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