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Mark your calendar for an evening sure to be anything but a "drag." The Prince George Pride Society is hosting a fundraiser May 1 for the upcoming Pride celebrations in July. A portion of proceeds will also be donated to the PG Hospice Society.

REAPS Compost Demonstration Garden at 1950 Gorse St. will host several workshops to help residents get started on their lawns and gardens on Saturday. Green lawns 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Natural Gardening methods 11 a.m.

A paperwork hiccup has delayed the reunion of a Prince George man with his family. Mamadou Tounkara had hoped to see his wife and three children this Friday in the culimination of a more than decade-long struggle to bring them to Canada.

Pizza 73 launches a fundraising event called Slices for Smiles from April 26 to May 2. During the fundraising period customers can purchase a walk-in 12-inch pepperoni pizza for $7.

A Prince George drug enforcer will serve up to nearly eight years in jail for his role in kidnapping, confining and torturing a man who owed money to a local cocaine dealer and then putting him through another round of abuse for his "own pleasure and

A total of 51 wildfires have broken out so far this month in the region covered by the Prince George Fire Centre, all of them human caused.

The Prince George Citizen would like to welcome Sarah Makowsky to our staff as a summer intern. Sarah is from Prince George and is in her third year of studies in the Bachelor of Journalism program at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

Organized labour plans to put more heat on Prince George's provincial Liberals. The Prince George and District Labour Council is organizing an anti-HST rally in front of the office of Prince George North and Minister of Forests Pat Bell.

The Island Mountain Arts Society that presents the Artswells Festival has received $5,000 in government funding said Dick Harris, Conservative Member of Parliament for Cariboo-Prince George and BC/Yukon Caucus Chair.

A commercial laptop that had been stolen from a Terasen Gas vehicle April 12 was recovered damaged on April 15 near Ron Brent elementary school.