This was in Friday's Citizen but it's worth repeating:
Starting Monday and continuing through Saturday, Feb. 28, the Prince George Citizen will transform during the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
Normally, news and opinion dominates the front page and the first section, with sports and other news in the second section. That will be reversed during the two weeks of the Games.
Barring any major local, provincial, national or international news, coverage of the Games will dominate the front page and will take up the first five pages of the Citizen, with sports summaries and out-of-town sports coverage of the Canucks and other major sports filling out the rest of the front section.
The second section will contain local news and opinion, along with news and features from elsewhere in the province, the country and the world.
Check our index on the front page of each edition to find what you're looking for.
We're looking forward to sharing the great stories from these Games with you, while still providing the comprehensive package of news and features you've come to expect to start each day.
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It was so great to see Jennifer Pighin as the centre of attention Friday morning when the 2015 Canada Winter Games medals were unveiled.
A teacher at PGSS, an elected councillor with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation, a gifted and inspired artist, a member of the Lheidli T'enneh Drum Group and a fearless social advocate, Pighin's medal design was perfect: a wolf print, to symbolize the power and strength of the hunter but also recognizing that wolves are social creatures that work in teams to succeed and thtrive. It also ties in perfectly with the Games theme of "leave your tracks," with so many competitors set to make their mark over the next two weeks in Prince George.
Pighin's work came out on top of a national callout to artists to submit a design for the medals.
Even better, Pighin's artistic flair is also being featured on the long-sleeved T-shirt, the scarf and the pin for Team B.C.
Pighin had been at the forefront of an effort to increase the amount of First Nations public art across Prince George in the last few years, with the pit house at UNBC and murals downtown.
She's one of this region's great ambassadors, so it's fitting that athletes across the country will be taking home not only memories of their success in Prince George but also a piece of artistic brilliance from one of our own.
