If I could, dear fellow readers, draw your attention to the sixth and seventh pages of the Oct. 16 edition of The Citizen. The editorial pages. The heart of the newspaper.
Let's work from left to right, as Nathan Giede would wish. The first is an almost Speaker For The Dead level obituary for Harold Mann, someone I knew nothing about at the beginning of Neil's piece, but want to know so much more about by the end.
Next is Giede's think piece on centralized power and the Old Testament - man, but I disagree with him, and yet never fail to read whatever he writes.
Twice.
Then two completely insane and beside the point letters. The letters section is almost awesome enough to justify a subscription on its own.
Next page, and Prince George farmer/logger/writer Andrew Adams' substantial essay attempting to explain his home state of Kansas to us northerners: again, a piece worthy of repeated readings.
Below that, newly installed Community Arts Council executive director Sean Farrell crams his article with too many things to do this weekend in the city, from a fiddler's jam to a faculty concert from the PG Conservatory of Music.
The opinion page finishes with some fitness guru telling me to not be so hard on myself. Done!
Seriously, fellow Prince Georgians: I have had the opportunity to travel all over Canada and the States for several years, and I love local and small newspapers. I read them whenever I can, from front page to back.
Few can match the quality of thought and writing our hometown paper routinely achieves. The Citizen is by any metric a terrific paper with great reporters. It is without a doubt worth your subscription.
John Moxin
Prince George
