Opinion

On Feb. 19, the price of oil dropped $2 per barrel while here in our area gasoline prices jumped. This unexplained jump in prices has a crushing effect on people with fixed incomes as well as the cost of living for everyone else in our area.

While Art Betke (Letter on February 16: "Climate Change Still Open for Debate") may be able to marshall the work of a few contrarian scientists in his seemingly relentless campaign to downplay the human causes of climate change, the fact remains that

It's anti-bullying today and students and teachers at schools across the district are wearing pink today to stand up against bullies and bullying. I'm proudly wearing a pink tie today.

City council should be a little more up front with their explanation of the increases in garbage collection fees. The insert that arrived with the recent semi-annual invoice states that rates have increased by $2 per year for a medium container.

Last week in the college schedule it is called reading week. I was in college when the first semester break in February was instituted.

Currently, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in the US produces the Report on Carcinogens (RoC) every two years, and the year 2012 features the latest edition.

Book burnings are associated with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, as Hitler's propaganda infected the entire German population and any reading material not worthy of the Aryan vision was put to the torch.

Take a step back in time to 1924 when George Stauble lived and worked at sawmills here in the Prince George area. George made a trip back to his home country of Switzerland just after the war in 1949.

Seeds are amazing things. Each seed contains everything it needs to start a new plant. All it needs, is to be woken up, by providing moisture, heat, light, and air. Many plants are started by seed and these seeds are available now.

One night in the late fall of 2000, a call came in the Citizen newsroom from the Vancouver Sun. Their photo desk was wondering when the Citizen would be sending pictures from the oil spill on the Pine River near Chetwynd.