Opinion

This week in local history, Feb. 26 to March 4: Feb. 26, 1919: The City of Prince George planned to call for tenders for firewood suppliers for wood to heat the city's public buildings - including city hall, the hospital, fire hall and schools.

Doris Aitken was born in Edmonton in 1925. She grew up there and later her family moved to Toronto. After high school, she worked at the blood bank and then the National Life Insurance Company.

Good grief, take me back to the Sixties! The design for the yet to be built Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park Pavilion is pathetic. How this roof design reflects the native culture of the people who first inhabited the area is beyond me.

1) Lower health care costs. 2) Lower policing costs. 3) Lower crime rates. 4) Safer streets. 5) Less senior citizen neglect. 6) Homelessness greatly reduced or even eliminated. 7) Less child poverty.

I would like to clarify some of the information presented in the article in The Citizen on Feb. 18. The CNC dental hygiene program was a very well respected, accredited program and its graduates were sought after by employers for over 25 years.

The MSP relief was short lived, we do not even have it yet and the Liberal BS department is already setting the ground works for a hike in ICBC rates. This rate increase when we see it will probably exceed the MSP savings on the working people.

I want to thank your site (and Todd Whitcombe) for covering the critical issue of climate engineering. I hope your organization will continue to investigate this most dire issue.

On Feb. 25, Neil Godbout wrote that under the current system, our city's mayor and council must sign off on all purchases over $1 million.

I have said this before and will likely say it again: budgets are wish lists. They are statements of intent and not to be considered as anything more than a promise. As we all know, promises are often broken and wishes don't often come true.

Last weekend my wife and I were privileged to spend some time out at Francois Lake. It is a massive lake, 110 kilometres in length, near the communities of Fraser Lake and Burns Lake. My wife had some connections out there.