Opinion

This is a year of celebration for Prince George. We are hosting the Canada Winter Games and welcoming the country, and we are also celebrating 100 years as a city.

Della (Brownscombe) Walker was born in Wells, BC in the year of 1937. Her father worked in the gold mines and in 1942 the family moved to the Hixon area where Della attended school at the Canyon Creek and Woodpecker elementary schools.

In his recent opinion piece, Citizen reporter Jason Peters was bellyaching about the apparent high price of tickets to the CWG Opening Ceremonies. I strongly disagree with him. This ceremony was televised live, nationally on TSN2.

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.

On Oct 21/13, the Citizen published an article about measles which said "A new analysis of the 2011 outbreak, which involved a surprising number of children who should have been protected against the virus...

When I originally set out to write this column, it was just after the city was blanketed in an obscene amount of snow over two days.

Greetings! Welcome to Prince George! It is the greatest city that no one has ever heard of! Well, that is not exactly true. Prince George is famous for many things, not the least of which is hosting the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

Athletes from across Canada have come to Prince George to compete in the Canada Winter Games. To compete and win, they will have to push themselves to the limits of safety and their ability.

VICTORIA -- The John Horgan-led B.C. New Democrats came out with their first major policy pronouncement Thursday, promising if they form the next government to campaign for a switch to proportional representation.

While the cherry trees were blooming in the provincial capital this week, Premier Christy Clark reminded the crowd at a party fundraiser how she's had to endure some cold weather visiting other parts of the province.