I can't keep up with the nightlife in this city

More mysteries for you to solve. And for the first time ever, the city is not working with the SPCA

Craft fair season is here. It seems… early? Like, Studio Fair is this weekend? I went to the DP Todd one and happily bought a piece from min_hee_likes whose work I have highlighted here before. This is mine now:

When I was doing my rounds looking for content for this newsletter, I saw a post about someone leaving their purse at Crush Nightclub. “Crush Nightclub?” I thought. “Surely this must be a post meant for Prince George, Washington” (it happens quite often that I find news/posts about that city. But no, it turns out this is indeed a — new? renamed? pop-up?— nightclub operating out of what was, I think, most recently Heartbreakers.

Is it the same owners? New ones? How long has this been going on? Idk, I am clearly not in the demographic that these nightclubs are meant for anymore but it looks like all the UNBC students have been having a good time there.

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More street mysteries

Last week I shared a post last week from the radio station the River about how we don’t have a 21st Ave.

Mike writes:

One that really bothers me is Spruce St.

It’s insane that it runs from 15th to Milburn, stops. Then appears again off Ferry.

The portion off Ferry just needs a new name.

Owen wonders:

Why do we have a Cameron Street Bridge, but no Cameron Street?

To all of this, Phil writes:

If one looks at the city map you wil find small bits of numbered avenues here and there throughout the city. Those who have been here long enough saw some of those avenues closed and buildings go up. As a kid I saw 393 Alward St built on what had been 4th Ave. Some 16 yrs later we moved and there was still a vacant lot on the even side where 4th Ave had been that eventually was built on. People from out of town would phone and ask how to find our house, they had driven up 3rd Ave as instructed but missed a turn and found themselves back downtown at 11th & Victoria as 3rd curved into Laurier which beame 11th Ave.

St Giles church was removed from where 5th Ave turned into Meville St and 5th curved and became 4th Ave going into the downtown. In the VLA we see the streets runing parallel to 20th Ave were all named rather than numbered.

In newer areas it became popular to use crescents off main streets to reduce traffic in residential areas

Also, I got a note from a reader who was passing the work being done in Canada Games Plaza and noticed doodles in the brick that’s been exposed. They are wondering what they are/how they got there and I definitely remember them being there but have no memory of whether they were something official or not, and if they were — why. Anyone have any idea?

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News roundup

• The SPCA has lost its contract with the city. It says it will keep operating here but doesn’t have a building as of Jan. 1, and while it had been planning to build a new one, that may no longer be feasible.

• All the Prince George nostalgia Facebook pages I’ve followed have been overrun by people upset the firet ruck in Lheidli T’enneh Park is going to be replaced with… a different fire truck.

• Canfor Pulp sees over $200 million operating loss in this year’s third quarter.

• Prince George Islamic Centre host open house.

• Primetime Wrestling fights hunger with food drive.

• Poppy Campaign officially underway.

• A win and a loss for the Cougars.

• Mindy Stroet departs Prince George Community Foundation for UNBC role.

• Photos: Check out the size of these mushrooms.

This has nothing to do with Prince George but look at this wild new gameshow in Japan where they create ridiculous ninja-warrior style skateboard courses:

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