It's almost Christmas

Here's some pictures

With it being so dark and rainy I’ve been seeking out things to make me feel more seasonal. Fortunately, this weekend came through. I started off by following through on one of those Instagram ads to see what these Fever concerts are about which advertise classical music and concerts. In the end, that’s what it was — a string quartet from Vancouver playing a mix of classic and contemporary Christmas songs with a bunch of (not real, but realistic) candles lighting the Knox Performance space.

Next weekend another group (or maybe the same one?) will be doing Coldplay songs and there’s a bunch of others scheduled in January. Basically it’s similar programs around the world and they get different musicians to put them on. Anyways, it was good!

Then on Saturday I went to Cottonwood where, believe it or not, the fog lifted and I didn’t take many pics except this one of all the duck footprints.

And yesterday, miracle of mircales, the trackers were able to get Otway skiable and I spent a good part of my day out there.

So overall, success!

This will be the last week for the newsletter until the new year, but I’ll probably finish out the week.

Here’s today’s

News roundup

• The last council meeting tonight. The big discussion is the subject of last Friday’s newsletter: the downtown civic core plan. It was posted to Reddit and there’s some big discussion here.Here’s the Citizen write-up and you can read the comments there, too.

• City Council to consider Security Camera pilot program.

• Almost $14M in building permits issued in November.

• Tourism Prince George set to open permanent shop at Canada Games Plaza.

• Barkerville looks to the future after a summer of wildfires.

• UNBC hosting tentree co-founder at Faculty of Business and Economics Dinner.

• PG Cougars captain left off Canada’s World Junior team; McBride’s Molendyk makes the cut

• .Mackenzie snowboard cross racer Evan Bichon qualifies for World Cup race in Cervinia, Italy.

• Snow, cold forecast to continue for Prince George area.

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