Trick or treat watch 2024, letters on urban vs rural, firetruck goodbyes
Trick or treat watch 2024, letters on urban vs rural, firetruck goodbyes
And one of the OGs of northern brewing is up for sale. Read to the end for a skeleton Mr. PG
Happy Halloween! I’ll be tallying the trick or treaters in my neighbourhood, tell me how many you get, too. Comments section is open for it, we’ll check in tomorrow.
Three Ranges Brewing for sale
As reported by the Rocky Mountain Goat, Valemount’s Three Ranges Brewing is for sale. The beer of the Prince George Legion, this is one of the original northern B.C. craft breweries, alongside Barkerville in Quesnel and Wheelhouse in Prince Rupert, paving the way for the northern B.C. brew scene. Overall, the craft brewing scene seems to be struggling and the hit of the Jasper wildfires didn’t help, they say. Story here.
Fire truck goodbyes
Prince George: Rural or urban?
Your thoughts on where the city fits.
Charles Menzies:
Maybe the real question relates to a question of racialization and the role of anti-First Nations politics/sentiments in the so-called 'rural' space of BC. As you note those who vote to the right don't form 100% of Prince George or elsewhere along the highway 16 corridor.
One major divide is that the more urban areas of BC have larger Asian populations and the racialized divided goes white/asian. In the so-called rural areas the racialized divide is First Nations/white. The areas out side of the lowermainland are also different in age profiles, tending to skew older and whiter than in the 'urban south.'
Also the decline of employment in industrial (and unionized) workplaces along the highway 16 corridor has resulted in a transition of the labour force toward smaller sub-contracting styles of small to medium scale businesses in the extractive sectors. These industries are also where 'concerns' over First Nations right and title playout in conservative ways. Hence Rustad's focus on 'problems' with UNDRIP and FN land rights (its also notable Rustad's own and family background in forestry).
I suspect that these factors tend to lend themselves to a politics focuses that leans conservative (be that calledliberal, socred, of actually conservative).
Paul S:
I think that the post-60s boom phase of PG became a different category. There's probably a better term, but for now I'll call it "remote suburban". It functioned as BC's miniature internal version of what Alberta has been for Canada as a whole: a place to go for work when a suitable job isn't available in the place(s) where you actually wanted to live. But once you've been here for a few years, and as long as real estate remained really cheap compared to the rest of BC, you became accustomed to having the compensation of being able to spend a greater proportion of disposable income on lots of toys, winter tropical holidays, and other private amenities.
As I approached retirement recently, I lost track of how many times co-workers asked me if I was moving away. There was almost the expectation that this was just the normal thing to do, as if PG was some kind of remote work-camp where you served your time, scored some bucks, and then resumed real life somewhere else with a milder climate and more amenities.
To circle back to the original question of whether PG is rural or not, the career trajectories and life histories of many of us tend to reinforce a very contingent, shallow attachment to this place which sits in a kind of twilight zone between urban and rural. It's home for as long as the gravy train lasts, so that makes many of us very grabby and protective of whatever private pile of material comforts we've managed to accumulate. So it's totally unsurprising to me that Rustad's crew managed a clean sweep of this area.
After all this, I do need to say that I'm quite content to stay here in retirement. My favourite amusements are mostly outdoors, local, and cheap, and after ~ 30 years, I've got all of the social circle that I want, so what's not to like?
Jodi:
As someone who grew up in and spent the majority my life in the lower mainland but did bounce around to a few other places in Manitoba in my 20s some that were definitely rural I dont consider PG to be rural. Its certainly not a metropolis. We are surrounded by rural area but does that make us rural? I suppose to some but I don't think of a city this size as a rural community
News roundup:
Seasonal temperatures in store for Halloween in Prince George.
PG Tickled Pig Rescue's annual pumpkin collection goes Friday.
Bear Awareness Committee calls for new bear-resistant bin pilot project.
Councillor Sampson calls for Annual Citizen Recognition Program.
Stage is set for Prince George Miracle Theatre’s next community fundraiser.
Spruce Kings and UNBC basketball to support each other this weekend.
Houston RCMP continue search for hiker after going missing five years ago.
Here's the skeleton Mr. PG. Thanks to reader Elizabeth for the photo, captioned “winners of Halloween “
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Bummer about Three Ranges.
I suspect Peak Craft Beer was reached several years ago and we will likely continue to see more breweries struggle in the future. It's really a volume game...you need to move a lot of product and there is SO much choice now...almost too much. Overall beer sales are in decline nationally, people are drinking less...especially Gen Z. All it takes is one bad season.