Quesnel

Immediately following my CC experience, I played senior hockey out in British Columbia.

And as a member of the Quesnel Kangaroos of the Caribou Hockey League, we were Western Canadian champions.

And it was a great and a new thrill for me because it was the first time ever that I participated in a national championship.

Our kangaroo team, senior hockey club, defeated from kind of west toward Manitoba.

Take care of those you love.

perfect answer george i'm going to ask you a few quick what i call quick change questions short answers unless one of these these questions brings back a story but the best player you ever played with

oh boy um i've played with a lot of them i'm going to say wayne holmes wayne holmes Wayne and I were teammates in Quesnel, British Columbia and in Colorado.

Wayne is a Fort Francis kid and we played years of hockey.

Umimaq means muskox.

And another interesting thing about my, um, uh, educational career is that I was, uh, my last principalship for seven years, I was the principal of the high school that I graduated from in Quesnel.

Mm.

And that really was an amazing opportunity to close a circle because I, I grew up in Quesnel.

I was born and raised in Quesnel.

I came of age in Quesnel in the, the '60s and '70s.

Um, I, uh, reflect a lot on my, on my upbringing in Quesnel, uh, about the, uh, socialization process and how in the '60s and '70s boys were socialized, uh, to, to be one way and of course, um, girls another way.

And, and, and for those of us that didn't quite fit that mold, there was, uh, an incredible amount of dissonance and distress, um, trying to figure out ourselves and trying to figure out where we, we fit in.

So a lot of the people that live in, that work in the forest industry are in actually the electoral areas rather than the city itself.

So, um, I believe there's 90 people that are off right now from the, one of the pulp mills in Quesnel, and that is definitely affecting some of the, uh, grocery stores and all of this other stuff.

Now, um, some of the things that are in the background are things like retraining of forestry workers, uh, uh, through a federal government program, and I've been encouraging one, uh, mining outfit to look at that, and I'm hoping that we could actually get a new mine in my area.

But who knows?

And there could be an alternate route.

And that would then get people moving, and it's not that far away.

And I've also been working with this group, like, when they decided to cu- close that road, the Quesnel-Hixon Road, I said, "Look, we have a school bus now that has to come down Highway 97 and stop to turn left to get down Olson Road, and somebody eventually, on a 100-kilometer-an-hour section of road, is gonna run right into the back end of the bus." So the provincial government, thank goodness, is widening the road and putting in turning lanes going north and turning lane going south.

They also have committed to, um, fixing Olson Road.

We've read out stats a couple of times when I'd gotten them.

And then this last week, they finished up their season in Quesnel.

So their season is done.

Now,

It's more so to highlight that we've really been seeing that cloud cover in the morning hours and then breaks as we get in through the day.

This is taken by Kathy and Dragon Lake and this is in Quesnel.

So thank you so much for that gorgeous shot along the water.

all right here's the plan especially as we get in late this evening overnight tonight we are going to see a few clouds in the mix across metro vancouver and then we'll be back into some sunshine temperatures for tomorrow hoping to hit highs up to 18 degrees which takes us right around the average for this time of the year we have seen some instability most of the wet weather has been along the north and central coast it'll continue to fall heavy at times periods of rain and with this frontal system We're also seeing windy conditions if you're closer to the water with gusts of up to 40 kilometers per hour.

It's dry but cool overnight and for the early morning hours near Fort Nelson will dip down below the freezing mark.

Prince George, that chance of showers morning and early afternoon drying out.

Quesnel will see some breaks in there with highs closer to 15 degrees.

It's cooler for the early morning hours but will rebound through the afternoon.

Big buck, private land, shot, massive buck, over 200 inches, like 220, 230 inches.

I know that there's a couple of them out of Quesnel that get taken every year.

Like there's, there's this one guy, um, I want to say he's killed two or three bucks over 200.

He owns a ranch just out of Quesnel and the only guy hunting them and just, yeah, he just, he loves breeding bucks.

He feeds them basically in the, in the winter and all that.

So, I mean, it kind of comes with it.

You're going to have to bear with me.

Who am I? Well, currently, my day job, other than filling in here on occasion, is as the city manager in Quesnel.

And you might ask the question, why is the city manager of Quesnel talking to Prince George? Why is anyone from Quesnel? Really, the reason for all of this is to promote Quesnel.

So, the excuse and reasoning and rationale for doing this is, A, I love Prince George.

I live in Prince George.

I call it home.

But also, I do want to point Prince George people in the direction of Quesnel.

So...

Hmm.

And then actually on the Sunday, they're down in Quesnel.

Okay.

And then October the 16th, it's Prime Time goes Big Time, 'cause they're gonna be at CN Centre.

... to practice for the new, the next one.

No.

And I can't remember all the names, but, um, the, the, uh, headline match in Quesnel-

Mm-hmm