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FRIDAYMARCH 7
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Cougars have not been sold: Brodsky The Prince George Cougars have not been sold, according to team vice-president Brandi Brodsky. Speculation has been rampant around Prince George, and the hockey world, about a possible sale since the Prince George Citizen ran an article on Monday saying it had been sold to a local investment group that included NHLers Dan Hamhuis and Eric Brewer. The Citizen information came from what it calls a “reliable source.” Brodsky said the story is simply not true. “I’m not responding to rumours or doing interviews based on rumours,” she said in an e-mail to the Prince George Free Press. “The team has not been sold.”
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Teresa MALLAM/Free Press “Princess” Katie Hogan, left, “Evil Queen” Elise Ryan and “Princess” Julya Osiowy pose Wednesday in the hallway at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church during lunch break. The three were set to perform their respective songs: Shy, Sensitivity and Ten Minutes Ago in the vocal discipline during the Prince George and District Music Festival.
Eyes on Ukraine Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com Like many people living in Prince George with links to Ukraine, Liz Folwark and her family have eyes glued to the news channels following the latest developments in that country. Folwark, whose father immigrated from Ukraine as a teenager, is one of about 35 to 40 members of the local Yalenka Ukrainian Cultural Society founded over three decades ago and she’s a key contact for Yalenka Ukrainian Dancers. She did not want to comment specifically on the serious situation brewing
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in Ukraine, however Folwark said the people in the midst of the frightening events unfolding there weigh heavily on her mind and her family’s. “What can we say? This is very difficult to talk about,” she told the Free Press on Monday. “We have relatives, cousins on my husband’s side of the family who are still living in the middle of Ukraine – I don’t want to say where – who we are concerned about. It took so long to gain independence, and now this. We are so torn by all that has happened over there [Russian military intervention] and it is a very hard time for us.” For the past 15 years, the Yalenka Dance Group, which puts on performances of traditional dance every year, has
also been raising money to help people in Ukraine. “Just before Christmas we shipped 60 boxes of supplies – medical supplies, school supplies and clothing – for orphanages, seniors homes and schools in Ukraine and we’re also looking after a fellow in a wheelchair there, so we’re still collecting and hope to be able to continue with a shipment of supplies in the fall ... if things don’t get worse over there,” said Folwark. Their humanitarian efforts could be hampered for as long as the tense situation exists between Russia and Ukraine, however Folwark remains optimistic that the group will meet their next expected shipment date without any problems.
with your clocks As we get ready to move our clocks forward an hour this Saturday night for the start of Daylight Savings Time, ICBC is asking drivers to make an effort to adapt to the time change to help reduce the impact it could have on their driving skills. According to an ICBC survey, 34 per cent of B.C. drivers admit that the time shift does affect them and makes them feel less alert.
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