I’m going to start 2023 the same way I spent a lot of columns in 2022, talking about Blacktop Blockheads. To be honest, I’m not […]
Allan’s Amblings
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And so we come to the end of another year. I think back over 2022 and, surprisingly, there isn’t much that stands out for me. […]
On Saturday evening, at the 5:15 mark of the second period of the WHL game between the Kamloops Blazers and the Prince George Cougars, Ethan […]
I went walking at CN Centre a few times in the last week, and it seemed I noticed something different each time. On one occasion, […]
It’s December. I know it is because I checked three different calendars, and they all confirmed it is the last month of 2022. December, if […]
Many people today have mobile phones (a.k.a. cellphones), but from what I’ve seen recently, some people would be better off without the ‘mobile’ part. I’ve […]
We in Prince George frequently laugh at people in Vancouver early in winter, when they get a half-inch of snow and the whole city shuts […]
Call it a hunch, but I think winter is here. I think it’s that keen reporter instinct, honed by years of working at community newspapers, […]
My column this week has gone to the dogs. I mean, some people probably figure that happened years ago, but this week it’s literal. A […]
There are times where things work out in the end, no matter how they looked earlier. Friday night, I went to bed early, about 9:30 […]
Saturday morning, 7:30. I set out for a walk on a route I use a fair bit. West from my apartment building at Fifth and […]
I’m writing this Sunday afternoon, with a beautiful sunny day outside. I will say, however, it is nowhere near that sunny early in the mornings. […]
It’s months like this that make me happy I’m not a parent, especially of a student just entering Grade 1. Think about all the questions […]
Sometimes things might be legal, but they just don’t feel right. A case in point is the Bear Lake Community Commission. The commission is made […]
Well, we now know that in Prince George, we will have choices to make in the municipal elections on October 15. By the time the […]
How did it become September already? I’m sure it was May just a couple of weeks ago. Since it has cooled off some in Prince […]
A musical question for you: What do the song This Time, Jane Fonda, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, and a trucking magazine have in common? In one way […]
For the first time in three years, CFIS radio was back at the B.C. Northern Exhibition on the weekend, and things didn’t go totally smoothly. […]
It’s funny how sometimes you’re thinking about something for really no reason, and then something else pops into your head and you wonder if there’s […]
I did a fair bit of walking in the last week or so, and most of it was on the streets in my area or […]
I was enjoying a brunch recently when I saw a story on TV about smog covering a city in the U.S. So what, you might […]
Do you remember ‘Sohcahtoa’? How about ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge’? Or ‘Mom Visits Every Sunday, Just Stays Until Noon, Period’? These are all mnemonics […]
It was 53 years ago today that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon (assuming you’re reading this on Wednesday). That has very little to do […]
One of things people say about the weather in Prince George (well, one of the things we can actually publish) is, “If you don’t like […]
So we’re already basically halfway through 2022, and we’ve already seen more live events with full audiences in Prince George (and everywhere else) than we […]
In the past week, I got a reasonable amount of walking in, despite the less-than-perfect weather. When I sat down Sunday morning, I started thinking […]
Two years of no Relay for Life has become three. This year, though, it wasn’t COVID-19 that cancelled the event set for Saturday. It was […]
I have a special role to fulfill on Saturday. I will be the Master of Ceremonies for the Relay for Life at Lac des Bois. […]
So MTV started in 1981 and that’s when singers started doing music videos, right? Wrong. There is a clip on YouTube that I like to […]
Last week, I had another birthday. I had one last year too, but they seem to be coming faster for some reason. A couple of […]
So last Friday was Friday the 13th. I left my apartment to do a few errands late in the morning, and a couple of black […]
I have managed to get a few short walks in over the past few days. I keep them short because there are usually menacing clouds […]
I’m pretty sure I have written before about the problems drivers cause when they are (a) impatient and (b) don’t know (or care about) the […]
The Prince George Cougars came up just short in game two, falling 2-1 to the Portland Winterhawks at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The Winterhawks […]
Saturday, early afternoon, I leave my apartment and walk to the street next to it. I see my car across the street, and start to […]
Been listening to a fair bit of music the last couple of week because the weather is just not nice enough to go out walking, […]
Reading Ted Clarke’s story in the Citizen last week about the epic Brier showdown between Ron Northcott and Kevin Smale brought back memories. We lived […]
In my column last week, I talked about walking over to CN Centre on the Friday before the World Women’s Curling Championship to get my […]
I spent a good part of Friday afternoon trying to get my legs to talk to me again. I did a fair bit of walking […]
I was thinking about writing a very short column this week and explaining the time I usually wrote the column was the hour we lost […]
The time has come (I hope) to make a big change. I have spent a fair bit of the winter walking when I can on […]
It was a tale of one intersection and three pedestrians Tuesday morning. I was standing in the broadcast studio for CFIS-FM in the Q3 building […]
So it is less than a month until the World Women’s Curling Championship takes over the CN Centre with the Patch in Kin 1. There […]
Sometimes I will hear a story about a song and go: “That’s kind of neat.” Other times, I go: “Wow! That is something else”. This […]
It’s the most incredible coincidence. Every time we get a good dump of snow in Prince George, I find more examples of Blacktop Blockheads. Last […]
Today is a day Phil Connors can’t forget. Today is a day Phil Connors can’t forget. Phil Connors, for those who don’t remember, was the […]
So with only a couple of weeks until the 2022 Winter Olympics are supposed to start, Canada’s list of competitors is growing, but still nowhere […]
So how many different kinds of winter have we had already in Prince George, and it’s only the middle of January? Actually, how many kinds […]
It’s becoming a familiar refrain in every league in Canada. Let’s look at some of the headlines from the Western Hockey League website over the […]
Is it safe to come out from under the bed yet? Has someone checked to make sure 2021 has left? No, 2021 was not the […]
Many things have been written about this time of year across the ages. Every year, many of the same standards of the season are trotted […]
I spend a lot of time in this column talking about Blacktop Blockheads, so I thought it was only fair this week to talk about […]
I saw a mistake this week in a post on Facebook I hadn’t seen in some time, but which used to be sort of common. […]
It’s not often someone compares me to a crab for any reason. I guess it’s because most of the time when someone is described as […]
Sometimes things just work out in a way described by some as ‘synchronicity’. On Saturday, I was listening to REWIND Radio and the remote at […]
If a picture tells a thousand words, then I think I shot about a million words of photos one morning in Prince George when I […]
Well, a typical November week in Prince George. A week ago on Tuesday morning we had freezing rain that made the city streets . . […]
Welcome to the month of Novem-brrrr. I’ve had to scrape my car windows the last few mornings. It hasn’t been a real heavy frost yet […]
From Ghoulies and Ghosties, And long-leggity Beasties, And all Things that go bump in the Night, Good Lord deliver us. Anonymous Sunday is Halloween, […]
I was watching some YouTube videos on the weekend and saw one with an intriguing title, which I was pretty sure was a typo. The […]