Allan’s Amblings

Sometimes it’s the little things that give me hope in the younger generation. I was at Pine Centre a few days ago, and a young […]

I am not a night owl. If the Spruce Kings game we broadcast on Friday evenings on CFIS goes overtime and doesn’t finish until about […]

Man, it’s tough to think of a topic for today’s column. It’s the end of October, we’re in between seasons, too early to talk about […]

Let’s just say last week was pretty busy for me, and the weekend was spent sort of resting up, so what I have this week […]

The good news, for anyone who has tried to unravel the NHL’s tiebreaker system or (even worse) the one used in the World Cup of […]

It is a great time to be a sports fan, both at the local level and at the professional level. Locally, high school volleyball teams […]

Big news on the international front for Canada this week. The trade agreement between the three North American countries has gone from being an acronym […]

How do you know when the universe is working in your favour for a change? When you go to a Seattle Mariners baseball game at […]

I saw something Saturday that I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, and had hoped I would never see again. Then I saw it […]

“Labor day, shmabor day. What a dumb day. To hire some jerk, then send him away… To celebrate work by playing all day.” That’s from […]

The expression, “If you don’t like the weather in Prince George, wait five minutes,” is a common one, especially in spring and autumn. On Friday […]

There are mysteries in life both big (what happened to the Roanoke settlement?) and small (what happened to my sock in last week’s laundry?). Some […]

I don’t watch a lot of TV. That doesn’t stop me from watching a lot of the auditions for the various incarnations of The Voice […]

So the parking lot at Studio 2880 became a bus route on Monday, much to my surprise. I was just getting ready to host After […]

As many people know, I am a real baseball fan. Part of the attraction for me, also being a numbers nut, is the sheer volume […]

There are a lot of things that make me go “Hmmmm”. Here are a few of them (some local, some more wide-ranging; some with possible […]

There’s a birthday party being thrown down at the park on Sunday, and everyone is invited. It’s Canada’s 151st birthday (where does the time go?) […]

I’m not a coin collector, which is a shame, because I got a neat one on Saturday. It marked the 90th anniversary of the White […]

Random Ramblings for a mid-June Wednesday. I got to bed at a reasonable hour Saturday evening, just before 10 p.m. I didn’t get to sleep […]

Over the weekend, I saw some vehicles with Alberta licence plates (not too unusual), a couple from Manitoba (a little unusual at this time of […]

I was out for a walk a couple of days ago, and a black cat crossed my path. I am not superstitious, so I did […]

I was over at Spruceland Shopping Centre late Sunday morning, and I noticed a number of things in the parking lot area which I have […]

Between the Home & Garden Show, the final few Spruce Kings broadcasts, starting to get things ready for our lacrosse broadcasts, and some other minor […]

It’s spring (in theory). A time for gentle breezes, green grass . . . and Psycho Cyclists. Yes, drivers and pedestrians of Prince George, your […]

The first I heard of it was in a Facebook post from Ron Gallo on Friday evening. It wasn’t a big post, just something along […]

So Mother Nature decided to pull an April Fool’s joke on a Prince George a few days early. That’s the only explanation I have for […]

A few people got upset with me on Sunday when I pointed out it was only nine months to Christmas. What can I say, I […]

Some Random Roadside Ramblings this week, occasioned by a few drives (and one walk) around the city over the past few days. Let’s start at […]

I am having a very hard time figuring out what is going on with some of the traffic lights in Prince George these days. Over […]

Going to do some Random Ramblings this week as part of my Amblings. And yes, a fair number of them are road and weather related. […]

Last Thursday turned out to be a day I got a lot more walking done than I had figured on. It started at about 10 […]

The good thing about this past weekend, from a sports fan’s point of view, was we got rid of two of the ‘phony’ All-Star Games […]

  There are some days where I sit down to write this column, and the words just seem to flow. I have an idea of […]

  A penny for your thoughts. It’s a concept the youngest generation of Canadians may have trouble with, since we no longer have pennies in […]

  Tuesday morning. 7 a.m. I am eastbound on 15th Avenue, approaching Ospika Boulevard. There are no vehicles in the eastbound lanes ahead of me […]

  Happy New Year to all my readers (both of you). I spent this New Year’s Eve the same place I have spent all of […]

It’s that week of the year that seems to hover in space and time, with no real purpose to it. It’s the week between Christmas […]

  I was only volunteering one night last weekend with Operation Red Nose. I came down with a bad bout of the flu Wednesday evening […]

  There is a particular species of Blacktop Blockhead who can be found at most intersections in Prince George, at almost any time of the […]

  Where were you when the lights went out? Sitting in the dark. That was the situation for a fair number of people in Prince […]

  I was hurting some on Sunday evening and Monday. Nothing to do with any of my favourite sports teams losing or anything like that […]

Walking from home to the CFIS studio on Monday morning, I was surprised and amazed. I was surprised by how well most of the vehicles […]

  This Saturday is Remembrance Day. There has been and will be so much written about the meaning and importance of the day, and by […]

  So we will have a new swimming pool and a new fire hall. The voters (unfortunately a very low number) have spoken. When I […]

  So we’ve pretty much made it through the city’s first summer and fall with the new bike lanes on many of the streets. I […]

  I’m writing this column on a rainy day, which also happens to be a Monday, and that’s really got me down. I think I’ll […]

  Trivia. Its derivation is from the Roman for ‘where three roads meet’. The three roads referred to were three branches of learning which were […]

Memories. People write songs about them, they write books about them, they’re afraid of losing them. Sometimes, a memory comes to the front of your […]

We’re just over halfway through September, and it seems that the month will live up to its reputation in Prince George of being four seasons […]

I worked in newspapers for more than 20 years before I joined CFIS radio a couple of years ago. At first, when I started with […]

At the Spruceland Mall, there is a spot in the parking lot with two facing spots. One is marked ‘Taxi’; the other is marked ‘RCMP’. […]

Saturday evening, I had the feeling of being in a time warp – twice. When I stepped out of Kin 1 at about 8 p.m., […]

In The Republic, Plato wrote (but not in English, of course), “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is […]

And so we come to August. It’s one of only two months named after a person, as opposed to a mythological being or a number. […]

Maybe he was inspired by the Doobie Brothers and Listen to the Music. Maybe it was Berlin and No More Words. We know it wasn’t […]

As I write this last Monday morning, Prince George is feeling the effects of the forest fires which are ravaging the province, without actually being […]

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear Canada. Happy birthday to you. Place doesn’t look too bad for 150 years. Oh […]

Once again this week, karma reared its head for a driver in a hurry, and I happened to have a front-row seat. I was second […]

First things first. I’m sure you’ve all been waiting breathlessly for the news that I am back in the 21st Century. I have an operational cellphone […]

I am a man bereft and forlorn. I am a man ripped from the world around him, and left to twist slowly in the wind, […]