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Radio Interview
Word is starting to get out about the blog and I am grateful that this resource is appreciated. To making things easy to remember I have add a second domain name to the site. You can now access the site by just typing in www.pgelxn.com
I did a phone interview with Marissa Harvey over at the Vista Broadcast Group here in Prince George. It was my first radio interview and from the people who heard it I sounded good. 94X FM and 97 FM The Wolf played the clip on the noon news. I am thankful for Marissa Harvey giving me the opportunity to share this blog on the radio. The interview is also on their website at HQ Prince George so go and check it out. I’m not sure if they will air the clip again on the radio, but I hope so as the residents of Prince George need to know this resource is here. My hope is to get everyone out to vote on November 19th and have their voice heard. This is our city and the decisions city council makes will affect all of our lives. Make sure it affects you in a positive way and that can only happen if we all vote!
Prince George Citizen Fourm
Well tonight was the Prince George Citizen forum at the Ramada Hotel and it was very well attended. every seat in the house was full and the sides as well as the atrium outside of the conference room was pack with standing citizens. It was great to see this type of response from the city seeing as the first three forums had very poor turn out. Only three candidates did not make this forum and those were Brandon Lewis, Bruce Fader, and Travis Smith. There was a lot of great questions and the council candidates only have 30 seconds to answer them. Mayoral candidates had a minute to answer the questions, but this was in part due to only four candidates showing up. I hope that this is a sign of things to come, and I believe it is, as we get closer to the November 19th election.
I have added another submission to the council page. This submission is from Myrt Turner. With this submission i now have only 9 more council candidates to get submissions from and 5 more mayoral candidates. I have gotten e-mails from a few saying they are sending in something and I have chat with a few at the forums that have said the same thing. So we should have full participation.
I have received an e-mail from a school trustee that is hoping I can add a page on here for them. I will be adding that page in the next day or two as I am hearing a demand for citizens for this as well. I have not been overly interested in the School district trustee race, but seeing as I have two daughters that attend school in Prince George I should probably take a much bigger interest in how running and what for.
Here are a few of the tweets that came up on twitter from the Prince George Citizen forum….
anitapamaral Nov 03, 6:01pm
Standing room only left. Should be a good forum tonight. Come on down for a 6pm start. pgelxn.wordpress.com #PGelxn #iheartPG
anitapamaral Nov 03, 6:49pm
Gotta say @ShariGreen4Mayr has really seemed to kick this election up a notch. Some refreshing comments and very well spoken tonight #PGelxn
KCreamore Nov 03, 6:51pm
And Fetterly has arrived and only an hour late. Kind of weird to see him in a suit & tie. #PGelxn pgelxn.wordpress.com
anitapamaral Nov 03, 7:00pm
#PGelxn on selling PG: @garthfrizzell “we have to stop being the best well-kept secret” #IheartPG
anitapamaral Nov 03, 7:27pm
Agreed! Let’s vote on Nov19 to shake it up a bit! RT @BillBS @anitapamaral yeah that’s not right that’s why we need new blood #PGelxn
JenniferBrandle Nov 03, 7:29pm
@anitapamaral With #princegeorge Chamber/Public Library Forum this Tues, I’m interested in how the format works tonight, do tell. #PGelxn
ron_gallo Nov 03, 7:42pm
Eugene Fetterley “long live Brian Skakun” at #princegeorgeall-candidates forum #PGelxn
BillBS Nov 03, 7:49pm
Garth you’re right on – one of our best.
ron_gallo Nov 03, 7:52pm
Loud and sustained applause for Brian Skakun in reference to his stand on transparency. #PGelxn
BillBS Nov 03, 8:02pm
One of the Mayoralty candidates is an embarrassment yet he gets applause.
anitapamaral Nov 03, 8:11pm
“we need to flatten city hall…. I mean we have to flatten the decision-making in city hall” @stolzpg #freudianslip#PGelxn
Local Media: Council Candidates
So in an attempt to clean up the blog feed I have compacted the past Local Media post into a couple of posts. The first one was a post for Mayoral candidates and links to past articles about the candidates running for mayor. The second post, this post, is links to past articles about council candidates. So here are links to past articles about council candidates
Scot Affleck
Prince George Free Press – Affleck focuses on municipal spending
John Beebe
Prince George Citizen – Candidate frustrated by council procedure changes
Prince George Citizen – Running for councillor: John Beebe
Joanne Dickenson
Prince George Citizen – Houston councillor added to PG ballot
Frank Everitt
Prince George Free Press – Labour boss shoots for seat on council
Prince George Free Press – Dickenson runs for city council
Dorothy Friesen
Garth Frizzell
Prince George Citizen – Frizzell to seek reelection
Jordan Gadsby
Prince George Free Press – Gadsby would bring different perspective to council table
Brad Gagnon
Prince George Free Press – Brad Gagnon runs for city council
Lyn Hall
Prince George Free Press – Hall sets sights on city council seat
Albert Koehler
Prince George Free Press – Koehler seeks seat on city council
Murry Krause
Prince George Citizen – Rogers, Skakun, Krause seeking re-election
Prince George Free Press – Krause looking for fifth term on council
Debora Munoz
Prince George Citizen – Munoz seeking re-election
Prince George Citizen – Incumbent, running for councillor: Debora Munoz
Prince George Free Press – Munoz seeks re-election to city council
Travis Shaw
Prince George Citizen – Running for councillor: Travis Shaw
Prince George Citizen – Shaw unveils campaign platform
Prince George Free Press – Travis Shaw seeks spot on city council
Brian Skakun
Prince George Citizen – Rogers, Skakun, Krause seeking re-election
Cameron Stolz
Prince George Free Press – Stolz seeks second term on council
Myrt Turner
Prince George Free Press – Myrt Turner runs for council
Harry Ulch
Prince George Free Press – Ulch seeking seat on city council
Dave Wilbur
Local Media: Mayoral Candidates
So in an attempt to clean up the blog feed I have compacted the past Local Media post into a couple of posts. The first is a Mayoral post of links to past articles about the candidates for mayor. The second post is links to past articles about council candidates. From now on I will blog post of media stuff for the day instead of separately. This will make things nicer looking and easier for you the reader to keep tack of. I will try to include as many article links as possible, but if I miss any please leave a comment in the comments section below so that other users of the site can go to them. First off is links to past articles for Mayoral Candidates
Eugene Fetterly
Free Press – Fetterly runs for mayor
Bruce Fader
Prince George Free Press – Bruce Fader runs for mayor
Brandon Lewis
Prince George Free Press – Brandon Lewis runs for mayor
Prince George Citizen – Running for mayor
Alex Huber
Prince George Free Press – Alex Huber runs for mayor
Shari Green
Prince George Citizen – Councillor announces bid for mayor’s chair
Prince George Citizen – Incumbent, mayoral candidate
Prince George Free Press – Mayoral candidate unveils platform
Dan Rogers
Prince George Free Press – Rogers seeking re-election
Prince George Citizen – Mayor kicks off reelection bid
Three more!
Hello all back here with another update from three Candidates. Thank you to Dorothy Friesen, Garth Frizzell, and Debora Munoz for being apart of this initiative. I hope to meet up with the candidates that have not responded tonight at the forum that is being held at Cafe Voltaire which is in Books & Company on 2nd Ave. I hope to see lot of people there tonight and bring your questions. There is another Forum tomorrow night at the Ramada Inn starting at 6:00pm. This forum is being held by local newspaper The Prince George Citizen and will be a good one to attend. So if you can`t make it out tonight then try to attend the one tomorrow.
There has been a recent update to the forum page and a new forum has now been added. The new one is being held by the Prince George Chamber of Commerce and is on Nov 8th at 6:00pm at the College of New Caledonia. Thank you to Garth Frizzell for the comment on the forum page about the new forum. I’ve heard whispers that the Prince George Native Friendship Centre is looking at doing a forum, but it is just whispers and time is running out so I would not count on much happening there. Check out the forum page for other details and other forums that will be going on around the Prince George area.
Spread the words to your friends and family about this resource. The more people who visit the site the word will get out and people will have a place to read and make informed decisions. The vote is your to us, we just have to get out and use it. #iheartPG
