Podunk Below the Masthead, Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Salvation Army outlines details on its transitional housing plans, a downtown business owner has two weeks to make his repairs and the debate heats up over light houses on the west coast, some of the items of interest for Tuesday.

The Northern View
Salvation Army looks to buy motel for transition housing -- People who have successfully graduated from a drug or alcohol rehab program may soon have transitional housing in the city as the Salvation Army looks at purchasing the Aleeda Motel downtown (see article here)

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City gives building owner two weeks to do needed repairs-- The owner of the old Home Hardware building on Third Avenue has two weeks to get the job done on repairs to his building or have the city contract the work out and bill him for their efforts (see article here)

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Shop local this year-- The Northern View offers up an editorial endorsing the value of shopping local in the community (see article here)

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Pacific Coast School growing -- The staff of the city's downtown alternative school Pacific Coast made a presentation to school board last week outlining their progress and highlighting their attendance trends (see article here)

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District of Port Edward council raises busing concerns-- Port Edward reviews some of their concerns over some aspects of the transit service from Prince Rupert into the District (see article here)

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United front key to growing coal shipments, says delegation -- Some of the thoughts of the participants in a recent trade mission to Asia (see article here)

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Early morning arrest results in multiple charges for youth -- Prince Rupert RCMP make an arrest in after reports of a suspicious person in the Gull Crescent area (see article here)

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RCMP urge use of winter tires-- A reminder from the RCMP of the benefits of using winter tires on the north coast during the winter months (see article here)

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School district gets 200 new computers-- School District 52 is set to distribute 200 new computers to schools across the district, with 100 computers in stock Conrad School was the first to receive a share of their allotment (see article here)

CFTK TV 7 News
Automate Lighthouses and endanger lives say North Coast mariners -- The debate over proposed automation of pacific coast light houses grows in the Northwest (see article here) Sahar Nassimdoost offered up this report for the nightly newscast (see video here)

CFTK TV 7
News Terrace man alleges police misconduct outside nightclub-- Details of a civil suit launched by a Terrace resident against members of that city's RCMP detachment (see article here)

CFTK TV 7 News
Aaron Prtichett-- A Canadian country music star lends a hand to some fundraising for a Smithers area school (see video here)

Terrace Standard
Residents hatch idea to save Thornhill Jr.-- Coast Mountain School District's plans to close Thornhill Junior runs into some opposition from residents of the Thornhill area, who offer up their own blue print for the school's future (see article here)

KRBD Ketchikan radio
Johansen fails to alleviate concerns of constituents-- A Ketchikan based Republican falls short in his explanation for stepping down from a leadership position, with District One Republicans expressing disappointment with his answers (listen to radio report here)

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