Podunk Below the Masthead Archives May 2009

Our archive of the daily headline findings from Prince Rupert's Daily News newspaper, this one for the month of May 2009.

May 29-- COMMUNITY MEMBER IS ASKING FOR A LITTLE HELP-- Friday's front page featured some background on a local cancer patient, who faced with prospect of an unsuccesful battle against her disease, has but one wish, to take her family on one real holiday. The Daily outlines the road she has travelled so far and how the community can come to her assistance to make her final wish come true (Full review of the Friday paper can be found here)

May 28-- TINKER REALTY IS GOING THROUGH A METAMORPHISIS-- The local real estate scene is in the midst of a change once again, this time as Tinker Realty/Remax one of the major players in the real estate market offer up a different look.

The Tinker portion of the partnership is leaving the real estate portion of the industry as the Tinker brand now will be known only for property management on the North coast, those agents who will remain in the real estate business will be moving on to other firms or carrying the Remax flag from their homes, hopeful that the Remax brand will continue to attract buyers and sellers to those agents still ready to show homes.(Full review of the Thursday paper can be found here)

May 27-- DON SCOTT IS THE NEW FACE IN HARTLEY BAY-- He may have come in second in the recent Prince Rupert Mayoralty race, but Don Scott wasn't long between engagements. The one time Mayor of Prince Rupert has been introduced as the new CEO and Band Manager for Hartley Bay, the First Nations community due south of Prince Rupert. Scott will split his work time between the community and his duties at Prince Rupert's Northern Savings. (Full review of the Wednesday paper can be found here)

May 26-- OPENING CONCERT A GRAND WAY TO START OFF FESTIVAL-- The opening night for the Performing Arts BC Festival features a number of entertaining and talented performers, the Daily news sent Monica Lamb-Yorski off to record the events. (Full review of the Tuesday paper can be found here)

May 25-- PRSS GRADS RECEIVE ACCOLADES FOR JOB WELL DONE-- The First of the grad ceremonies this year took place on Friday night as the students of PRSS celebrated their achievements over their time at the west side secondary school. The PRSS Graduation ceremony took place at the PAC on Friday, with proud parents, teachers and administrators wishing well to their departing class (Full review of the Monday paper can be found here)

May 22-- TRICORP IS LOOKING AT IPPs FOR INVESTMENT-- With past some of the key regulations for investment now change, Tricorp, the First Nations investment firm from the Northwest is changing its investment direction. The investment group is moving away from just the funding of local business opportunities for First Nations residents to a more diversified portfolio. One which will dip a toe in the current hot topic of Independent Power Production. (Full review of the Friday paper can be found here)

May 21-- SCHOOL DISTRICT IS CONSIDERING MIDDLE SCHOOL OPTIONS-- The return of the middle school may be on the agenda for School District 52 as they contemplate all of their options heading into the final steps of their budget for 2010. (Full review of the Thursday paper can be found here)

May 20-- ANTE UP ON OIL TRANSPORT AS CN SHOWS MORE INTEREST-- The Daily News outlines some of the thoughts from the port and the mayor over the proposed Pipeline on Rail project from CN, an idea we have mentioned to our loyal readers here on the blog a couple of times, here from April 13 and most recently six days ago, on May 14 with this posting. (Full review of the Wednesday paper can be found here)

May 19-- TURRIFF IN TOWN TO TALK ON INDEPENDENCE OF LAWYERS-- The president of the BC Law Society was on the North coast last week, here to speak on the need for independence for lawyers from the political process and interference of Parliament. (Full review of the Tuesday paper can be found here)

May 15-- BLOCKSTOCK IS BACK IN PRINCE RUPERT-- The city's outdoor music festival, normally tied in with Seafest weekend will return this year, thanks to some organizational help from some local business owners. Ted Keehn, Ted Sylvester and Joe Viscount have come together to keep the Blockstock groove happening. All that stands in the way of roadblock is a lack of talent, the organizers need at least six bands to sign up for the evenings showbill to make it work. Hopeful acts should contact Ted Keehn at Teddy's downtown for more details. (Full review of the Friday paper can be found here)

May 14-- RUPERT BORN FIREFIGHTER IS WORKING WITH A NEW HEART-- Former Prince Rupert resident Brian Parsons has a new heart and a new lease on life, the Daily News outlined the latest in his remarkable story as the front page headline story in the Thursday paper. (Full review of the Thursday paper can be found here)

May 13--NDP INCUMBENT RIDES AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS-- The re-election of NDP candidate Gary Coons as the MLA for the North coast was the featured item in Wednesday's edition as the paper outlined details of the election night results. From Coon's successful campaign to the disappointment in the Pond camp as well as the excitement for Green candidate Lisa Girbav, Tuesday night's results made for the headline, front page story in the Wednesday paper. (Full review of the Wednesday paper can be found here)

May 12-- SCHOOL DISTRICT ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FOR PROJECT FUNDING-- Despite uncertain futures, budgetary constraints and a large volume of possible projects, individual schools were being encouraged by the School District to think big and offer up their causes for consideration. With declining enrollment and uncertain futures for a few of the local schools, the process of application will provide a list of potential projects for the School District to examine at its next Annual Budget Committee meeting. (Full review of the Tuesday paper can be found here)


May 11-- RUPERT SPCA WILL BE 'FED UP' WITH NEW PET FOOD SUPPLIER-- The local branch of the SPCA will benefit from a province wide deal with Hill's Pet Nutrition, which will supply branches of the BC SPCA with two years worth of free meals, some 206,000 pounds of food over the course of those two years. (Full review of the Thursday paper can be found here)

May 8-- DANCER RECEIVES A PERFECT SCORE IN LOCAL COMPETITION-- The front page, headline story in the Friday paper featured the achievement of Prince George dancer, Matthew Cluff, who received a perfect score at the BC Annual Dance competition at the Lester Centre. The Daily outlined his work regiment and competitive spirt as part of the front page story. (Full review of the Friday paper can be found here)


May 7-- CAMPBELL MAKES A PIT-STOP IN PRINCE RUPERT-- As we outlined on this very blog on Wednesday afternoon, Premier Campbell made a pit stop in Podunk, in a hopeful bid to boost the chances of his candidate in Tuesday's Provincial election. (Full review of the Thursday paper can be found here)

May 6--RUPERT CITIZENS SUPPORT RALLY AGAINST PIPELINES-- Wednesday's front page headline story outlines the local residents who took a bus to Terrace to protest against a planned pipeline through the Skeena riding near Terrace and Kitimat. A bus load of Rupertites arrived in Terrace to offer their support to the Wet'suwe'ten protest outside the Enbridge offices on Tuesday. (Full review of the Wednesday paper can be found here)

May 5--FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE... FOR DANCING-- The front page, headline story features an outline of one of the judges at this years BC Annual dance Competition currently taking place at the Lester Centre of the Arts. Julia Bantner, an adjudicator at the competition recounts her travels over the years, from her homeland of Russia, on to fame as a dancer with Celine Dion's recent Las Vegas shows and now as an adjudicator of dance. (Full review of the Tuesday paper can be found here)

May 4--OVER ONE THOUSAND TAKE THE TOUR OF THE NEW B. C. FERRY-- Rupertites took in the good weather over the weekend with a trip to the waterfront and a chance to take a tour of the newest vessel in the BC Ferry fleet the Northern Expedition. BC Ferries hosted over one thousand residents on Saturday as they examined the decks and amenities of the new ferry. (Full review of the Monday paper can be found here)

May 1--HIRE ME! LOCAL CANDIDATES FORUM-- The Daily News provides its review and interpretation of the Wednesday night candidates forum held at the Lester Centre of the Arts. Items of discussion on Wednesday included; education, employment and the environment to name a few. With George T. Baker providing his take on the evenings revelations. (Full review of the Friday paper can be found here)