PGX Seeks Funds
Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 3:55 AM
Prince George, B.C.- The Prince George Exhibition is calling on Prince George City Council this evening to come across with a $100 thousand dollar grant.
The PGX is planning its 100th anniversary edition for this year, and is planning a major change in name and marketing to go along with that Centennial celebration.
The PGX is looking to become the BC Northern Exhibition (BCNE) and become a full northern celebration.
The plans for this year’s exhibition, which will be held August 8th through 12th, include the largest fireworks display ever seen in this part of the Province.
Council may be hard pressed to come across with the money as it is developing a budget that would see taxes climb by 3.12% without any additions, and with the recently announced reduction in jobs at City Hall.
Comments
Go for it! I`d rather see the city spend 350 grand on something like this than a “core review’. After all, it`s our money!
BC Northern Exhibition, eh? How about having it in January/February then. That’ll remind everyone it is the north, which it actually isn’t.
Why not the BC Central Exhibition?
Quation: If the GVRD is Southern BC, which town would be the least likely to be in northern BC … Multi-choice answers
1. Watson Lake
2. Fort Nelson
3. Fort St. John
4. Dawson Creek
5. Chetwynd
6. Tumbler Ridge
7. Mackenzie
8. Vanderhoof
9. Burns Lake
10. Houston
11. Smithers
12. Terrace
13. Prince Rupert
14. Prince George
For those who are geographically challenged, the centre orf PG is located roughly 550 km from the USA border and 675 km from the Yukon border.
To my weird view of the world, that puts us into the northern part of the lower half of the province …… sometimes people call such geographic placement “centre” or “central”.
Poor Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. The name “BC Northern” anything appears to have been stolen. No wonder they prefer to play with Alberta than us. ;-)
Does anyone think this might be a movement to reduce the size of BC to the southern half? That would make us northern BC .. and make the rest part of Alberta and the Yukon.
Anything north of Kelowna is considered northern BC, and even Kelowna was considered northern BC before Bennetts’ pet project to link it to the coast.
When I came to this town in 1973, this was called the Central Interior of BC. Those old timers knew their geography …. ;-)
Who is dictating this northern chit anyway? And then BC Northern Captial.
That’s like Victoria.
Only Alberta got it right. The capital is in the middle of the province.
In Sakatchewan, the southern major city is capital, but Saskatoon is now larger.
Central Interior Native Health Society.http://cinhs.org
Long time residents :-)
They are native to this land :-)
They know their geography. :-)
The PGX is a small town fair that thinks it is the northern PNE and charges accordingly. Not much there to see . One hundred grand to put on a fireworks display and finance a name change is a bit rich for PG since we are laying off employees and having core reviews. I think a hundred grand could be much better spent in other places.
A one time fireworks display of any size is not going to salvage this fair. They need to get back to the roots of the exhibition, back to an agricultural base, with a litlle tinsel and glitter of to one side. Bring back loggers’s sports, truck and tractor pulls, rodeo, maybe add a few monster trucks. The Ag side of things has been faltering in recent years, to me the exhibition has become a sort of trade show with a midway. After all, it really is a small town fair, that does not compare well with the ones at Dawson Creek, or Vanderhoof.
metalman.
The PGX already nickle and dimes everyone who attends from parking, admission costs, fair costs, etc…. I think that they should have to focus on finding funding in other places than the city or government funding and really have to work for donations. Maybe we would get more ‘fair’ for our buck if the donations are really worked for and accounted for rather than having more of our tax dollars handed out with little to no accountability.
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