who’s bright idea to change the name…they should be ashamed!! my famliy will never set foot in there again…shame on you!

Time to change “BC’s Northern Capital” to “BC’s Interior Capital” in a reaching out effort to folks throughout the province …..;-)

From “First we take Manhattan”

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”

100 Tractors. I did not realize there were still that many left ….

The BC Forest Service is 100 years old this year as well. So is Huble Homestead, and Giscome Portage is much older than that.

Will there be recognition of “survivors”? Time to do some serious logger sports?

How about 100 year old farms/ranches owned by the same family for 100+ years? Any of those in the area? There is a Century Farm Award Program. I wonder if there are any in the larger region of the PGX?

78 days, eh? To me that is two and a half hydro bills, two natural gas bills, two ICBC payments, two cablevision bills, two and half mortgage payments, uncountable grocery trips, gasoline for our vehicles, city taxes for sure, two phone bills, a couple of charge card payments, one bunch of dough for flowers and bedding plants for my estate so drivers going by can be distracted from the pot holed roads. If that is what you live for, to go to the fair, knock yerself out.

scruffy: “who’s bright idea to change the name…they should be ashamed!! my famliy will never set foot in there again…shame on you! “

Is this a joke? I don’t get it.

That’s showin’ em Scruffy! Fight da powa!

“Is this a joke? I don’t get it”

Scruffy is simply stating that he/she is not one of the sheep.

Either “scruffy” is very set in his/her ways and simply does not like a name change to something that he/she grew up with, or is simply trying to find an excuse for not going. :-)

Then again, who knows, other than scruffy.

I mean, when the PGX was first started, it was not called the PGX ….. and Canada was not called Canada, it was called the Dominion of Canada …. and it had a different flag …. and Newfoundland was not part of the Dominion …..

I prefer Harbinger’s reasons for not going … ;-)

What does it matter what it’s called? It’s the same awful hillbilly-fest it’s always been.

“Scruffy is simply stating that he/she is not one of the sheep.”

This makes no sense, but whatever.

This site really is full of venomous cynics. Depressing really, the comments section. It’s like a car crash – horrific, but you can’t look away. I miss the days of reading thw news without having to hear the squawking opinion of some ill-informed a-hole.

The PGX is a huge event for the community, and I am excited about the big 100th anniversary shindig.

Excellent comments curmudgeonscurse! We are such a bunch of whiny spoiled disgusting brats in this country, province, and City.

But underneath we are still a bunch of good ol’ boys. (at least I am). We don’t whine. We just make justifiable observations, is all.

No….we whine, snivel, pout, criticize, attack, demotivate each other, and act like the spoiled brats of the planet we have the luxury and privalege of being. “Justifiable” only from the point of view of our selfish and self centred culture. Come on…look at the comments regarding the amazing volunteers who put on the PGX year after year….you can’t really tell me this is “justifiable” if you’re one of the PGX volunteers who do so much for the betterment of our City??? Would you want to keep volunteering if you were dumped on in this manner?

You would think the world was coming to an end they way some have reacted to this name change.

It’s incredible that such pettiness exists, but there’s not much you can do about it.

Of course it makes no sense to you johnny boy. You’re one of the sheep that goes along with anything our overseers come up with.

Hey curmudgeon, if you dont like it don’t read it. You’re here crying about things just like the rest. Get over it.

Dragonmaster needs a nap.

My significant other volunteered at the PGX for more than nine years. So I am no stranger to the PGX. She received a tin cup full candy and a burnt hamburger one year at the volunteer get together. Most impressive, eh?

So you’re disgruntled because your wife didn’t get a big enough prize for volunteering. The other volunteers should have given your volunteer more swag. But then who gives those other volunteers their swag? If that’s the reason you’re negative towards the PGX then that’s just plain weird.

On the over all scheme of things I really don’t give a rats ass. Just sayin’. I’m gruntled. Good enuff fer ya?

Gus you brought up some good points, thank you!

“100 Tractors. I did not realize there were still that many left ….” Come on down to the fairgrounds on Sunday August 12 and find out. An entire committee of volunteers and then some are working hard to make it happen. It is a HUGE job, and FREE labour.

“The BC Forest Service is 100 years old this year as well. So is Huble Homestead, and Giscome Portage is much older than that.” I believe that the BC Forest Service Centennial was last year and they celebrated it in Heritage Lane, in the Ft. St. James National Historic Site’s Exhibit – last summer. The Chamber of Commerce was also invited to participate, to be recognized for their 100th last year, but declined.

“Will there be recognition of “survivors”? Time to do some serious logger sports?” Regarding the former, that is what the Legacy Banquet is all about and a large committee has been working all winter to track them down…with logger sports, don’t know how serious it will be, but there is a logger show all five days. If you can help round up the funding and the participants/competitors for a “serious” old-time competition, give the organizers a call, they can use all the help they can get.

“How about 100 year old farms/ranches owned by the same family for 100+ years? Any of those in the area? There is a Century Farm Award Program. I wonder if there are any in the larger region of the PGX?”. Excellent idea. Perhaps that is why the Blackburns from the original Blackburn Farm & Dairy have been invited to attend the Legacy Banquet, also, and will be honoured there. Further, the Blackburn House facade and exhibit, complete with their army of volunteers – have been in Heritage Lane at the PGx for several years and return again this summer. Ditto with the Huble Farm in the form of the Seebach & Huble General Store facade – they are in Heritage Lane (for several years) and this summer the fair board is adding the Huble House facade to recognize the 100th year of the House.

This is just a veritable drop in the bucket, Gus.

Regarding the Century Farm Award – the PGX will be presented with a category within this award, from the Ministry of Agriculture – at the centennial this summer.

THANK THE VOLUNTEERS! without them it would not be possible – many return decade after decade, generation following generation and some come back even after they have moved away – they book days to weeks of paid and unpaid holiday time to set up, operated and drag it all down and cover expenses from their own pockets….sorry some don’t feel they have been thanked adequately.

Regarding the “Hillbilly” statement….come on down to the fairgrounds, and meet some bullriders, draft horse cowboys/girls, team penners, barrel racers and more…or do you mean the 4-H kids and their families and volunteers…or the firefighters from throughout the province from volunteer fire departments….or is it the 1,000 per day of volunteers on grounds replenishing toilet paper, sweeping up your garbage, or maybe you mean the logger show brawnies….or the kids, the seniors, the families that attend…not sure where these hillbillies are – if so call me one of ’em, my friend!

Harbinger….why do you bother to get out of bed in the morning…just wondern’. With the other 40, 000 plus thru the gates your presence won’t be missed:(

See you at the Fair!

Harbinger is right on–Lenny is right on but he’s describing himself and his peers; just like Harbinger is. If lenny wants to be all those things he’s suggesting “we” are, that’s his perogative. He’s doesn’t know most of us so I presume he is getting this information from the mirror.

Scruffy, are you related to MattyC?

I WILL NOT ever show up there. The prices are a big rippoff and don’t forget there has to be HST for it all as well. And I WILL NOT pay HST for this. I aint one of the sheep either and I think that should be readily aparent to all of you that LOVE to bash me. Maybe if they made it affordable for the rides like 25 cents for a ride I might go. I don’t care what the name is for the show. I have a problem with the RIPOFF prices. Enjoy it though johnny and enjoy your HST payments.

Soon the HST will be extinguished and the LIE berals will be also EXTINGUISHED. Every last one of ’em

I think that answers your question, Albus.

I think we are into the same question that had a lot of people perplexed at the turn of the millenium regarding what anniversary it is.

If we start an event in 2012, that will be the first event. In 2013, if that event will be held again, it will be the second.

One year will have passed between the first and second event. So it will be the first anniverary of the event starting.

E1 …. E2 …. E3 …. E4 …. E5

In the above “diagram” there are 5 events but only 4 intervening periods.

Thus, if the founding and first event of today’s PG exhibition started in 1912, then the 100th PGx was last year, in 2011. This year’s will be the 101st PGX, not 100th as the headline states.

Of course, as some people know, there were some evetns which were cancelled for a variety of reasons. So, in reality, it is neither the 100th or 101st PGX this year. I believe someone tried to do that calculation by researching the newspapers, but the result was not very convincing since the data was not all accessible.

What can be said with relatively reliable certainty is that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first PGX event, and for all intents and purposes, the actual event will be the 101st if one disregards the years when an event did not take place.

As to the Forestry service, that is very easy. The service was created by BC in 1912 and 2012 marks the 100th Anniversary, not 2011.

From the Forest Service
http://www.bcfs100.ca/bscripts/index.asp

From Opinion 250 in February 2012
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/23442/1/b.c.+forest+service+centennial+celebrations+start+today

So, while Fort St. James celebrated last year, the PGx has the opportunity to repeat it again this year and invite the Forest Service to participate and represent itself properly … ;-)

Counting is not a strong suit in the North … LOL

Oh … if the PGX organizers were to lable each one of the tractors with a date, starting with 1912 and include a tractor for this year, 2012 … they would need 101 tractors …

Unless, of course, they would skip the years, and thus a tractor, for each year the event was cancelled…… ;-)

or maybe get 101 Dalmations ….. :-0

mattyc: thanks for my smile of the day! You’ll teach the evil empire HST devils a lesson they’ll never forget by you not showing up to the PGX! I, on the other hand, will go “baaah baaah baaah” as I view the 4H kids sheep – my close relatives!