North East Flies High: One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

  It may be a little thing, but have you noticed that Ft St John, Grande Prairie and Dawson Creek have quietly taken over the Air Show business in the central and northern part of the province?

There was a time every summer when Vanderhoof used to be the spot where the show took place and it attracted not only area residents but a lot of folks from PG.

Well regardless of how it got switched to PG (and the comment of the day was that we tried to take it away from them because they couldn’t operate it the show in a profitable manner) the show came to this city, lasted a few years.  But instead of trying to build a first class show for this region and spending some real hard time on it, it simply died on the vine.

The result?  Our neighbors to the north spotted an opportunity and now have capitalized on it.

Oh you might say that getting some Olympians to train in PG makes more sense but did anyone ever stop to think just what that air show brought into the community and just what kind of exposure it gave us to the rest of Canada?

Well in the end instead of teaming up with Vanderhoof , Quesnel or any other adjoining communities to make it work, we simply shot it dead and you can’t help but wonder just where are our priorities?

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion

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