Anyone remember the Foton Store?

Good luck Homework, hope they got cheap rent.

We welcome new retail businesses to the downtown. If we value downtown business, we have a responsibility to support them.

At least check out the store and give them a chance. They can't do it without us. Chester

This is great news. Let's embrace Homework and welcome them to PG. Some folks just want to be negative nellies.

Opinionated: absolutely....thank goodness some people have faith and hope for our downtown.

I have faith and hope for this city. It's a good one. I just wish others that post here could see that. Insted of moaning and groaning make a difference, shut up or move! I hear Iran is nice now.

Opinionated. Why dont you shut up or move. Who do you think you are. Get a life. Iran probably wouldnt let you in.

Palopu we agree on something. ;-)

Who do I think I am Palopu? I am a person that genuinely likes this community. Do I think everything about it is perfect, heavens no but I don't moan and groan about it. I try to contribute where I can. I am lucky to live in PG.

"Why dont you shut up or move." Nice bit of tolerance and support of freedom of speech!

Why don't you have those who dare to express an opinion different from yours arrested and loaded on a boat to nowhere?

Anyways..., good luck Homework. We're looking for a new couch so we'll check in out.
Downtown isn't a rough place but it is seedy. The bums have pretty much taken over those streets, and the city intends to bring in more tribes of bums, so good luck. As long as you don't try to clean up the place your windows won't get broken.

" more tribes of bums"? Well there's a term of reference that is new to me. Thanks. Can I use it? Funky store for a funky downtown, I guess.

Whoa, someone sure didn`t get their Wheeties this morning.

Bunch of you like to complain and bitch towards and about each other and Prince George, but not see the bright side of things in this article that these entrepeneurs have faith in the downtown to invest there. Good for you. Hope all goes well for the store.

"Insted of moaning and groaning make a difference, shut up or move!"

I like that .... four choices

1. moan and groan

2. make a difference

3. shut up

4. move ....

to review each one ...

1. Many on here moan and groan .... but do not seem to do much else based on the posts they make

2. Several I know on here are at least rying to make a difference, and from my point of view most of those are in one way or another ....

3. The ones who are shutting up ... well .. we don't know who they are or what they think because that is basiclly what they have done, shut up ... on here at least....

4. ditto ... we know that people have moved .... but we don't know if any of them are on here .... in fact, there may be some on here who have moved and now are moaning and goaning ...

:-) ... sort of like absentee landlords downtown ....

an afterthought ... I don't think Ben would like to promote the shutting up option ....

;-)

Ruins ... the board shop on third near Victorai move downtown from Parkwood some three years ago. They got their windows broken at least three times in the first few weeks. They have learned to adjust and are still there.

Anyone who has a "destination" store can likely survive downtown. We need more stores like that to make a difference.

I do bitch about the fact that there is little help from the City. "Beutification" is not a panacea. Much more needs to be done to help them out.

The other thing I bitch about is that the BIA seems to have gone into a state of hibernation. They have a new manager but hear nothing from her or from the organization. She has been there long enough now to have come up with a plan to promote the downtown.

Here is their web site �. Older and deader than my great grandmother.

http://downtownpg.com
Laurie Kerr - Executive Director
Phone: 250-614-1330
Give her a call and find out what she is doing and how you could help

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression even for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-Noam Chomsky

sounds like litle kids to me.. I have a t-shirt that says it all: "quit bitching and start a revolution."

Jeeez--all over a new store? At least it's not another gambling joint for mr Majors.

"start a revolution"

This is as close to a revolution you will get these days ....
;-)

Actually perhaps that is why it was suggested to move to Iran. They had a more or less recent one so one can learn how to do it, especially since it was effective.

The USA had their more than 200 years ago, so not many there that would be of much help.

Closest we came to it in Canada is the Winnipeg riots.

;-)

Interesting observation about revolutions, etc, and this definetly off topic but......

In trying to check Owl`s history, I couldn`t think of anything that would match the dirty thirty riots on the train trip to Ottawa, but on a more regional basis, would not the medical meeting we had at CN centre some years ago not be a defining moment in Central Interior area history???????

Just asking???

Taking the meaning of revolution as a sudden or momentous change in a situation, the medical meeting would not qualify from my point of view.

The reason I would not include it is because I do not have all the information about it. Based on what I know, I would not include it.

Getting a medical school here, for instance, appeared to be the outcome. However, while it may have helped, I think we would have gotten it anyway. It had been obvious to the government that the province had a doctor recruitment problem, which showed up primarily in the areas outside the lower mainland. One of the reasons was that BC had only one medical school that was producing less graduates per population than any other province in Canada. We were not pulling our weight in educating for our own needs. Alberta has two. Saskatchewan has one. Manitoba has one. In effect, there are three schools for the same population as BC (combine Alberta with one of the other tow provinces)

Ontario had been working on the problem of how to get doctors come to and stay in remote communities as well. They announced a northern medical school creation solution at least a year before BC. Theirs was different from two points of view � they created a new medical faculty and they built in a remote clinical program from the start.

So, BC followed suit and they created remote campuses for an existing faculty, doubled the seats for total intake including seats at UBC itself, Victoria (UVic), Prince George (UNBC), and Kelowna (UBC-Okanagan).

I do not think that the medical meeting caused that event to happen. It was happening anyway.

Do we still have a recruitment and retention problem? Yes! Will this solve the problem? We do not know yet. Likely it will have a positive effect. It will help solve the problem. But a whole number of other things have to be in place and I am not too sure that is happening.

Off topic, and yet on topic. I lived in Prince Rupert prior to moving back here and the Homework store there is very cool. Trendy, not terribly priced, very cool all in all. Good luck David

Can't wait to visit the new store and have a look.

.. the DBIA have a new manager and she has been there long enough now to have come up with a plan to promote the downtown..

I hired two street people and moved them out of downtown. No one even noticed two were missing. They go downtown for a good free living, and it's easy to get hooked on downtown and stay there.