Autumn is here, and along with the colder weather and colourful leaves come lots of new events in Prince George!

Some examples include:

--Walk PG

Come Walk With Us!
Make friends, lose weight, have fun.
Meet in Fort George Park at the Band Shell. We'll walk around the park. How far you walk is up to you.
For more information call: 250.561.9284

Saturdays @ 10:30am

Tuesdays @ 6:30pm

Thursdays @ 1:00pm

--FREE Thursdays at Two Rivers Art Gallery

--For those hockey fans out there, the hockey season has started! Take a look at the Prince George Cougars, and the Prince George Spruce Kings season schedules.

--And don't forget...October brings a number of fall and Halloween activities around town...so keep an ear and an eye out for announcements regarding these events!

----> http://www.tourismpg.com/events_calendar.php

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.

2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.

3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.

4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.

5. Weed.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA

1. Big rock between you and BC.

2. Ottawa who?

3. Tax is 5% instead of the approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.

4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.

5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.

6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN

1. You never run out of wheat.

2. Your province is really easy to draw.

3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.

4. People will assume you live on a farm.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA

1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.

2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.

3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.

4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.

5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO

1. You live in the centre of the universe.

2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.

3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.

4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC

1. Racism is socially acceptable.

2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.

3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.

4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!"

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.

2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.

3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.

4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA

1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.

2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.

3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge.

2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.

3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.

4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."

5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.

6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND

1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.

2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.

3. The workday is about two hours long.

4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.

Kind of made me laugh...

Inner Peace: This is so true

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment ,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

Have a great day :)

Spring has (finally!) sprung in PG...at least we hope it has! Guess I should be careful what I say...the snow isn't totally gone yet. Anyway, its nice to see some sun around here, and this also means that outdoor events are going to start happening! What are some dates to keep in mind?

May 8-10 -- Canadian Cancer Society Relay for the Cure at Masich Place Stadium

May 31 -- Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Walk at Fort George Park

June 6,7 -- The YMCA Healthy Kids Day at Masich Place System

June 7 -- MS Society Awareness Walk at Fort George Park

June 14 -- Artists in the Park at Fort George Park Bandshell

July 1 -- Canada Day Celebration at Fort George Park

July 10,11 -- Kids Art Daze at the Civic Center Plaza

Check out http://www.city.pg.bc.ca/rec_culture/parks/specialevents/ for more events...often a chance to have some fun and make a difference at the same time :) Happy Spring everybody!

I'm sure most have already read this, as it has circulated in emails for awhile...but i like it, gives you something to think about :)

'They're  standing on the corner and they can't  speak English.

I can't even talk the way these people  talk:  

Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,  
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid  until I heard the mother talk.  

And  then I heard the father talk.

Everybody  knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You  can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your  mouth.

In  fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.  

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an  Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.  

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in  this deal.

These  people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.  

$500 sneakers for what?

And they won't spend $200  for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who  cry when their son is standing there in an orange  suit.  

Where  were you when he was 2?

Where were you when he was 12?  

Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know  that he had a pistol?

And where is the father? Or who is his  father?  

People  putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of  something gone wrong?  

People  with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that  a sign of something?

Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull  his pants up?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her  dress   all  the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her  body?

What  part of Africa did this come from??

We are not  Africans. Those  people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa  .

I  say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they  are European-American. That  is totally stupid.

I  was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very  likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa,  no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England ,  Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all  the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! !  !

With  names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap  .... and  all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of  Education is no longer the white person's  problem.  

We  have got to take the neighborhood back.  

People  used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight  different 'husbands' -- or  men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire  football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar  basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black  folks have to do a better job.

Someone working at Wal-Mart  with seven kids, you are hurting us.  

We  have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the  white people any longer.'  

--Dr. William  Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.  

Fabulous location in cul-de-sac adjoining St Mathew Park - view lot - private gorgeous  backyard - updates include brand new roof, windows, furnace, hotwater tank, lighting, paint, insulation - walk out basement - covered sundeck with access from living room and master bedroom - 5 bedrooms, 3 baths - great home in a great neighbour

3 When people say 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too'. What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4 When people say 'it's always the last place you look'. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? 

5 When people say while watching a film 'did you see that?'. No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor.

6 People who ask 'Can I ask you a question?'..... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8 When people say 'life is short'. Life is the longest  thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks 'Has the bus come yet?'. If the bus came would I be standing here, moron?

10 When people say 'I slept like a baby'. Well if you slept like a baby does that mean you were waking up every couple of hours like babies do?

~Author Unknown

There is a very, very tall coconut tree and there are 4 animals

a Lion

a Chimpanzee

a Giraffe

and a Squirrel

who pass by.

They decide to compete to see who is the fastest to get a banana off the tree.

Who do you guess will win?

Your answer will reflect your personality. So think carefully . .. Try and answer within 30 seconds Got your answer?

Now scroll down to see the analysis.

If your answer is:

Lion = you're dull.

Chimpanzee = you're a moron.

Giraffe = you're a complete idiot.

Squirrel = you're just hopelessly stupid.

A COCONUT TREE DOESN'T HAVE BANANAS. Obviously you're stressed and overworked. You should take some time off and relax! Try again next year.

This is too funny...and so true, we ARE too stressed.