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ashroom video W leads to arrest of local man On Monday November 5, the Prince George RCMP entered into a voyeurism investigation at a local business. At approximately 2 p.m., the Prince George RCMP received a report of a video camera being found in the women’s bathroom at a local retail business in downtown Prince George. An officer attended the business and seized the video camera. After review of the video and the store’s surveillance video, a suspect was identified. Officers attended a residence on Westwood Drive where a 47-year-old man was arrested and taken into custody. Members of the Prince George RCMP obtained and executed a search warrant at the residence. The accused was released on a promise to appear with conditions, to attend court in Prince George on December 5. If you have any information about this criminal offence, please contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-TIPS (8477), online at www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca (English only), or Text-A-Tip to CRIMES (274637) using keyword “pgtips”.
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Chloe Nevatie places a poppy at the cenotaph at Sunday’s Remembrance Day ceremonies
Freeman of the City, Anne Martin, dies Allan Wishart
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One of the city’s best-known community supporters passed away Saturday. Anne Martin was 80. When she received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal earlier this year, she spoke with a Free Press reporter about what accomplishments she felt she was being recognized for. When Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris read a list of her accomplishments, Martin looked over at the reporter. “I forgot half that stuff, didn’t I?” Anne and her husband, Bob, moved to Prince George in 1965. Bob was working at what was then the vocational centre, which became the College of New Cale-
donia. Ann settled into Prince George, but didn’t stay settled for long, as she started getting involved in the city right away. “I started the Child Development Centre,” she said at the time of the Jubilee Award. “I was on city council for nine years, and I was made a Freeman of the City.” In looking at the list of the groups and causes she worked with in her 47 years in the city, it’s no wonder she received the Freeman designation. A partial list would include the Board of Governors for the University of Northern B.C., president and director of the Two Rivers Gallery (then the Regional Art Gallery Association), initiating the Bridget Moran statue for downtown Prince George, chairing
the Communities in Bloom Committee (under her leadership, Prince George won the national title in 2006), a board member of the Prince George Regional Performing Arts Centre Society, and the Livable Winter Cities Association. She was also one of the driving forces behind the David Douglas Botanical Garden Society, which now graces the main drive through UNBC. Receiving one of the Diamond Jubilee medals ranked high on her list of memories. “It’s a very great honour. It wouldn’t be possible, though, without my husband and my family. “It’s a team effort.” Asked about the long list of groups and events she was involved with throughout
Anne Martin, earlier this year, receiving the Queen’s Jubilee medal from CaribooPrince George MP Dick Harris. her 47 years in the city, she smiled. “It’s just life. You have to do something with it.”
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