Opinion

After two weeks off to recharge the ol’ batteries, it’s good to be back in the editor’s chair in the town I call home.

During the past two weeks I was able to go to just about every school in town and got tours where I saw excited students learning and great teachers teaching. I think we have some great schools in our little community.

In the British Columbia tourism industry we operate under a three-tier system. The provincial agency, Tourism BC, now under the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, bears overall responsibility for promoting British Columbia. The province is divided into six tourism regions. Ours is the Northern BC Tourism Association (NBCTA), responsible for representing over 50% of the province’s landmass.

Hi everybody, Shaun’s away on a much need vacation to parts unknown for the next couple weeks so I’ll be taking over the editorials until either his wanderlust or vacation days run out.