Community

The Grade One class at Annunciation School spearheaded a school wide Japan Relief Project last month. Students in the school made hundreds of paper cranes that were given to people in the school, parish and in the community who made a donation to Japan. $1,782.67 was raised over their month long relief efforts.

The fourth annual Smoltfest drew a large turnout of kids and their families to the Oldfield Fish Hatchery in Prince Rupert on Saturday.

Since the Relay for Life’s Canadian debut in 1999, it has become the biggest fundraising event for cancer care and research in the country.

Children 12 and under are being invited to learn more about the safe operation of bicycles this Saturday as the Prince Rupert RCMP auxiliary host the second annual bike rodeo in the upper parking lot of the Rupert Square Mall from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

PRSS students Austin Beynon and Samantha Reeves (centre), along with vice-principal Kevin Leech (second from right) presented a cheque for $250 to Rick McChesney of the North Coast Health Improvement Society (fourth from right) and hospital and emergency staff.

The Village of Masset celebrated its 50-year anniversary during the Harbour Days festival that took place in the community over the weekend.

Residents of Masset are preparing for the annual Harbour Days Celebration, held every Victoria Day long weekend, and this year’s festivities include a full schedule of events designed to help mark Masset’s 50th anniversary.

People around Tim Horton’s saw this car precariously resting on the edge of the divider between Tim Horton’s and the mall on Thursday. Nobody was injured in the incident.

The Prince Rupert crew of the Point Henry (l-r) Chief Engineer Bruce Docherty, Mate/Medic Devin Ciccone, Seamn/Medic Ron Meadows, Seaman Bob Day, and Commanding Officer Al Lynden gather one last time as a group. The boat is set for retirement in the next few months and Chief Engineer Bruce Docherty is going into retirement before then

For the past four years the Oldfield Creek Fish Hatchery in Prince Rupert has held Smoltfest, an event where members of the community are invited to the hatchery to partake in the release of thousands of Smolt Salmon and other enjoyable activities.