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Premier Christy Clark took her seat in the B.C. legislature Monday, to square off with the NDP opposition for the first time since being selected as leader of the B.C. Liberal Party.

At its May 30 Annual General Meeting, the Prince Rupert Port Authority donated more than $475,000 to community groups as a result of a near-quadrupling of the Port Authority’s Community Investment Fund.

This year’s Relay for Life took place at the on the track at Charles Hayes Secondary School last Saturday and while the total amount raised was unavailable as of press time, it was more than $55,000.

Representatives of the Central Interior Hockey League voted to accept applications from the Quesnel Kangaroos and the Lac La Hache Tomahawks to join the league for the 2011-12 season, and created three divisions for the new season's schedule.

This summer thousands of paper salmon, created by children from Northwestern B.C., will be on display in Prince Rupert.

The federal NDP announced their new shadow cabinet positions this morning, and while most of the party’s veteran MPs received positions as ministry critics, one MP was curiously missing from the list of appointments: the MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley, Nathan Cullen.

Maher Terminals general manager Mark Schepp was the guest of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce at their monthly luncheon on May 25, and spoke to the successes Fairview Terminal has seen since it began operations in 2007.