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Thursday, March 11, 2021
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PRINCEGEORGECITIZEN
MOVIE PROJECT ROLLING
TED CLARKE
As a filmmaker, James Douglas has learned to expect the unexpected.
CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE/LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE.
STRING BEANS The Prince George Symphony Orchestra performed String Beans!, a kinderconcert livestream
on Sunday afternoon at Studio D.
New lungs bring second chance TED CLARKE
When Gail Rhodes got the call that a suitable donor had been found to give her a lung transplant, she was asked how long it would take for her
to get to Prince George Airport.
Considering she can almost see the runway from her house, she told them it wouldn’t be long. She was there 20 minutes later to board
a plane for Edmonton. Seven and half hours later, she was on the operating table to begin a five-hour surgery. See BEING on page 4
Like that freak winter thunderstorm that wreaked havoc on his film set Friday afternoon at the pavilion of Lhedli T’enneh Memorial Park, bringing hail and strong wind gusts that threatened to blow the holiday trimmings for his Christmas-themed movie into oblivion. It took a team effort from the cast and crew to shield from the wind and hang onto the decorations that took hours to set up, preventing what could have been a disaster. The hour-long storm delay and cleanup involved afterward turned an all-day shoot into an all-nighter but Douglas was able to get the scenes he was after as the director of A Great North Christmas. The park pavilion was turned into a Christmas grotto, decked out in the homemade handiwork by local artisans, stuffed animals from the Great White toy store and the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation’s Festival of Trees decorations, some of which were used to dress up the park’s playground fire engine for another scene. Despite the heavy snowfall two weekends ago, there were parts of the park which needed more and the city responded by hauling in a couple of dump truck loads of pristine snow from Connaught Hill Park. See IT’S GOING on page 6