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Do you feel safe coming downtown? with a friend or my husband and I would prefer to have my husband with me.” Jru Hjelmeland, with son Isaac, three years old “We’re fine coming downtown during the day in the more populated areas and even considering that we’re from Vancouver, like I grew up in East Van, and I’ve got two other little guys at home, I don’t feel comfortable bringing them out at night and I won’t go past a certain street with them not in the car,” Hjelmeland said. “But at the same time if we have extra food sometimes we will go in the car and we’ve brought it to St. Vincent to sort of let them know that those people on the street are not to be made fun of or be scared of.”
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The Citizen asked patrons of the two Farmers’ Markets on Third Avenue in downtown Prince George Saturday morning if they felt safe coming into the core of the city with so many issues around social problems and public safety. Harriett and Rusty Watson “We come down every Friday night to the Legion for the meat draw and it’s not as comfortable outside as it used to be,” Rusty said. “The panhandlers seem a little more aggressive. We were just at Wendy’s... and there was a man trying the door handles on the classic cars.” “During the day I’ll come downtown with Rusty,” Harriett said. “I will come
See ‘I’M A BIG GUY SO I’M OK,’ page 4
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COSTUME FUN Northern Fancon hosted their Cosplay Contest on Saturday evening on the main stage at CN Centre.
Cockroach problem ‘has exploded,’ pest expert says See ‘SEE THEM SCURRY AWAY,’ page 4
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them out of their natural habitat they have a low survival rate,” Mike Jaenicke of Central Interior Pest Control said, a man who has been in the pest control business for 35 years.
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You might have heard the make-yourskin-crawl rumours of a local restaurant infested with cockroaches.
luggage, or in cargo shipped here. “Most pests from Timbuktu that get imported to Canada – let’s say in a container on a ship – they die off because it’s not the right humidity, they don’t have the right food source, so once you take
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What? There’s no cockroaches here, are there? Absolutely yes, there are cockroaches in Prince George. They are a carry-in pest so that means they come in from other parts of the world on people’s clothes, in their
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