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 WINTER WONDERLAND — Jessica Frikesen, 8, on the back, and her sister, Crystal, had a great time Sunday in the fresh snow as mom, Wanda, and dad, Willie, pulled them through the Western Acres area on their toboggan.
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   Woman wounded in drive-by shooting
    Victim not helping police investigation
             Citizen staff
    Police say they’re getting little cooperation from the victim of a drive-by shooting that occurred in the 2200 block of Quince Street on Sunday night.
    “She’s not saying anything,” said Prince George RCMP Cpl. Jim Dibbens.
    The 18-year-old woman was hit in the leg by a shot from a high-powered rifle that broke the front window and penetrated three interior walls.
    It was one of six directed at the house.
    Police believe that the incident amounts to a warning and that it may be connected with a drug-related dispute.
    But Dibbens said neither the victim nor the home’s residents, who neighbours say moved in recently, are giv-. ing Prince George police any information.
    He added that the shooting victim was about to get into a taxi cab and leave when police arrived at the scene.
   ; Police are on the lookout for a black or dark-gray Jimmy or Bronco truck in connection with the shooting incident which occurred at about 9:30 p.m.
    The home is located in the city’s VLA neighbourhood, but neighbours said things have been relatively quiet ever since there was a crackdown on prostitution in the vicinity a few months ago.
    Neighbours seemed not to know —what happened until word got out.
    “I heard it last night,” said one neighbour who asked that his name not be revealed.
    “Just three quick shots and that was about it. It sounded like a gun but I didn’t know for sure.”
    Another neighbour said she thought it was a group of kids playing street hockey until she heard the news.
    “We’ve never had a drive-by shooting before," she said.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2002
UNBC eightlf
in latest poll
               Students, class sizes boost Maclean’s ranking
                                                                                          By MARK NIELSEN Citizen staff
  Smarter first-year students and relatively small class sizes are being credited for the University of Northern British Columbia’s eighth-place ranking among Canada’s 21 small universities in the annual survey by Maclean’s magazine.
  UNBC spokesperson Rob van Adrichem said Monday that two factors played a major role in the school’s ranking.
  The average entering grade for first year students is just over 80 per cent compared to 79 per cent last year.
  Meanwhile, the percentage of classes with no more than 25 students stands at about 60 per cent at the first year level and 70 per cent for the third and fourth years.
  “Those are two pretty important weights for Maclean’s, because they want to see what the quality of students coming in is, and they want to measure what the educational experience or the classroom experience is for those students,” van Adrichem said.
  UNBC was 14th in the national rankings last year, the only year that the school did not place in the top 10 in the five years it’s been included in the survey.
  But van Adrichem said last year’s poor showing was an anomaly caused by a surge of professors taking a sabbatical after seven years at the university.
  “Just due to the nature of when UNBC opened and when we did our first big hiring of faculty, a lot of those people came up for sabbatical at roughly the same time,” he said.
                                                                                   “So it was a challenge to fill a lot of
those spots with faculty to teach those courses, and that affected our ranking in a number of categories,” he added.                           ‘                          *
  UNBC’s rating comes in the primarily undergraduate or small universi* ties category. St. Francis Xavier is ranked first, Mount Allison is second and Acadia University is third in that category.                           >
  Although the rankings may be important to readers, van Adrichem said the survey also helps generate* feel for the trends at UNBC.
  “You do a lot of these statistics atQt way, but it gives the university-} chance to get a good idea of what if*
    doing and where i*}
making improvj* ment,” he said. -J Besides movement* to higher-quality stt£ dents and more smaM classes, van Adrichetfc noted that there axe now more than million worth of schoh arships and bursari*$ available at UNBC, up from $732,000 lag
                                                        “It gives the university a chance to get a good idea of what it’s doing and where It’s making improvement.”
                                                                                                    —Rob VGlt Adrichem year, and that the
                get for electronic brary acquisitions has doubled everj year since 1999.
   The Northern Medical Progran£ scheduled to start in 2004, may have an influence on future rankings, but because no other small university h&s a medical program, van Adrichei$ said it may not be taken into consldr eration.
   As for B.C.’s other universities, the University of British Columbia is fifth in the medical-doctoral or larger university category while Simon Fraser University is third and University of Victoria is fourth amongst the conr-prehensive or medium-sized universities.
   The rankings are in the Nov. 11 Maclean’s magazine.
Parents Arvld and Christine Loveng had the first dance when Momentum took the stage Sunday at the Prince George Hotel during the benefit dance -and auction for their daughter Pamela’s heart transplant.
  “I don’t think it could have been better,” said her mother, Christine. “It was pretty amazing.”
  The Lovengs gave plenty of credit to neighbour Tamara deBalinhaid for the event’s success and for
 Benefit event raises more than $10,000 for girl’s transplant
                                                                                                By MARK NIELSEN Citizen staff
  A benefit dance and auction to help cover costs related to a heart transplant for 10-year-old Pamela Loveng raised over $10,000 and exceeded expectations in the process according to organizers.
  “It way surpassed any of the most optimistic projections of what we thought we could raise, so it was just absolutely fantastic and it surprised us all,” said Prince George Hotel Road House Cabaret owner Ted Coole.
  In all, $10,537.25 was raised through the event, held Sunday night at the hotel, through donations, an auction and raffles. Major donations include $1,000 from the carpenters union, $500 from Monkey Forest, most of that generated through the business’s wishing pond, and $500 from CEDA, a local contracting business.
  Another $3,571 was raised via an auction under the auspices of auctioneer Jack Ross and the rest was raised through the 300 tickets sold, smaller donations including $1 from the hotel for every drink sold that night, raffles, and tips from the waiters.
  The night also featured music from three bands, Momentum, Lo Man Louie and Sidewinder.
  A shy Pamela was reluctant to talk to the media, but the outcome left both of Loveng’s parents, Arvid and Christine, overwhelmed.
setting up a trust fund to help pay the bills for a trip to Toronto where the operation will take place.
   They added that they had no idea it was being organized until they had returned from a trip to Disney World in Florida, provided by Make-A-Wish Foundation.
   It took deBalinhard about two weeks to get the donations for the auction. She added that 600 tickets were actually sold, but half were in the form of donations with the purchasers having no intention of going.
   “We were only allowed 300 seats but people wanted to donate, so they’d buy the ticket and donated the $5 and say they weren’t showing up,” deBalinhard said. “That’s why we had to print more tickets.”
   Pamela suffers from a complex congenital heart defect and has already undergone three heart surgeries, the first a bypass operation when she was one-day-old.
   Her health has been stable for the last seven years, but in August the doctor told the family that Pamelk needed a heart transplant.
   She’ll be sent to the Hospital for Sick Children ia Toronto where she could wait for up to a year for a donor organ and surgery plus an additional three months of monitoring following the operation, family plans to stay with her in Toronto until she j a new heart.
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