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Mystery of the Missing First Edition
Neil GODBOUT Managing editor
The Prince Citizen is celebrating its own centennial in 2016 but we’re not waiting to start the fun.
Through 2015, the city’s centennial year, and 2016, the Citizen’s centennial year, we’ll be telling many stories about the city’s history, the Citizen’s history and the individuals who made up both.
But first, we need your help.
The problem is The Citizen’s exact birthday has been lost in the sands of time because there is currently no saved copy of the first edition of The Citizen in existence. It is believed to have been published on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1916, but
we honestly don’t know for sure. That’s where you come in, dear reader. We’d like you to solve The Mystery of the Missing First Edition.
We are hoping there is a fully-intact copy of The Citizen’s first edition somewhere, stored in the bottom of a trunk in someone’s attic or inside a scrapbook.
To the person who can bring in that first edition, so it can be historically preserved and made available online for researchers and history buffs, we offer in return a free lifetime subscription to this newspaper, a bundle of other goodies and a front-page story about you and how you solved The Mystery of the Missing First Edition.
- see CITIZEN CENTENNIAL, page 3
UNBC, faculty agree to binding arbitration
Citizen staff
A third party will settle the score between UNBC and its faculty after a mediator’s recommendation that the two sides head to binding arbitration.
The move comes as the latest step in an ongoing labour dispute at the post-secondary institution that culminated in a two-week shutdown of the school when faculty walked off the job March 5.
The two sides spent one day in mediation with the Labour Relations Board’s Trevor Sones, who recommended the arbitration step.
“The UNBC-FA respects the Section 55 process and has accepted the recommendations made by mediator Sones,” said faculty association president Jacqueline Holler in an email.
“Our members are happy to be back at work and are very busy with end-of-term responsibilities, so the focus now shifts from member’s action (in the strike) to the adjudicative process that awaits us.”
Rob van Adrichem, UNBC’s vice president of external relations, said throughout the process the university has been working to have a local, negotiated settlement.
“That said, we are very respectful of this process and the outcome that has been conveyed to us,” said van Adrichem by email.
About three quarters of UNBC’s budget is tied up in salary-related costs.
At its April meeting, the university’s board of governors delayed approval of its 201516 operating budget until May.
□ An arbitrator is fully empowered to deal with UNBC's salary structure as she/he sees fit, and we look forward to making our arguments before this neutral third party.
— Jacqueline Holler, UNBC Faculty Association
“We’re anxious to have agreements with both CUPE (support staff) and the faculty association in order to bring added clarity to this significant annual expense,” van Adrichem said.
Whether that will include a re-mapping of the salary structure, as the faculty has demanded, will be up to the arbitrator, Holler said.
“An arbitrator is fully empowered to deal with UNBC’s salary structure as she/he sees fit, and we look forward to making our arguments before this neutral third party,” she said.
UNBC and the UNBC Faculty Association have 20 days to agree on an arbitrator.
The Labour Relations Board will appoint someone if they don’t come to an agreement in that timeframe.
Curtain coming for conductor
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
The Prince George Symphony Orchestra has severed ties with its conductor, Kevin Zakresky.
The PGSO announced Wednesday that when the maestro’s contract is up at the end of this season, he would not be rehired.
Zakresky, who was born and raised in Prince George, went to UBC and Yale on his way to a doctoral degree, and was hired by his hometown orchestra to great fanfare.
His public acclaim, the strength of ticket sales, and the open appreciation of the musicians in the ensuing years indicated there was substance to the hype.
The written statement issued by the PGSO board did not specify precise reasons but did suggest financial difficulties were at play.
“Despite excellent patron support, sponsorships, and public funding, the PGSO’s continued financial challenges led board members to initiate a new strategic plan,” wrote chairperson Teresa Saunders.
“It highlights a vision to replace the artistic emphasis on imported musicians with a focus on our own local talent. But change, however positive, does not come without cost - the most significant of which is the departure of music director Dr. Kevin
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The orchestra has traditionally relied on a professional core of local musicians augmented by professionals flown in from other locations to round out the on-stage needs of each concert.
Zakresky lived in the Lower Mainland where he also works at other jobs in the orchestral and choral music field.
— see ‘I WANTED TO CARRY ON’, page 3
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