Sunday, January 15, 2017

Blog Watching: Week ending January 15, 2017


Pita's and Pucks dominated our news flow for the week, with readers heading for our stories on the opening of the city's newest food option and the community's quest to become the next Hockeyville.

Not far off the pace on the week was some significant interest in the travels of the Charles Hays Senior Boy's Rainmakers and their trip to the Pitt Meadows Air Show this week.

Our notes on the latest court challenge for the proposed LNG terminal at Lelu Island also attracted a large audience, with readers looking to learn more about the court filing in Vancouver by members of the Gitxsan who oppose Pacific NorthWest LNG's site selection.

Civic politics also cracked the top five this week, as Councillor Cunningham's concerns to Council about the icy state of many of the city's sidewalks appears to have resonated with readers.

However, the top story by far was the debut of the new Pita Pit location, which judging by our readership level on the week was a much anticipated event.

Prince Rupert's Pita Pit Celebrates Grand Opening Today -- Prince Rupert it appears loves their Pita's, not only were they packing into the newly opened restaurant on 2nd Avenue for the Thursday grand opening, but they devoured our notes on the Grand Opening, making it the most read story of the week by a significant margin. (posted January 12, 2017)

That article was followed by:

Prince Rupert joins the competition with Two Kraft Hockeyville submissions to date  -- It started small and has become a civic cause through the week, Prince Rupert officially has Hockeyville fever. With the community continuing to submit nominations in the national contest. Such has been the interest that our follow up item later in the week, as well as our Hockeyville Archive have both also found a large number of readers exploring our notes through the week.  (posted January 10, 2017)

Rainmaker Boys ready for lift off at Pitt Meadows Tourney -- The push towards March continued this week for the Charles Hays Rainmakers, as the Senior Boys headed to Pitt Meadows and the Pitt Meadows Air Show tournament, claiming victory in Saturday night's final. Earlier in the week, readers checked out our preview of the southern journey   (posted January 12, 2017)

Pacific NorthWest LNG faces new legal challenge, as members of Gitxsan Nation launch legal proceedings --  A fourth legal challenge towards the proposed LNG terminal at Lelu Island was introduced at the British Columbia Supreme Court this week. (posted January 10, 2017)

City's icy sidewalks still a concern for Councillor Cunningham --  Mother Nature has since solved the problem, but earlier this week City Councillor Barry Cunningham was asking questions at Monday's Council session about some of the many dangerous areas still to be attended to in the city  (posted January 11, 2017)

For a look at the top twelve items from our Blog Watching feature through 2016 see our list published on New Year's Eve here.

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