The Daily News expands on the local news angle with an interesting twist, by featuring not one but two stories about former Rupertites on the front page of the Tuesday paper.
When not recounting the adventures of the exiled, the paper also featured a review of the Chamber of Commerce’s weekend celebrations at the Chances convention centre as well as the awards night success of the Prince Rupert Skating Club.
REAL LIFE DRAMA PLAYS OUT FOR FORMER RUPERTITE-- Tuesday’s front page headline story sounds like it was ripped from the script writer’s hands at Law and Order, the Daily recounting the real life adventure of former resident James Bourgeois who played good Samaritan in a rather frightening situation in Nanaimo. With tales of a pistol flashing in the morning light and a getaway made for television, Bourgeois recounts for the Daily how he managed to help a Nanaimo woman escape the potentially evil intent of her common law husband…
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