Hello Families!    Participate this spring in a FREE family program!  Generation Health Community is a FREE 10-week program for families with children 8-12 years old (siblings of all ages are welcome to join). Each weekly session includes fun games, family challenges, and group lessons. Topics include fun forms of physical activity, positive mental health, sleep hygiene, cooking with kids, reading food labels, and basic nutrition information. Families who have good participation and regular attendance will receive a recreation credit gift card to use for physical activity (i.e. sport registration fees, pool pass, sporting equipment for their children, etc.)   Generation Health Community is free to attend, thanks to the funding provided by the B.C. Ministry of Health. Weekly sessions are on Mondays from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm from April 7-June 23, 2025. This session will be in-person in Prince George.   To register, you can either scan the QR code in the poster or visit https://generationhealth.ca/community/

Thursday March 6th, Sport BC held an awards ceremony celebrating women in sport. Aurora Wolves founder and club president, Katie Gordon took the stage to accept the BC Women in Sport In Her Footsteps award for efforts to grow the sport of rugby in northern BC. Katie is no stranger to trailblazing as the first woman firefighter to be hired at the Prince George Fire Department in 2015. To start her speech, she spoke of how girls' who have played in the Aurora Wolves' pathways have been selected to play university rugby and how that was a much harder path for northern athletes in the past. She thanked mentors who supported her efforts when she competed on the national stage in judo years ago and the lasting impact it had on her life. The Aurora Wolves have come a long way since it was an idea in 2023, to athletes hitting the field in 2024 and now it is a pathway for over 100 athletes in northern BC in 2025. Katie has been at the forefront of a resurgence in youth and women's rugby in the north when she helped bring back women's rugby to Prince George and co-founded 1697s Rugby Club which is one of the leaders in northern BC for youth rugby development with programs that run year round. Congratulations Katie Gordon!

At an event that celebrated 30 years of service from Engage Sport North, local volunteers were recognized for their dedication to sport. 1697s Rugby Club co-founder and Aurora Wolves Rugby Union president, Katie Gordon received a Community Sport Hero Award for her efforts to promote and grow the sport of rugby in Northern BC. In 2019, Ms Gordon founded the 1697s Rugby Club alongside her husband; since then she has been a driving force in creating opportunities and pathways for athletes from across the North.