Tune into Episode #2 of Let's Talk Europe! Let's Talk Europe features previous voice recordings of a trip to Europe!
Trundled Interview - 20260708
Tune into this interview with the duo Trundled to hear more about their future plans, the duo's dynamic and their upcoming show at Deadfall Brewing on July 11th!!
Northern Static Series - Dawn Boudreau S2 Ep6
Episode #6 of the Northern Static Series - Season 2 with Dawn Boudreau
For this special episode of the Northern Static Series, we sat down and chatted with Dawn Boudreau who has been a pillar of our music scene in Prince George. Tune in to learn more about Dawn’s early beginnings as a musician, her journey as a performer and recording artist, her career as a music teacher, and more!
Support Dawn Boudreau’s music here:
Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EM3ZvskteRaDAxxWSAsWL?si=r2BPM7bERv-LBPCg-JPQ-w
Catch new episodes of the Northern Static Series on CFUR 88.7FM every Wednesday at 7pm, re-broadcasted on Sundays at 10am. All episodes will be posted on our website, mixcloud, youtube, and can be found on podcast platforms “Northern Static Series”!
Produced, interviewed, recorded, and edited by Genevieve Tucker in CFUR Studios
Audio mixed and mastered by Connor Pritchard
This initiative is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada
Northern BC writers prepare for inaugural, month-long, festival - July 1st, 2026
The inaugural Northern BC Writers Festival launches Thursday July 2nd and runs until the end of the month at various Prince George–Lheidli T’enneh venues. CFURadio spoke with the association’s President Amber Ingham about the excitement of drawing authors together into a stronger community of creatives. Photo Credit - Amber Ingham
July 1, 2026
Kicking off July 2nd, writers of Northern BC will emerge from their ink wells and gather through the month of July in Prince George–Lheidli T’enneh for the Northern BC Writers Festival across many venues & events. Northern BC Writers Association (NBCWA) President, Amber Ingham is excited to bring together local creatives to network, promote northern literature, and strengthen community. Among a number of goals, Ingham stated the event aims to, “connect with writers across genres and across disciplines, but also give you a chance to connect with writers that are within the same ones.”
The festival offers four streams of affordable events for participants to explore: presentations, mixers, workshops, and writing salons. Challenging the idea that a writer must toil in solitude with a tiny lamp, Ingham declares, “Writing is community.” Emphasizing the importance of people further, the festival’s presenters have signed an AI Policy to ensure that content shared at the festival is human generated.
With published works coming out of the community for decades, and Ingham having hosted a writing club locally for about 10 years, events like this have been few and far between. To get this one off the ground, it took a couple years of networking between Ingham, local author Devon Flynn, then Raegan Cote to express their common desire for a festival, acknowledge they couldn’t do it on their own, then finally, “now we had enough people, to convince other people, to join the writing conference.” Seven total founding members now have their pencil tips sharpened as they invite creatives across the region to get writing and bring more Northern BC perspectives to readers everywhere with the motto, “Write the North.”
- Ian Gregg, CFURadio 88.7FM, Due North News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A Hiatus for the Little Prince – Part 2: End of the Line? - July 1st, 2026
While the Little Prince has been the cute cherry-on-top of Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park for decades, the investment it requires to extend its timeline brings gravity to its whimsical ambience as its hiatus sheds light on the historical role the locomotive played in developing the community as we know it.. CFURadio looks at whether the sister miniature rail operation at the Central BC Railway & Forestry Museum can capture stranded passengers, and seeks to understand what the big obstacles are for the Little Prince in the meantime. Photo Credit - Ian Gregg
July 1, 2026
While many local park goers have noted the small steam powered locomotive at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park known as The Little Prince, not as many are familiar with the complexity of its current existence: maintaining a 100+ year old high pressure iron steam engine, navigating municipal ownership, non-profit operation, provincial oversight, and archaeological processes required ahead of any serious track repairs to name a few.
It may appear to be a fun novelty, but as a licensed Canadian railway engine that needs to meet national standards, time has not been kind to the machine and the track it rolls on. The steel rail road in the park may appear to be stationary, and good luck to anyone trying to move it, but after 50 years of expansion and contraction it has moved an inch too far, leaving Chief Engineer Sean Allen to slow the boil, while Executive Director of the Exploration Place Museum & Science Centre, Alissa Leier advocates for investment and coordinates the archaeological, construction, and compliance requirements required to get the Little Prince rolling into the future.
In the meantime two other, smaller-scale miniature locomotives, operate on electricity at the Central BC Railway & Forestry Museum, along with two other gasoline driven engines. CFURadio asks that museum’s team if it is their day to shine, as the Little Prince hides in the shade of the dilapidated culvert that serves as its storage shed.
Ian Gregg, CFURadio 88.7FM, Due North News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Expansion joints, pictured here, offer relief from contraction & swelling of the rail track in the cold & heat it is subjected to. These features have limitations though, and over time expansion and contraction can split the wooden railroad ties apart.
One might think a train track would be stationary, but natural forces have pushed the track around laterally over time. The heel of a boot can fit into a gap recently created by such forces.
A Hiatus for the Little Prince – Part 1: A Moving Story - July 1st, 2026
The Little Prince has been the cute cherry-on-top of Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park for decades, but its historical value brings more to the table than meets the eye. With operational costs looming, and repairs causing a hiatus of its typical summer schedule, CFURadio dives into what makes this little engine special, beyond its endearing size. Photo Credit - Exploration Place Museum & Science Centre
While many local park goers have noted the small steam powered locomotive at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park known as The Little Prince, not as many are familiar with its hundred year past, and involvement building the full size rail infrastructure across BC’s north. Fewer still have considered the complexity of its current existence: navigating municipal ownership, non-profit operation, provincial oversight, and archaeological processes required ahead of any currently required track repairs to name a few. While the Fort George Railway must take a break to lay new track, we examine the hyper-local tourist transportation economy.
In Part One of this program, CFURadio explores the Little Prince’s big role in local railway history, with Executive Direct Alissa Leier of the Exploration Place Museum & Science Centre, which oversees the locomotive on behalf of the City of Prince George. We also got into the nuts and bolts, with Fort George Railway’s Chief Engineer Sean Allen who operates the Little Prince, on the unlikely steps that prevented the mighty machine from getting scrapped alongside another five identical miniature counterparts into a historical dump.
Ian Gregg, CFURadio 88.7FM, Due North News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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20260702 - Let's Talk Europe - Episode 1
Let’s Talk Music is back with a little twist! Let’s Talk Europe will be taking over for the next couple weeks. Our music director took a trip to Europe and recorded audio recordings for CFUR, tune in to a step by step journey on a solo trip to Europe!
Northern Static Series - Big Fancy S2 Ep5
We were so excited to have the man, the mystery, the legend, old-timey, western swingin’, honky-tonk, two-steppin son of a gun in CFUR Studios. Performing under the name Big Fancy, we are honoured to welcome Blake Bamford to our airwaves for this episode of the Northern Static Series!
Catch new episodes of the Northern Static Series on CFUR 88.7FM every Wednesday at 7pm, re-broadcasted on Sundays at 10am. All episodes will be posted on our website, mixcloud, youtube, and can be found on podcast platforms “Northern Static Series”!
Support Big Fancy here: https://bigfancy.bandcamp.com/album/the-legendary-loser-wins-again
Produced, recorded, interviewed and edited by Genevieve Tucker in CFUR Studios
Performance edited by Connor Pritchard
Audio mixed and mastered by Connor Pritchard
This initiative is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada
CFUR off the air for campus maintenance until 3pm today
Heads up listeners! CFURadio will go off-air by powering down our transmitter between 12pm-3pm, today:
Saturday, June 27th
This is due to campusmaintenance work, but we still love and respect you, dear audience ;)
Our STREAM though will also not be live, so sorry if you plan catch us there on your device: cfur.ca/listen-live