Ken Pendergast When Ken Pendergast moved to Prince George in 1965 from his home in the Kootenays, the pulp mills were just being built. Work was easy to find for a young man recently released from the Royal Canadian Air Force. He started out driving a logging truck and concrete hauling, then some construction work on the pulp mills and a few different jobs until he started working with the BC Forest Service in 1967. The job with the BC Forest Service turned into a career, progressing through positions in Prince George, out at Summit Lake and west to Terrace to work as a deputy ranger for three and a half years. A promotion to operations manager took him to Fort St. John in 1981. In 1983, he took on the position of district manager. In 1991, he returned to Prince George to be their district manager. His colleagues in Fort St. John warned him: ‘if you drink from the Peace River, you will always return.’ Ken is adamant that Prince George is home now and he has no intention of returning. The people were great, but he remembers the bitterly cold winters.