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Crash claims life of young rancherAndrea DeMeerSpotlight Staff

A young man from the Tulameen area was killed last Tuesday night in a single vehicle accident on Coalmont Road, just minutes from his home.

Cody Rice, 20, a ranch hand who previ-ously attended Princeton Secondary School, is being remembered by friends and family members as someone who loved outdoors and adventure.

The accident occurred around midnight on Coalmont Road just north of Otter Lake, said Barry Kennedy, RCMP sergeant.

“He was heading home, coming around a corner on a narrow stretch of road and he failed to negotiate the curve and went off the road to the right and went over the embank-ment about 80 feet. The vehicle rolled and he

was not wearing his seat belt. He was ejected from the vehicle.”

Speed and alcohol are considered to be factors in the crash, said Kennedy, adding the results of a toxicology report and vehicle mechanical inspection are still pending.

The accident was not discovered until the following day when Rice failed to show up for his job at Mullins Ranch in Tulameen.

Co-workers mounted a search of the area. They discovered Rice’s pick up truck around noon Wednesday and police were called.

Rice’s body was discovered later in the afternoon, approximately 100 feet from the vehicle.

“It seems like he was a popular guy,” said Kennedy. “It’s just such a shame.”

Grief counseling was available at PSS Thursday, after word of the tragedy spread

through social media. Principal Patrick Kaiser said the mood

throughout the school was somber, as many current students were friends with Rice.

“Cody was always upbeat, always very polite and respectful with teachers and staff. He was just a genuine, nice young man,” Kaiser.

A story about Cody’s life will be published in next week’s Spotlight.

Rice is survived by his parents Albert and Loreeka Rice, two sisters Kelsey Ranger and Marlee Rice, and a large extended family.

A funeral service will be held Saturday May 14, 1 p.m., at the family plot in Granite Creek cemetery. A celebration of life will fol-low at the Tulameen Ice Rink. Cody Rice

Fort Mac could happen here Police search river for truck

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Spotlight StaffPolice and rescue workers launched an exhaustive search

last Tuesday night for a white pick up truck that was reported to have plunged into the Similkameen River near River Road.

According to Sergeant Barry Kennedy a witness saw the truck in the water. “He saw the lights of the pick up truck, the tail lights, and the cab light was on.”

The witness threw rocks at the truck and yelled to attract attention. He then went for help.

“By the time he returned with police there was no sign of the truck,” said Kennedy.

“We called search and rescue and they looked all night up and down the river bank and could not locate the truck or locate anybody on the river or on shore.”

Wednesday police used a helicopter to search 11 kilometers of the river, but found no debris or signs of entry into the water.

“We are going under the assumption that the vehicle sank where it was last seen, but we just can’t see it.”

That area of the river is reported to be 80 feet deep in places, he said.

The search will not be resumed until water levels drop.Kennedy said there are no local reports of missing persons

or missing pick up trucks.

Spotlight StaffFor many people it was impossible

to watch fire destroy large parts of Fort McMurray last week without asking the question: could it happen here?

“Absolutely,” said Dale Kronebusch, RDOS emergency coordinator. “Princeton is actually very much like Fort McMurray when it comes to that.”

Kronebusch is meeting with Princeton councillors and municipal staff later this week to review fire pre-vention strategies and evacuation poli-cies in the wake of the Alberta disaster.

“That’s the good thing that will come out of this, that we will have these discussions,” he said.

According to Kronebusch, Princeton is similar to Fort McMurray in that it is closely surrounded by the same kinds of heavy timber or “fuel sources.”

One notable difference is that Princeton has three evacuation points, while Fort McMurray had only two, he said.

In the next few days Kronebusch

will review Princeton’s boundaries, looking for the most vulnerable spots where trees might need to be thinned or laddered to reduce the risk of rapidly spreading fire.

A similar exercise was carried out in Princeton several years ago, and trees were cut near the airport.

“We don’t want to promote fear, but we do want to promote education,” he said.

Kronebusch suggested that all resi-dents take time to make an evacuation

checklist for their homes, identifying what they would need to pack in the event of an emergency and where those items are located.

When an evacuation occurs, resi-dents are given 20 minutes to leave their properties.

“Twenty minutes isn’t a long time,” he said, recommending that important documents like birth certificates and passports be kept together in a safe place. “This is all about learning from other people’s mistakes.”

Black PressPrinceton shares some of the unique conditions that made Fort McMurray so vulnerable to fast moving fire, according to RDOS emergency coordinator Dale Kronebusch.

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Spotlight StaffSunny skies favored

the opening weekend of Princeton’s new outdoor market, and the 11 ven-dors who set up shop Saturday along Highway 3 appeared pleased with the results.

Everything from garden produce, plants, jams, farm fresh eggs, tie-dye t-shirts and used lawnmowers was on offer.

“I quite like it here, I think this is going to be a good place,” said Susan Coyne, who did a brisk business through out the morning selling fresh greens from her

garden, rhubarb, and a variety of homemade rhubarb treats.

The market, located in the parking lot of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, was held previously at the Tapton Avenue plaza and when it was announced that location was not avail-

able this year several home businesses were left without a place to sell their wares.

Coyne pointed out the new location has ample parking, a wash-room, and an open space for children to roam while their parents shop.

Vivian O’Connor

was selling unique hat fans, which she sources from a fair trade supplier in Thailand.

“It’s been not bad,” she said. “I think it’s going to get better as we go along. We need a bit more signage but it’s been a pretty good day.”

Sun shines on new outdoor market

Andrea DeMeerSusan Coyne’s homegrown produce promises to be a staple of the new outdoor market, happening Saturdays at the Upper Similkameen Indian Band property on Highway 3.

SubmittedWhile it appears Princeton’s favorite bird has flown the coop, word must have gotten out in the avian community that Rhonda Harrison’s backyard is a safe place for feathered friends. Harrison, who nursed and mothered the famous magpie Odin last year ( he had his own Facebook page) is now playing host to two new Princeton bird families. She keeps a watch over two new mag-pies, as well as this nest of Stellar Jays.

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Spotlight StaffA longtime Princeton resident who

will soon be leaving the community was honored at a recent town council meeting for her years of volunteer service.

Joan Kelly received an engraved pen, flowers and a certificate from Mayor Frank Armitage.

Kelly is a founding member of several town institutions, including the Princeton library.

“She was one of a group that went door to door in the community col-lecting books and they formed the first library,” said Armitage.

Kelly also volunteered for 22 years with the Vermilion Forks Field Naturalist Club, and was instrumental in the formation of the Swan Lake Wildlife Refuge.

She has also been extremely active in the community band, the arts coun-cil and in 2008 she received the pres-tigious BC Nature Education Award.

“In sports terms we’d call her an impact player,” said Armitage.

Kelly is relocating to Nelson with family.

After receiving her accolades she declared Princeton is “the best place in the world to live.”

Kudos for longtime volunteer

Andrea DeMeerJoan Kelly is “an impact” player, said Princeton mayor Frank Armitage.

Saturday, May 14th in theSave On Foods parking lot

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Spotlight StaffPremier Christy

Clark will visit Princeton this Friday to celebrate Mining Days.

“I’m really pleased she will be coming,” said Copper Mountain vice president of opera-tions Don Strickland. “It’s not every day you get that amount of rep-resentation.”

Strickland said Clark is expected to visit the mine site, attend a lun-cheon for industry stake holders and spend some time at afternoon festivi-ties in the town’s core.

MLAs Jackie Tegart and Linda Larson will also be attending.

Free tickets for the mine tour can be obtained at Ace Hardware, and buses will be leaving Princeton at 10:15 am.

The downtown event, from 2:30 to 5 pm includes a free barbecue, balloons, face painting and interactive mining displays.

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Come prepared to load your own trucks and trailers by hand, we won’t have a loader available to help.Bill Everitt will be on site to collect the donations and direct you to the right spot.

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Growing trees for climate change Disagreements persist

on the extent of humanity’s role in the current changes to B.C.’s climate, and our ability to influence it, as many read-ers have told me in the past week.

But almost everyone seems to agree that growing more and healthier forests is a good strategy. I would add that harvesting and building with wood preserves its captured carbon, a fact not much dis-cussed in emotional appeals against logging.

The B.C. government is finally spending some money on community fuel load removal projects this year, after an initial flurry follow-ing the Kelowna fires of 2003 faded in hard times. But the effects of decades of fire sup-pression in a fire-dependent forest system remain, as northern B.C. and Alberta are showing us again.

There is some positive news here. A Victoria-based government research team has published a study that calcu-lates B.C.’s pine beetle-dam-aged forests are regenerating more quickly than expected.

Warmer temperatures, increased precipitation and the “fertilizer effect” of more carbon dioxide in the atmo-sphere are factors.

“By 2020, the enhanced growth due to climate change and increased CO2 more than com-pensates for the carbon loss from dead, rotting trees,” said lead researcher Vivek Arora of the Canadian Centre for Modeling and Analysis.

This recovery even over-comes the projected increase in forest fire loss that comes with gradually increasing temperatures and drier peri-ods.

The federal government is still working on its plan to meet greenhouse gas reduc-tion targets agreed to in Paris last year. But the forest indus-try has stepped up with its own goal.

I spoke last week with Derek Nighbor, presi-dent of the Forest Products Association of Canada, after he announced his industry’s “30 by 30 Climate Change Challenge.”

That’s a goal to reduce the industry’s net carbon emis-sions by 30 megatonnes a year by 2030. That would be 13 per cent of the Canadian

g o v e r n m e n t emission target.

One of the main strate-gies is salvage harvesting and developing more products that use wood.

“It’s basical-ly trying to use every part of the tree,” Nighbor said. “In forest

operations right now, this is where we see a big part of the opportunity. Instead of the residual branches and whatnot just being left aside and slash-ing and burning, bring more of that out and turn it into something.”

That something might be a console in a luxury car con-structed with wood fibre, or an 18-storey wood student residence building planned for the University of B.C.

The other is improving for-est growth. Logging opera-tions have long been required to replant areas they cut, not just in B.C. but across Canada.

Another way to improve forest carbon capture is with more productive species, with genetic techniques that increase resiliency as well as wood mass.

A background paper from

the B.C. forests ministry responds to common miscon-ceptions about forest carbon, including the idea that log-ging should be stopped to maximize storage.

“Maximizing carbon stor-age in the ecosystem would make sense only if society stopped building new homes, acquiring new furniture and consuming in general,” it says.

“If the flow of forest prod-ucts stops, society will turn to other products with higher greenhouse gas footprints, e.g. plastics, metal or concrete. In addition, if harvesting stopped and we continued to suppress natural disturbances, there is increased potential for larger catastrophic disturbances in the future.”

If Canada wants to make a bigger contribution to reduc-ing greenhouse gases, forests are a good area to focus on. At 348 million hectares from the B.C. coast to Newfoundland, they represent nine per cent of the world’s forests.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. leg-islature reporter and colum-nist for Black Press. Email: t f [email protected] Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

It’s a bit mind blowing, when you think about it, how little Princeton’s rich coal mining heritage is vis-ible in the community today.

There are little things – the façade of the BC Liquor Store on Bridge Street captures images of both a coal miner and a gold prospector in faded glory. The Vermilion Fork Restaurant is tastefully decorated with large black and white photographs of mines.

But that’s pretty much it.Princeton arguably owes its very existence to the

bed of coal it sleeps on every night. In the early 1930s nearly half the men listed in the town’s directory were coal miners. Most of the rest owned or were employed in businesses that served that history.

While the area was originally settled by ranching families and Princeton was a distribution center for related activities, that culture would never have been large enough to create the place we live today.

Copper wouldn’t have done it either. Until the late 1950s Copper Mountain was a “company town” with all its needs satisfied 26 kilometers straight up.

So where’s The Coal Miner’s Café?Where are the murals that pay homage to men who

established the community performing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and their families?

Other BC mining towns take full advantage of their mining histories. Hedley, just down the road, screams it from the mountaintops, with its tours of Mascot Mine, and its fine museum dedicated to gold mining.

According to Rika Ruebsatt, president of the local archives, there was once a plan to create an interactive coal mining exhibit at the museum, one where visitors could descend into the darkness of a mineshaft in a rattling cage.

Unfortunately funding for that project fell through. There are many circular arguments carried on at

meetings and on social media about how Princeton might promote tourism, and how the community suf-fers from the lack of a solid brand.

Pundits chew over how the trails should be used and how the downtown ought to be decorated. It’s the song that has no end.

All the while we are literally sitting on a means to define and celebrate Princeton and so far few are dig-ging into it.

Perhaps coal mining isn’t sexy enough to get the entrepreneurial juices flowing. There are some local businesses that cash in to varying degrees on a gold mining theme, for example by selling placer mining kits.

It may be that the boom and bust nature of mining, and how that has impacted the town’s fortunes over the years, takes the shine off enthusiasm for our heritage.

But it is our heritage and there are opportunities to celebrate it.

Imagine a statue on the raceway beside Highway 3, or in Veterans’ Square, honoring the coal miners to whom the community owes so much.

Here’s a thought – it could be fashioned out of copper. – AD, with thanks to Rika Ruebsatt and Jon Bartlett for a stimulating conversation.

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To know Coalmont is to love Coalmont

One of the most admirable traits of successful politicians is this: they posses the ability to smile through just about any situation, no matter how uncomfortable or unpleasant.

Root canal? Well, that’s just great, thanks for coming out. It’s a pleasure having you jam needles in my mouth.

It must be a learned skill.Kathleen Wynne, premier of

Ontario, has it down pat. Three years ago she was guest speaker at a major newspaper function in Toronto.

To put it mildly, Kathleen was having a bad week. Her gov-ernment was staggering through a scandal involving the closure of two gas plants, and allegations that the Liberal party paid someone to wipe the hard drives of comput-ers that were to be handed over to investigators looking into that decision.

The day of the luncheon The

Toronto Sun front page was taken up by two words: GAS WIPES.

The Sun always was, and contin-ues to be, a scrappy little periodical.

Of course the timing was unfor-tunate, given the Sun’s publisher was also in attendance at the lun-cheon. (He was strategically NOT seated at her table.)

Over the course of the meal the premier spoke candidly about deal-ing with bad press.

Sometimes, she admitted, she just doesn’t read it. Other times she just pretends that she doesn’t read it.

It must be even more difficult for municipal politicians to forge ahead through criticism and accu-sations, in as much as they have to face their critics and accusers not just at posh lunches, but in line at the grocery store when they are buying toilet paper, for example.

It’s got to hard to look cheerful when you are listening to someone

explain to you how stupid you REALLY are, while holding a jumbo pack of two-ply.

Social media has introduced a new and ugly twist to this prob-lem. So many of its users not only post like children, they seem to be arrested in the developmental stage of toddlers – the stage when kids believe just because they are cover-ing their own eyes, no one else can see them.

Peekaboo.Facebook is the world’s largest

bathroom wall. People writing on it need to remember they are not anonymous.

Professional media, especially at the community level, tends to be a little gentler with government.

That’s not to say it turns away from stories that have to be told, but most small town newspapers at least practice good manners and have little interest in embarrassing others just because they think they can.

Reporters and editors buy toilet paper as well.

There’s a mayor in small town Ontario who benefited from this gracious quality on almost a weekly basis. He misspoke often. On one occasion he gave an impromptu and lengthy interview about the poten-tial to use the local river as a source of electricity.

This would be the equivalent of

suggesting we build a small dam by the brown bridge in order to power Princeton.

We didn’t print that, and we learned to never call that mayor after twelve noon on any Friday. We cleaned up his grammar, and sometimes his facts, as a kindness.

Once, right before a photo shoot with several other local dignitar-ies the same mayor held up his hands and shouted. Wait! Wait! He fumbled in his front pocket as he said: I’ve got to put in my tooth. The wife will kill me if I don’t.

Never printed that either. Well, until now.

Princeton councillors appear to have tough skin and broad shoul-ders when it comes to some of the nonsense that gets taken for fact on Facebook.

As far as print media goes, they appear sober, literate, and they all have nice teeth.

So it’s good.

Not all media types are mean and nasty people

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The drive from Hedley to Coalmont would have been worthwhile just to drink Bob Sterne’s richly flavoured coffee and sample Diane’s lemon loaf. Between Princeton and Tulameen, Coalmont is somewhat off what we call the beaten path. At one stretch there is a steep drop to the valley below. I’d want a 4x4 pickup for the trip in winter.

Linda and I had not met the Sternes previ-ously but we already suspected they aren’t the type who wring their hands and say “some-one should do something about it.” They initially came to the Coalmont area to do gold panning. “We fell in love with the com-munity,” Diane told us. “Over several years we became quieter and quieter on our trips back to Anmore. This was where we wanted to be. At that time I was a dental assistant and Bob was building radio controlled sail boats.”

Set in a spacious valley Coalmont is, for the most part, peaceful and idyllic. In 2003 the Sternes made the momentous decision to buy the former CPR pay office in this community of about 85 citizens. “The building had no electricity, no plumbing and no septic tank,” Bob recalled. It was a daunting decision for other reasons as well. Even now, Coalmont has no doctor, nurse or first responder, no cell service, stores, or fire department. Also, there is no community water system so each property must have its own well.

They transformed the sadly neglected structure into a home and 3 unit motel, and named it the Mozey-On-Inn. Wanting to retain the aura of the earlier gold mining era, signs on the units designate them as Bank, Saloon and Barbershop.

With virtually no services people must come together in an emergency. “When Bob had a cardiac arrest while shovelling snow in the driveway,” Diane said, “people came to help. I had purchased a defibrillator some years ago after my Dad had a heart attack. A neighbour put the paddles on Bob. The Tulameen fire chief lives here and showed up with oxygen. Without the help of neighbours, Bob would be dead. It was a reminder that as a community we need to be self-reliant and help each other.”

The Sternes are passionate about preserv-ing local history, and in our 2 hour conversa-tion there were frequent references to the

past. “Walt Smart owned the only grocery store in town,” Bob said. “He let people run up a tab. Sometimes they couldn’t pay and when they moved out of town, they gave him their property. He loved the town and stayed here until he died in 2010.”

When we had emptied Bob’s coffee pot, eaten Diane’s delightful lemon loaf and toured the motel, we drove to the Granite Creek Cemetery. “The Granite Creek com-munity was founded in 1885,” Diane said. “By 1886 it was the third largest population centre in B.C.”

The community died when Postmaster Foxcrowle Percival Cooke passed away. Only the cemetery remains and it had dete-riorated almost beyond recognition. “Fallen

trees were lying across the graves,” Bob said. “The graves were poorly marked and hard to find.” In 2004 the Sternes and others in Coalmont decided to restore it. Using infor-mation provided by a funeral director and also notes from a high school research proj-ect, they began identifying occupants of the graves. They checked birth and death records at the Vancouver Library.

Walking about the now orderly and clean cemetery with Diane and Bob, we concluded that they think of the people in the graves as interesting acquaintances, even friends.

“We have marked all the known graves,“ Diane said. “I talk to the people when I’m working on their gravesite.” (Don’t worry, she’s totally sane).

As we passed one grave, Bob said, “That’s Mary. She was the second wife of Louis Marcotte. He built the Coalmont Hotel.” At another grave Diane said, “that’s Hattie McBride, the Coalmont madam, the second biggest contributor to the community’s WWI machine gun fund.”

As we were about to leave Bob said, “everyone in our community is involved, but people don’t talk about what they do. They just do it.”

“We’re living our dream,” Diane added. “I never want to leave. I want to die here.” Bob nodded agreement.

People waved at us as we were leaving town. If Linda and I weren’t settled in Hedley, Coalmont would be an attractive option.

Diane and Bob Sterne are living their dream in the tiny village of Coalmont.

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Spotlight publisher Andrea DeMeer took silver home Saturday night from the British Columbia and Yukon Newspaper Association annual awards.

DeMeer placed second in the column-writing category for her weekly column Old Dog New Tricks.

The columns entered

for judging covered the potential for Princeton to become the Deer Capital of Canada, and also the dangers of not “covering your ass” before leaving the house.

First place honors in the category went to another Black Press pub-lication, The Abbotsford News.

Publisher earns silver prize at provincial awards

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January 25, 1996 – May 3, 2016Cody Rice, a lifelong resident of the area, died on May 3 in Tulameen as the result of a car accident, at the age of 20.Cody was raised on the family ranch in Coalmont, and worked as a ranch hand at Mullin’s Ranch from the age of 13. He attended Kindergarten and Grade One at Tulameen Elementary School, and was in school in Princeton from Grades Two through 12. He enjoyed skidooing, hunting, fishing, dirt biking, quading, 4x4ing, mechanics, and spending time with friends and family.He is survived by his father Albert Rice, mother Loreeka Rice, sister Kelsey Ranger (Chris Ranger) and sister Marlee Rice, grandmothers Grace Rice and Betty Harrison and grandfather Bill Harrison, as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.A funeral service will be held Saturday May 14th, 1 p.m., at the family plot in Granite Creek. A celebration of life will follow at the Tulameen Ice Rink.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to Timberline Cruisers of Tulameen,

in Cody’s name.

Spotlight StaffSeveral local busi-

nesses are responding to the needs of their Fort McMurray neighbors by collecting donations for the Red Cross and hold-ing fundraisers.

Princeton Wood Preservers is literally holding a “fire” sale Saturday May 14th.

Firewood will be available across from the fairgrounds, by the truckload, from 8 am to 3 pm, by donation.

“This way it gives everyone a chance to do something,” said com-pany president Elizabeth Maron.

BC Liquor Stores are asking customers for donations of $2 and $5, and so far the local store has collected about $800.

As of Monday BC Liquor Stores across the province had col-lected approximately $250,000.

Donations to the Red Cross are also being accepted at Save On Foods, in either cash or store points.

Businesses rally to help fire victims

Spotlight StaffPrinceton’s historic caboose took a ride Monday morning, just down the highway to its new home along the KVR trail near Subway restaurant. The caboose was moved to make room for corporate and community signage on Highway 3 near Bridge Street. Municipal staff has suggested the caboose may eventually house a tourist operation.

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Mining a lifetime of industry and civic pride

Andrea DeMeerSpotlight Staff

Few people are as qualified to discuss the significance of mining to a small town as Frank Armitage.

As Princeton’s mayor, serving his second term, Armitage sees the daily impact Copper Mountain Mine has on the community and its economy.

As someone who spent fifty years work-ing at various mines across Canada – brush-ing up against everything from coal dust to diamonds in the process – he holds unique insight into a vital, sometimes challenging, and rewarding industry.

When Copper Mountain Mine opened in Princeton in June 2011 the mayor – who was also at the time Copper Mountain’s man-ager of human resources – was quoted in the trade press as declaring himself “in mining heaven.”

Armitage was barely out of Princeton

Secondary School when the Copper Mountain Mine, then owned by the Grandy Company, closed in 1957.

While he didn’t work for the mine at that time, his young family felt the pressure of the resulting economic downturn.

“Really, I’m an example of a Princeton boy who had to leave when the mine closed.”

With his wife Darnella and two small chil-dren, Armitage moved to work for another Grandy operation, an iron mine, in the south Queen Charlotte Islands.

“A number of people from Princeton had gone there to work and told me about it, par-ticularly the good wages. I applied and that’s what got me into the mining industry.”

After four years Armitage and his fam-ily moved to Boss Mountain in the Cariboo, and then to Granduc Mine in Stewart, near Alaska, where they spent nine years and the young mining executive “got serious and

started to work hard.” He spent two summers at the University

of Michigan studying human resources and administration and at the age of 29 was one of five on-site superintendents at Granduc.

What followed is really a reflection of the development of the Canadian mining indus-try in the latter part of the twentieth century. Armitage held senior positions at Alcan in Kemano BC, Canadian Mine Services in Toronto, Lac Minerals in Northern Ontario where he helped set up operations for a gold mine at Hemlo during the 1980s, and then Kirkland Lake in the same province.

After six years as vice president of human resources for INCO in St. John’s Newfoundland he expected to retire to his hometown of Princeton, what he calls “the best place in all of Canada,” when Copper Mountain Mine approached him to join their new Princeton team.

He left the company two years ago to devote himself fulltime to his mayoral duties – which also keep him in close touch with his former employer.

“I believe we are truly blessed to have Copper Mountain Mine,” he said. “It is a major, major foundation block of our econo-my, with 430 employees generating a payroll in excess of $40 million a year and 70 per cent of that work force lives in Princeton and the immediate area.

“They also make considerable donations to our service clubs and activity groups in the community, and from a business perspective

they buy locally with suppliers and merchants whenever possible. In summary I would say they are an outstanding corporate citizen.”

Last year Copper Mountain Mine and the Town of Princeton completed a boundary extension process that directs $330,000 of new tax revenue to municipal coffers annu-ally.

While acknowledging that low commod-ity prices have resulted in mine closures and layoffs across BC, Armitage said the Copper Mountain Mine has done “a fantastic job” keeping its full work force employed.

He credited positive attitudes, teamwork and excellent management with the mine’s continued success.

“One of the very impressive things that I enjoyed at Copper Mountain was the fact that they have a group of highly talented manag-ers working under a very talented vice presi-dent of operations, Don Strickland,” he said.

“One of the best features is they have built a strong working environment. It’s built on the team concept, and strong practices of fair and equitable treatment to all team members.

“My experience has been that the mining industry attracts and retains a very special group of people who bring a high level of skills and extreme dedication to their industry and employer. The level of pride in the indus-try is unparalleled.”

Armitage reflects on his lengthy career with both gratitude and satisfaction.

“I was blessed. It’s a great industry and I loved every minute of it.”

While Frank Armitage was raised in Princeton, and retired here, he spent most of his life traveling across the country working at different mines. In 1987 he worked for Lac Minerals in Ontario, and is shown here touring one of that company’s operations.

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Copper ore was first discovered in Princeton in 1884 by a trapper named James Jameson who was out hunting deer. Miners flooded to the area, giving rise to the town of Copper Mountain.

In 1885 a discovery near Granite Creek sparked a gold rush and for a brief time the town of Granite Creek was the third largest city in British Columbia. Except for a cem-etery, nothing remains of the community today.

At its height the Princeton coalfield featured 15 mines, the last of which closed in 1940. Over 1,600,000 tons of coal was extracted. Coal mined in Princeton was not suitable for locomotives because of its low caloric output but it was excellent for domestic use.

Many homes in Princeton today were actually built at Copper Mountain, and were sold, dismantled and moved to the community when the mine was shut down in 1957.

The Tulameen is one of only two rivers in the world where gold and platinum occur side by side.

Gold was first discovered in the Nickel Plate Mountain area in 1897. The Hedley Mascot Mine, which operated between 1936 and 1949 was one of the most unusual mining operations in the world, being built entirely on the side of a mountain, 7,000 feet above sea level.

A gold nugget weighing more than four pounds was found in a camp in Tulameen, in 1885.


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The area’s very first miners were First Nations Similkameen people. They harvested ochre pigment from local red striped mountainsides and traded it as far south as Navajo territory and as far east as the lands of the Blackfoot on the Prairies. Locally, they used it to make the paint for artful pictographs (rock paintings), still visible in many places around the region.

In 1932 almost half of the people listed in the Princeton town directory were coal miners, working in Tulameen.

Early prospectors in the Tulameen Valley sluicing for gold in the 1880s found heavy grey nuggets in their sluice boxes. Some threw it back into the river where others col-lected them in sacks, thinking them worthless, left them in the forest. The nuggets were platinum, which is today one of the most sought after minerals in the world.

Between 1927 and 1996 Copper Mountain produced more than 1.7 billion pounds of copper worth $6 billion, as well as 700,000 ounces of gold and nine million ounces of silver.


Coal was first discovered on the north bank of the Tulameen River in 1858, a fully exposed vein that reportedly could be lit by a match. The town of Coalmont was established in 1912 to serve as a supply point to the neighboring coal mine at Blackburn.

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Is the number of acres encompassed by Copper Mountain Mine. It consists primarily of 135 crown grants, 176 mineral claims and 14 mining leases.

Is the number of dollars Copper Mountain Mine spends on electricity every year. Power is the second greatest expense of running the mine, with labor costs being the first.

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Eleanor Laura Christina SinclairSept. 24th, 1926 - May 10th, 2015

God saw you were getting tired, and a cure was not to be,so He put his arms around you and whispered, “Come to Me.”

With tearful eyes we watched you,and saw you pass away,

and although we loved you dearly,we could not make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beating,hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us,He only takes the best.

Happy Mother’s Day MOM. Sadly missed by her children Barbara Ryan/Jim Dyck, Earl/Sandi Sinclair, Noreen/Mervin Ford,

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Garage Sales

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The BC Liberals have unanimously acclaimed Jackie Tegart as the party candi-date in Fraser-Nicola for the upcoming 2017 provincial election.

“I’m proud to be part of a ‘get it done’ government that has funded sustainable social programs through fiscal discipline and a top-performing economy,” said Tegart. “I will continue to be a strong voice for all interests in the Fraser-Nicola — whether in job cre-ation, a scientific and collaborative approach to our environment, new health care, forestry innovation or small business growth.”

Tegart has worked for job-producing, sus-tainable economic development throughout her career, and she believes the BC Liberals

are the right choice for keeping rural British Columbia strong.

“Across the country the NDP are becom-ing a dying breed and for good reason,” said Tegart. “The NDP continue to say no to resource development and to supporting the core industries that are the lifeblood for the Fraser-Nicola and this Province.”

Since joining the Christy Clark govern-ment in 2013, Tegart has been elected Caucus Chair and is currently serving as a member of the Cabinet Committee on Secure Tomorrow, the Environment and Land Use and various other Select Standing committees including Education and the Cabinet Working Group on Labour among others. Tegart will build

on her positive record of working with local non-profits, small businesses, First Nations, immigrants, and all families to deliver results at home.

“We are heading into an extremely impor-tant election in British Columbia and Premier Christy Clark has proven she understands the priorities of rural BC,” added Tegart. “Our leader’s focus on job creation, responsible resource development, and investments in sustainable social services is working for the families who live here.”

The general provincial election will take place on Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Tegart gets ready for next year’s provincial election

Jackie Tegart, Fraser-Nicola MLA

similkameen spotlight, may 11, 2016

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