Has the deer debate gone wild?
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SPOTLIGHT
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The Similkameen
Volume 65 Issue 1
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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OH SNOW - here we go again
Andrea DeMeer
Darryl Clarke, of Tucker Backhoe Services, was busy Monday clearing snow from private parking lots in the downtown. “There’s just so much of it,” he said. “There isn’t any place to put it all.” Andrea DeMeer snow,” said Wiseman, combined with the rock face and the Spotlight. “But it looks like people are heeding the warning of Spotlight Staff way snow collects that creates the problem. careful driving…we haven’t had any calls last night or today
Princeton was on the receiving end of another winter blast this week – along with much of the province’s southern interior – prompting many businesses to close Monday and making travel tricky in and outside of town. Environment Canada released numerous weather alerts for the area Sunday and Monday, and DriveBC issued a series of cautions about road conditions on Highway 5A, and avalanche warnings. Jeff Wiseman, the area’s Ministry of Transportation operations manager, said avalanche control workers were in the Coalmont Road area for most of the day Monday. “When the weather is like this it’s the sheer volume of
Weather Watch Wednesday
High4/Low-2
Thursday
High2/Low-2
Friday
High 3/ Low 1
Saturday
High3/Low-1
Sunday
High3/Low1
As of Monday afternoon Wiseman said there had been a number of “small slides” of snow on Coalmont Road and Highway 5A. Avalanche control technicians fly close to suspect areas and use explosives to trigger avalanches before they become hazards to drivers, Wiseman explained. “It depends on the winter we are having. Sometimes we have to come out two or three times a winter.” Despite treacherous driving conditions, there were no accidents on area roads as of Monday afternoon. “I expected to see collision after collision after collision,” Sergeant Barry Kennedy, Princeton RCMP detachment commander, told the
Stay on the Road!
for accidents.” Kennedy said Monday calls to the local detachment were mostly concerning false security alarms tripped by the heavy snowfall. Snow removal was on the minds of many people Monday, as they dug out from underneath more than 12 inches of snow accumulation. Kevin Huey, Princeton’s Director of Infrastructure and Parks, said town crews began work at 4:30 a.m. and would recommence plowing at the same time Tuesday. “We do field a few calls,” said Huey, who acknowledged continued page nine
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