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SLIDING into the New Year!
Robin Vander Heide/Houston Today
Everybody is taking the opportunity over the holidays to get out and enjoy the beautiful winter weather. There are so many great winter activities to participate in and around Houston, like curling, skating, ice fishing, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, or like Caroline Thomson, Maris, and Sawyer (pictured above), you could try sledding right into the New Year!
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Houston has made it to the final round vying for the title of 2016 Sled Town Champion of Western Canada. The contest closes at midnight on December 31, 2015. At press time last Thursday, Houston had 52 percent of the vote and Yorkton, Sk had 48 percent. The Sled Town promo is sponsored by Sno Riders West magazine. Sno Riders West publisher Keith Powell said the winner “...gets bragging rights of being the number one sled destination according to the magazine poll. The winning destination gets a trophy and is featured in
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“Voting deadline is December 31, 2015.”
a magazine article in Sno Riders West magazine. H o u s t o n Snowmobile Club president Shea Long said the promotion “…has been good for us because people are finally getting to see where on the map Houston is and what Houston has to offer.” Long urged people to vote for Houston in the showdown finals at: http://snoriderswest. com/sledtown_showdown/2015_finals
Small communities hardest hit by commodity price plunge By Flavio Nienow Black Press
In the story ‘Huckleberry Mine lays off 20 employees’ published in the Lakes District News’ Dec. 2 issue, 20 workers were laid off through a restructuring of the Huckleberry Mine. According to
Randall Thompson, Chief Operating Officer at Huckleberry Mine, the company has been facing higher operating costs and a drop in copper prices. Copper prices have been falling for the last few years, trading below the $2 U.S. level on Canadian markets on Nov. 23, 2015, a low
“...the company has been facing higher operating costs and a drop in copper prices”
not seen since 2009. Giovanni Gallipoli,
- Randall Thompson, Huckleberry Mine COO Associate Professor at the University of
British Columbia, explains that copper
prices have been falling due to a general slowdown in aggregate demand around the world, and notably in China. “Simply put, the world economy is not growing as fast as it was, at least as compared to the period before 2008,” he said. “Prices are set inter-
nationally, so changes in the demand of large consumers such as China, the U.S., or Western Europe are immediately reflected in the price paid to producers.” Since copper is widely used in manufacturing, when manufacturing growth slows See COPPER on Page 2
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