Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Serving the Hub of the North since 1960
Volume 55 • Issue 36
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Hunting outfitters hit 25-year anniversary
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HEALTH AND LEISURE MART RETURNS NEWS - PAGE 6 Thompson Citizen photo by Molly Gibson Kirby Charles Southworth, left, Scott Price, Calvin McLeod, and Gary Cumberworth traveled to Thompson to hunt bear with Blaine Snihor, right, and his mother Anne Snihor. The Snihors own Trapper Mikes Outfitting. BY MOLLY GIBSON KIRBY MOLLY@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET
Hunting is a common hobby for many people in the north, but for Anne and Blaine Snihor it’s their business. Trapper Mike’s Outfitting has reached their 25th anniversary of being a bear hunting outfitter.
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Anne previously had the business with her late husband Mike, but has continued on without him. “Some times I stay home while they hunt to cook, but I do go and bait. I go through the bush but I’m no young chicken. When my husband died, people didn’t think I could do
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it alone, but I showed them.” The business offers a week of bear hunting to anyone outside of Canada. Recently a group of four from Michigan and South Carolina traveled to Thompson for the hunt. Gary Cumberworth has been bear hunting with the Snihor’s three
times previously, and convinced his friends to come with. “The first comments I told the friends I brought up here, is I tell them about how great the people are, before the bear hunting. Miss Anne is the nicest lady, and the helpers, Continued on Page 2
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