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Life has a funny way of coming around full circle. Princeton has been a mining town since way back when and now again in the year 2011, it is a mining town again.

Government communications have traditionally been built around a stream of propaganda, with the emphasis on pictures and text arranged to show the ruling politicians of the day in a flattering light.

The B.C. government finished the fiscal year this spring with a deficit of $309 million, nearly $1 billion less than what was forecast last fall.

Chinese buyers purchased $122 million worth of B.C. lumber in May, surpassing the value of lumber shipments to the United States for the first time ever.

Princeton resident, Wanda Foss missing for approximately three weeks.

“We don’t just give the students facts,” stated Constable John Leach. “We give the students the tools to make good choices in life.”

Six years since its first test well was drilled, PetroBakken Energy, a Petrobank company, is concluding its coalbed gas evaluation program in the Princeton area. A comprehensive evaluation of the results of that first well plus an analysis of existing production technologies showed that the appropriate technology does not yet exist to commercially produce natural gas from this reservoir.

FortisBC wheeled into town recently to promote their campaign for some easy energy saving with their retractable clothesline give-away. Mayor Randy McLean was up bright and early to help FortisBC ambassadors, Bridgitte Leyland and Alice Reynolds, hand out 45’ long clotheslines to local residents who stopped by the gazebo at Veterans Square.

Princeton and District Museum has re-printed a booklet telling the history of Manning Park in celebration of BC Parks hundredth and Manning Parks’ seventieth anniversaries this year. This booklet was first produced in 1991 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Park which was created in 1941.

When a passenger is asked to don a parachute before stepping into an airplane for a trip skyward, the flight takes on a higher level of awareness. This is a prerequisite to any flight in pilot Ken Fowler’s Harmon Rocket.