the Cariboo Advisor Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Volume 16, Issue 11
March 13, 2013
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Price investigation continues Angie Mindus Cariboo Advisor The small community of Likely and area is the focal point of an ongoing RCMP investigation into the worrisome disappearance of 60-year-old Gary Price. Mr. Price has now been missing almost two weeks. He was last seen Feb. 28 and reporting missing by concerned family members March 3 after his truck was found about one kilometre east of Likely, parked on the side of Keithley Creek Road. The Williams Lake RCMP, with the assistance of the Central Cariboo Search and Rescue and an RCMP helicopter, conducted an extensive physical search of the Yank's Peak snowmobiling area (located about a half hour's drive east of Likely) and the
Keithley Creek Road for three days before standing down the search last week. “At this point we don't believe a further ground search will provide any more information,” said Insp. Warren Brown of the Williams Lake RCMP. Brown said the investigation into Price's disappearance is now “switching gears” from a physical search into an investigation, with RCMP canvassing local residents and businesses in the Likely area. “Right now, we are trying to learn as much about Mr. Price as we can – who his friends are, what his daily routine was, his lifestyle,” said Brown. Brown said police have found no leads to suggest Mr. Price met with foul play. He did note however that the disappearance is “unusual and out-of-char-
acter for Mr. Price.” “We have to be cognizance of the fact that sometimes unfortunate things happen to people.” For the past three seasons Price worked on a part time basis for The Williams Lake Powder Kings Club at the Yank's Peak parking lot where he worked weekends collecting trail fees from snowmobilers. “It gave him a little extra spending money,” said Powder Kinds President Rick Jelley of Price's work. “He was a good guy for us. He did a good job.” Jelley said the club lent Price a snowmobile as part of the deal to use to get back and forth from the Yank's Peak parking lot where he parked his truck to his remote, snowmobile access-only home on nearby Cariboo Lake. That snowmobile was found
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A map indicating the location of Price’s truck and snowmobile. parked and tarped where Price usually stored it. As police continue to investigate Price's disappearance, they are asking
anyone who was snowmobiling from the Yank's Peak parking lot on the weekend of Feb. 23 or 24 to contact them at 250-392-6211.
Neighbour averts disaster on Fairview Drive Angie Mindus Cariboo Advisor Williams Lake Fire Chief Randy Isfeld is crediting the quick actions of a neighbour with averting a full-blown house fire in the golf course subdivision early Tuesday morning. “The owners were for-
tunate that their neighbour saw the fire because they were sound asleep,” said Isfeld yesterday, who received the call for help at 4:21 a.m. Isfeld said the neighbour of #57 Fairview Drive was heading to work when he saw a fire at the
back of his neighbour's house, and quickly alerted them. Then, Isfeld said, the neighbour and home owners grabbed their fire extinquishers and put out most of the fire before crews arrived. “Not only did they get lucky (with the neighbour
spotting the fire), but they also handled it well,” said Isfeld. “If those things didn't happen we would have been dealing with something very different.” Isfeld was still investigating the cause of the fire yesterday. Early estimates
put the damage to the home at about $10,000. This was the fire department's 67th call out of the year. It is also Isfeld's 37th and final year with the fire department, as he nears his retirement date of August 31.
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