The Similkameen News Leader
Editorial
A NEW WAVE OF STOCKING STUFFERS
EDITORIAL - November 21, 2006
With just over 30 days to Christmas, we thought it would be a good idea to offer up some 'local' stocking stuffer gift ideas to get you in the mood.
We're hoping nobody gives us shares in Compliance Energy Corporation although a stock certificate may make for an interesting conversation piece a few months from now.
That being said, Compliance could actually jump on the Christmas bandwagon and start to package up small amounts of coal mined from their Basin Mine and sell them off at somewhere around $5.00 for a tube of coal dust labeled as "Mined from the historic hills of Blakeburn."
If they really thought about it, packaged it and marketed it right - using the internet as well, they could probably make enough money moving coal samples from Blakeburn to probably afford those new fangled forms of technology everyone keeps taking about regarding the coal/wood waste power generating plant.
What a nifty way to get the public on board for their project. Sell them all a piece of history for five bucks a pop!
While we're at it, the Town of Princeton missed a golden opportunity as well with the Princeton Hotel remains.
Who in Princeton wouldn't spend $5.00 on a piece of local history such as a piece of tile or a brick or twisted piece of metal salvaged from the historic site?
The Town of Princeton could have generated enough interest that a lot of money could have been made and clean-up would have been done in the form of people buying something and walking away with it. No need for heavy equipment with the giant Princeton Hotel Yard Sale going on.
We think the same method could be used when the Similkameen River is low. Imagine the interest in buying a bucket of silt and sand washed down the historic Similkameen?
Should the concept take off the river would end up getting dredged one bucket at a time - slow enough to not disturb the fragile eco-system, yet fast enough to be flood-safe by the next spring runoff.
We're about to run down to Town Hall for our business licence, anyone else with us on this?
