The finishing touches on the Coho Streamline house are being brushed on the house as these words are being written!! Exciting times for Copper Coast, indeed. Of course that means we will welcome our first residents of Copper Coast arriving later this week. We welcome them ALL THE WAY from beautiful Beaumont, Alberta!! Congratulations on your retirement.

The push is now on to complete the Tyee model which is slated to be ready August 1 - this unit will be available for nightly rentals upon completion. The electrical and plumbing roughins are complete and the insulation/poly will get under way this week. Drywall is scheduled to begin next week and we will be right on cue.

Features of the Tyee are:

A walkout level (see attached photo’s) with 2 bedrooms in opposite corners for privacy

• each with their own full bathroom
• 32′ covered patio
• laundry
• shared mini kitchen
• large (16′ x 16′) shared lounge/living room

Main floor with 3 bedrooms including the large loft

• full kitchen
• huge living room with gas fireplace and 19′ ceiling
• tub/shower on the main floor bath
• amazingly relaxing soaker tub in the loft bathroom with a window that peers up the inlet
• 32′ deck at the front
• large windows that capture the stunning views: from bald eagles to eager fishermen or maybe a tug towing a barge on it’s way to the mill
• laundry

For more details and photos of the rentals, we will be adding this to the website shortly.

For those of you that have inquired about a one level cabin at a much lower price rather than the full home plans please feel free to call!!

This is the summer to come see what we have been doing, exciting time indeed!

By now I am sure you have all been enjoying the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver. Since we have readers from the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain, China, India and other parts of the world we wanted to share our congratulations to those countries who helped make these games so special. For many Canadians the games have centered around the hockey and now that the women have completed their mission the entire country is eagerly anticipating the men’s semi-final action tonight AND hopefully a birth in the final Sunday!!!

Building is rapidly progressing on schedule at Copper Coast and we would enjoy sharing reports from the work site with you all:

1. The first home is at the drywall stage with the taping and sanding to be completed early next week followed by the painting/finishing.
2. The power in the second place is up and running which means we can now put the generator away and actually get to the shop and turn the lights on!!!
3. We are framing the roof on the second house and we will shoot for a completion date of July or early August - IT WILL THEN BE AVAILABLE FOR NIGHTLY RENTALS.

We have been very fortunate to not only find trades in the area but to have tradesmen that put their heart and soul into the project which is evident by the quality of work (see pictures for proof!) Also a photo of a group of students (out for a morning row) from Vancouver Island University who shared their ideas with the village to bring more people to this beautiful part of the world.

Watch our newsletters for specials on fishing packages!!

I am back in Port Alice for about 10 days.

Herb Saunders and his crew were working on the Copper Coast property during the third week of June. They had two excavators, a cat and a dump truck busy leveling the lots for the first two homes and the shop. Wayne was in Port Alice these days. He did not have time to go fishing unfortunately, after all, it’s business before pleasure!

Good morning

I was in Port Alice between May 31st and June 5th.

While Alberta was once again having late snow storms Vancouver Island and Port Alice were setting records with temperatures between the high 20’s and low 30’s.

During the week I was in Port Alice, the engineer met with the village and the contractor for services to the Copper Coast property. It has now been determined that a lift station for the sewer will be installed rather than a gravity flow system. One of the issues at hand has been the creek adjacent to the property that needs to be worked around. This issue has been resolved and the drawings are being redrawn so as not to disturb the creek and the contractor can start the trenching and installation of sewer and water lines ASAP.

Right now an excavator for the project is leveling the lot where the first of two homes will be built. Construction will start in July. We are excited to have something going up on site very soon.

The other good news is that Copper Coast is now officially a builder member of National Home Warranty.

Of course, while in Port Alice myself, the engineer and the former mayor of Port Alice, Larry Pepper, had a day out on the water. It was too rough that day to go to the open ocean but they spent a happy, sunny day in the inlet. They saw lots of eagles and also watched sea otters crack shellfish on their chests. They brought home about 180 prawns. On the drive in to Port Alice I also saw some beautiful big black bears.