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Resort shareholders OK sale agreementBy JUDI BOWERSReporter

The sale of Big Bear Mountain Resorts took a step closer to reality Nov. 2 when the shareholders of Snow Summit Ski Corporation gave a thumbs up to the merger agreement.

The transaction was approved with about a 71 percent yes vote. Thanksgiving is still the target date for escrow to close and Mammoth Mountain to assume operations, according to Brent Tregaskis, general man-ager of Bear Mountain.

“We believe Mammoth ownership will be good for Big Bear and is certainly good for the shareholders, who after 62 years of operations finally had a chance to cash in on their investments,” said Richard Kun, president and CEO of Snow Summit Ski Corporation.

Mammoth is waiting on a new special use permit to be issued by the U.S. Forest Service for the deal to be final. Tregaskis said the special stockholders meeting went smoothly, with more than 80 percent of the

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Big Bear Valley pays tribute to veterans at annual ceremony

American Legion Post 584 and the Marine Corps League mark Veterans Day at the Convention Center at Big Bear Lake Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 11:11 a.m.

The public is invited and all veterans are encouraged to join the ceremony.

The 11th day in November held special significance at the end of World War I. While the official end of what was known as The Great War culminated with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, an armi-stice, or temporary cease-fire between the

Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Armistice Day became an official national holiday in 1938. In 1954

Search is on for cemetery managerBy JUDI BOWERSReporter

Angelo Cardono says the Gold Mountain Memorial Park hasn’t been abandoned. It’s waiting for a manager.

Cardono is the lone remaining owner of the cemetery in Big Bear City that opened in the early 1980s. There were eight own-ers behind the cemetery, but all have died, Cardono says. State regulations have changed, and a licensed manager is required. The fee for the license and test is about $850, Cardono says, a far cry from the $25 or so the previous manager paid.

Gold Mountain Memorial Park isn’t a money-making operation. It was never expected to be, Cardono says. It was always a community project, he says.

The partners included Dr. Phillip Reames and Ivan Cowper, among others. They were all flying buddies of Cardono, he says. Reames’ wife wanted to be buried in Big Bear, Cardono says, and that spurred the idea for developing a cemetery.

The partners located property in Baldwin Lake and received approvals from San Bernardino County for the cemetery on that site in 1981. In 1982, environmental con-cerns were raised by Tim Krantz, who said rare plants in the area would be devastated by the project.

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Dick Kun, president and CEO of Snow Summit Ski Corporation, has sold the local resorts to Mammoth pending Forest Service permit approval.

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Veterans of all wars and all branches of the military are honored at the ceremony set for Nov. 11 at the Convention Center at Big Bear Lake as shown in this photo from last year.

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