Prince George, B.C.- Pat Bell  has  resigned from his post as Executive Vice President at Conifex.

( at right, Bell at the announcement of the Northern Lights Estate winery – photo 250News archive)

“Conifex is a great company, and I continue to  sit on the Board  and will contribute from that angle, but  I was finding  the combination of trying to do the winery, continue to run the family business in Prince George and work full time for Conifex  just  was overwhelming.  So something had to  go and  family comes first.”

Bell and his family are developing the Northern Lights Estate Winery on P.G. Pulpmill Road,  a project that is still being developed.

“I was spreading myself  way too thin” says Bell who adds “I don’t like to do anything poorly, so it  was a simple decision, do I commit myself to the family business or do I  stay  full time with Conifex?  Conifex has asked me to stay on the Board, so I will  continue to contribute  through that perspective  and be able to dedicate myself more fully to the winery.”

It has been a tough start to the new year for Bell.

On the weekend,  he was on Tabor Mountain when he started feeling what he thought were flu like symptoms.  Before the day was over, he would  find himself recovering from  an emergency appendectomy.