Local Family Buys Loghouse Restaurant

By 250 News

Meet Roger Pelletier, the new owner of the Loghouse Restaurant  and RV Park, (photo opinion250 staff)

The Loghouse Restaurant and RV Park has been purchased by a Prince George area family.

Roger Pelletier had the winning bid of $875 thousand dollars for the 11 plus acre Tabor Lake property.

“I bought it purely as an investment” says Pelletier, but he admits there are some sentimental ties to the property.  “My wife Vicki and I celebrated our 25^th anniversary there, and it was my daughter’s favourite restaurant.”

He has no plans for the property, but says he likely won’t continue the restaurant part of that operation.  “I am definitely not a restaurateur” says Pelletier.  He was bidding against a  potential buyer from Richmond,  and  says his wife Vicki was on the cell phone with him through the whole bidding process, “Oh she knows about it alright, she  may not have physically  been here , but she was with me  on the  phone through the  whole thing.”

(at right, Katie and Inga Gunther watch the bidding  from the second floor Platinum Lounge at the Ritchie Brothers Auction in Prince George)

As the Pelletier’s were in the bidding war,  upstairs at the Ritchie Brothers Auction site in Prince George, the sellers, the  Gunther family, prepared  to say goodbye to the  property that has  been part of their lives for decades.  Richard Gunther owned the property for 30 years, and   wife Inga has been there for 24.  It was home for their daughter Katie who is now studying at University in Edmonton.  “It is a difficult day” says Richard, “You know, it was a lifetime.”

Heading into the bidding,   neither Richard nor Inga had any expectations for what kind of money would be paid “We won’t cry or be upset” said Richard “We will be content with whatever comes.”

Later today, the antiques and collectibles that were the signature décor of the Loghouse will be offered for auction.

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