The late John Lee, a pivotal figure in the development of the Upper Clutha district through the development of the Cardrona Alpine Resort, Cardrona Hotel and the Snow Farm cross-country skiing facility, has been farewelled at a private ceremony today.<\/p>\n
A statement released on behalf of the Lee family said the 89-year-old died peacefully on Sunday with his family by his side.<\/p>\n
Mr Lee and wife Mary bought Mt Cardrona Station in 1971, and spent the rest of the decade developing a ski area there.<\/p>\n
Cardrona Alpine Resort opened to the public in 1980.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s next major project, the world-class cross-country skiing facility at Waiorau, Snow Farm, opened in 1990.<\/p>\n
The Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds came to life during the development of Snow Farm in 1984.<\/p>\n
The Lees then supported their youngest son Sam in the development of freestyle skiing and snowboarding facility Snow Park, in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n
A public celebration of Mr Lee\u2019s life and contribution to the community will be held at 2pm on February 7 at the Cardrona Distillery.<\/p>\n
An obituary will follow.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late John Lee, a pivotal figure in the development of the Upper Clutha district through the development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-199778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}