The mayor of Sun Peaks is in good spirits and no worse for wear after suffering a minor stroke.

Speaking while skiing at the mountain resort this morning, Al Raine says the incident happened last month, on Dec. 11, while he was in a Destination BC meeting.

“I was in Vancouver, and I decided that I wasn’t kind of doing any more, so I flew back and I checked in to the hospital in Kamloops. And they did a bunch of tests, finally did an MRI and said to me ‘yeah, you had a little stroke.’ Fortunately no damage, I guess I had a few extra brain cells I wasn’t using.”

Responding tongue-in-cheek, he says the matters of the meeting weren’t the cause of his condition.

“Well it was actually, in fact, my last meeting as a board member, because of their term limits, I’d done my term there. So it was a bit of a special meeting. But there was no stress in the meeting, so certainly the meeting didn’t cause my problem.”

The 78-year-old Raine is in his fourth term as Sun Peaks mayor. He is the only mayor the municipality has had since it incorporated in 2010.