EKFH’s East Kootenay Regional Hospital ICU Redevelopment Campaign has received another major gift thanks to CANFOR. CANFOR’s East Kootenay Operations is dedicating $9,000 from its charitable giving program to support the hospital foundation’s fundraising effort to fully equip the only ICU unit in the region. “We are pleased to be able to dedicate a portion…
It doesn’t get better than this Dale Bencharsky “Helping people excel is the biggest kick i get out of my job.” Dale Bencharsky had no idea what kind of opportunity was knocking when he took a six-month accounting contract with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac) in 1993. But that contract turned into full-time work, and that…
Much like his company, Peter Wijnbergen doesn’t feel the need to keep a high profile. Wijnbergen, 58, works out of an unassuming cubicle in Norbord Inc.’s head office in Toronto, like the rest of the staff. It could just as easily belong to an intern and a visitor wouldn’t know the difference. The corner space…
It’s time for woodlot owners, the industry and governments to start thinking outside the woodbox. That’s the message guest speaker Peter deMarsh delivered to the Federation of Nova Scotia Woodland Owners at the association’s annual meeting at the Holiday Inn in Truro on Saturday. “The industry is going to have to start paying more,” said…
A First Nation in northern Saskatchewan evacuated 101 people Saturday due to smoke from forest fires. According to Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson on social media, those with health concerns were taken to Prince Albert as a precaution. Evacuees are from the communities of Clam Lake Bridge and Sikichew Lake. Staff from…
Pine beetles that killed large swaths of Okanagan forest five years ago may be down, but they’re not out. The pest has infested hundreds of trees made vulnerable by the Trepanier Creek fire near Peachland in 2012. Crews felled about 400 pines along the four-kilometre greenway this spring.“The fire essentially brought the beetle in, and…
When I first became involved in forestry in the 1980s there was a debate over choosing a younger harvest age which would maximize fibre production rather than produce larger dimension more valuable lumber from older forests. The rapid growth rates of young forests produces more fibre per hectare which could be reconstituted (glued back together)…
Even the newest residents of Squamish likely have a sense that the forest industry is a large part of Squamish’s past, but what does it mean to Squamish today? The Squamish Chief sat down with Jeff Fisher, president and forestry manager of Sqomish Forestry LP, to talk about logging in the district. Q: What do…
Northern Pulp has fired one its senior managers after he confronted the mayor of New Glasgow at a charity event on the weekend. “I was fired not about incompetence or something I did in the mill. I was fired because I voiced my opinion and expressed myself to the mayor,” says Aby Karoud, who until…
At first glance, it looks like a wooden castle is going up in downtown Sudbury. Crews at the site of the new 54,000 square foot Laurentian University School of Architecture building have been pouring concrete and installing rebar in the way you might expect at a construction site. But two-story high walls made from an engineered wood product not often seen in northern Ontario have…