by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
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...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
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...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
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...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
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...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
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...
