B10 Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 23, 1991
Kitwanga planer
‘mill back in action

After overcoming cold weather
problems early in the month the
Westar Timber planer mill in Kit-
wanga is now up and running for
one full time shift.

. The mill had been shut down in

May of last year due to long-term
sawlog shortages, but the Minister
of Forests instructed Westar to put
the mill’s workforce back on the
job or face penalties involving its
forest tenures in the Kispiox Tim-
ber Supply Area.

Westar official Reg Thurlbom
said the start-up was difficult due
to extraordinarily low temperatures
and wind-chill in early January,
coupled with the fact that the mill
hadn’t been winterized after it was
shut down last year. The mill ran

_ for half of the day Jan. 7, but the
crew was sent home due to un-
- coinfortable working conditions
and ‘mechanical problems in the
plant. A small crew remained on
the job, attempting to get the mill

and building in running order.

The planer started full time Jan.
14, pulting 27 people back to
work.

To comply with the terms of the
minister’s letter, Westar will have
to add a second shift to the planer
mill in March and restart full pro-
duction at the main sawmill in
September. Thurlborn noted that
the letter instructs Westar to
restore full employment of the
Kitwanga workforce, and that the
company has the option of creating
employment through means other
than the mill operation if it can
come up with a plan that the
ministry will accept.

The problem that originally
prompted the mill closure, insuffi-
cient timber to feed both the Kit-
wanga mill and the newer Carnaby
-mill in Hazelton, still remains. The
ministry offered Westar no new
timber, and Thurlborn said Jan. 18

Games representative Maria Thomsen.

Wilkinson Business Machines became a patron of the 1991 Northem
Terrace with the donation of $5,000 last week, presented by Bob Wilkinson and received by

B.C. Winter Games in

that the situation hasn’t changed.

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