Jim Davis, project designer for Starship, and the staff who kept the old Westar mili! going under adverse conditions in the early 1980’s, were given credit by Repap chairman George Petty for having the drive and vision to press his company for a renewal of the sawmilling operation.

Debarked logs flowing along this conveyor into the mill

area of Starship are scanned by a computer that deter, mines cut sizes and saw settings to get the most out of |

each piece of timber.

A few facts about Starship

Here’s what Starship is and what it @ Products: cando: -

“@ Cost: $42 million,

pine-fir dimension lumber, 22 mm x 75 mm up to 100 mm x 300 mm.

TERRACE — It was a flawless launch, and the event drew worldwide attendance. Project Star- ship got off the ground, and witnesses for the grand opening of the most technically advanced

sawill on the globe included the Premier of B.C., the Minister of Forests and MLA for

Skeena, the MP for Skeena, dozens of the cor- porate heads from around the world who pur;

chase our home-grown lumber, and the entire.

board of directors from the company that made it all possible, Repap Enterprises of Montreal. _ Hundreds of local residents spent the morn- ing touring the new facility that will form the foundation of the local economy for the next two decades. They saw logs debarked, flow on- to the conveyor leading into the mill, scanned

by a‘computer that determines the optimum

cuts calculated to get the most out each piece of

wood. They saw them sawn, edged, trimmed, -

graded, sorted, and bundled, virtually untouch-

ed by the skilled workers who direct the: machinery. They saw evident pride in a world-_ class operation exercised in an environment as —

clean asahospitah -«

At the pavilion set up on the mill site especially for this occasion, a freewheeling par- ty atmosphere prevailed. Live music echoed through the gigantic tent and endless quantities of free food and drink flowed.

At 2 p.m. Mayor Jack Talstra started the . opening ceremonies by remarking that the

clouds had parted for the Premier. The near- record rainfall and winds of the previous day

had created nervousness about arrival of the.

guests for the ceremony. 7 Talstra was followed on the speaker's plat- form by George Petty, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Repap. Petty gave em- phatic credit for the conception and completion

of the project to Jim Davis and the rest of the

ace

Hemlock and spruce-

e have lift-off

FALL CLEAN-UP WEEK | - OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7, 1988

The ‘City of Terrace’s Department will pick up extra garbage and refuse, free of charge, on the above dates.

This service does NOT include car bodies, stumps or industrial waste. Kindly arrange to have this extra garbage and waste material set out on your regular pick up day. Please

e@ Time to build: July 1987 to May

1988. ee

-@ Amount spent. locally:-$9 million. @ Number of employees: 180. | @ Annual payroll: $7 million.

@ Log consumption: 700,000 cubic

. meters per year. a @ Lumber production: 350,000. cubic meters per year. ne mt

-@ Major markets: Japan, the Middle

East and the United Kingdom.

_.@ Corporate connections: Owned by

Skeena: Cellulose Inc., a division of

“Repap enterprises of Montreal. Assets

of $1.5 billion with holdings throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Revenues in 1987 reached $927 million

with a net income of $62.5 milllon. '

have garbage and waste material in plastic | bags or cartons to assist in the pick up. Residents-are reminded to check their Add-A-’ | Day Calendars, as» garbage. pick up days. change following all. Statutory Holidays.

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staff at the plant, “It’s difficult not’ to get choked up,” he said. ‘This is the day Starship takes off, and it’s because Jim Davis and the.

rest of them demanded it.’’ Petty also gave

credit to the B.C. government for approving

‘the largest loan in the history of the B.C.

Development Corporation to help Repap get off the ground in B.C., and he described the ac- quisition of the former Westar assets as the

. ‘*best thing that ever happened to Repap’’.

“Repap is a young company, we’re commit- ted to growth and risk... we're looking ahead,

- and we want.our people to be with us, We like “you, we honor you,’” he continued. ‘“We have

plans, this is only a launching pad.” Petty con-

cluded by announcing a four-for-the-price-

three. stock purchase option plan’ for

'_ employees.

“Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Starship is

without a doubt the finest plant I’ve ever

seen’’, He added that he was deeply impressed

.. by attitude of the workers and also impressed by the level of turnout by the community for the opening of the mill.

Forests Minister Dave Parker predicted the project “‘will help reverse the cyclical trend of past years’’ and result in ‘‘improved morale for

. the community’’. .

Skeena MP Jim Fulton commended Petty for

his investment in the Northwest, and he also

noted the company’s sensitivity to aboriginal issues in the region — they’ve hired Murray Coolichan as a consultant to work with native

groups who have land interests on Tree Farm

License #1. . Reg Lightfoot from the Skeena Cellulose

Vancouver office, complimented the mill’s

financial administrator Terry Cook. for the

“organizing job he did on the opening day

celebrations.

NOTICE

Public Works

The Clty. of Terrace.