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A message from Cariboo Family Enrichment Centre
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Edible straws one B.C. entrepreneur’s latest weapon in war against plastic
Kat Gellerman has spent more than 20 years working in the food business
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Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Marketing Association launches podcast series, new website
Podcast series hosted by Jason Ryll of Williams Lake
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Mining association banquet, bonspiel to support Heavy Metal Rocks program
Representatives from Gibralatar, Barkerville Gold and New Afton will give updates at banquet
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From the Free Press Archives
25 YEARS AGO (1995): The Cariboo Clean Air Committee was calling for a complete municipal ban for smoking in indoor public places. The petition was run by public health nurse Shirley Carter and local anti-smoking activist Margaret Wiens. Mayor Carlson said the council needed 100 per cent of all local businesses to co-operate in the petition before the bylaw is considered. “The restaurants are going to hate this and Ray Carlson isn’t going to like it, but it has to be done,” said Wiens.
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Canfor shareholders reject Pattison’s takeover offer
Lumber company says offer had just 45% support from minority shareholders
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‘Life goes on’: forestry professional strategizing to keep Clinton’s Community Forest profitable
‘The wood will still go to whoever is going to pay the most for it, essentially’
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Employee relocation efforts still in the works as Chasm Sawmill approaches September shutdown
West Fraser ‘trying to retain everybody that’s willing to transfer to another division’
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