By Mayor Ute Juras Village of Canal Flats Summer has come and gone in a blink of an eye. I hope everyone had a great…
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College offers program for displaced workers
College of the Rockies is launching a program aimed at assisting displaced workers from the Canal Flats mill, Target store and other industries in the…
Canfor Canal Flats Sawmill closing Monday
Canfor announced to its Canal Flats Mill employees on Sept. 9 that the mill would be shutting down Nov. 9. As of tomorrow (Monday), after…
Working group establishing direction
An economic development working group is working on a plan to help Village of Canal Flats residents in light of the impending closure of the…
Message from the Mayor
By Mayor Ute Juras Village of Canal Flats The announcement by Canfor to permanently shut down the Canal Flats mill has come as a big blow…
Notes from City Hall
Career opportunities The City of Kimberley currently has four positions posted: Manager of Human Resources; Building Inspector; Lifeguard/Instructor II – Full Time; and Lifeguard/Instructor -Casual….
A crisis Canal Flats shouldn’t be forced to face
MLA Report By Norm Macdonald, Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA One of our Kootenay communities recently received a massive blow, affecting not just the Village of Canal…
COTR provides retraining for Canfor employees
College of the Rockies is providing retraining opportunities for employees of the Canfor Canal Flats Mill who have lost their jobs due to a downturn…
Questions need to be answered: mill workers
Letter to the Editor Canfor says one shift will be eliminated. “This reduction (from two shifts to one) will affect 81 Canal Flats-based employees, all…
Message from the Mayor – February
By Mayor Ute Juras, Village of Canal Flats Wow, it sure looks like spring has sprung! The one thing on everyone’s mind right now is,…