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Elk Falls Mill sale catches city hall by surprise A new industrial park on the former Catalyst mill site could create up to 600 jobs within three years in Campbell River, according to the buyer of the 400-acre industrial site. Harold Jahn, Edmonton-based owner and director of Pacifica Deep S e a Te r m i n a l s, signed an $8.6 mill i o n a g re e m e n t with Catalyst Paper to purchase the Elk Falls mill site. “We’ve had a lot of positive response from the community and we met with council. We met with the mayor and everybody’s Harold Jahn quite excited,” Jahn said Friday afternoon just outside city hall following a day of meetings. “We recently made an offer to purchase the Elk Falls site to (create) a deep sea terminal and an industrial park with 50 new tenants to create sustainable jobs for the community.” The sale is expected to close and become official on Sept. 5. That will complete Catalyst’s bid review process which began ear-
lier this year. Catalyst announced last Thursday it had reached an agreement with Pacifica. “We are very pleased to have attracted an experienced developer with the capacity and an industrial concept that will fully utilize the site’s infrastructure and bring new business and jobs to the region,” said Kevin J. Clarke, Catalyst president and chief executive officer. Catalyst had been seeking a buyer for its property since it permanently shut down its Elk Falls operation in 2010. Since then, equipment has been decommissioned and demolition work completed. According to Rivercorp CEO Vic Goodman, Jahn took everyone at city hall by surprise. “Harold flew in under the radar,” Goodman said. “They came into this thing in the eleventh hour in the bid process. Now we’re identifying him through (Thursday’s) press release.” Rivercorp had been working with Catalyst to try and attract Continued on A3
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Baby Skye Alexandra MacLean was “landed” at Painter’s Lodge Monday by mom Brett, dad Allan and sister Sidney. It is believed to be the first birth at the famous fishing lodge.
Catch of the day: seven-pound, six ounce baby girl BRIAN KIERAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Painter’s Lodge has dubbed this baby “the Catch of the Day” even though she weighed in Monday morning at just seven pounds, six ounces. The little keeper is Skye Alexandra, the “very
cute and slightly premature” second child of Quadra Island couple Brett and Allan MacLean. Skye was born in a rush at 8:28 a.m. in the “Pat Martin Bates Suite” at the famous fishing lodge. Brett, 27, said: “We had no time to think, no time to even consider calling for an ambulance. I did not Continued on A3
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