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Questions surround potential mill sale BRIAN KIERAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
where they attended to an injured motorcyclist.
Question marks are appearing beside the name of the Edmonton developer who has promised to buy the 400-acre Catalyst site, establish a new industrial park and create up to 600 jobs. Last week Harold Jahn, 42, owner of Pacifica Deep Sea Terminals, agreed to pay $8.6 million for the abandoned Elk Falls Mill site. The deal with Catalyst Paper is expected to close in one week. Now the Mirror has learned that at least two similar Alberta projects proposed by Jahn are not off the ground. And, one municipal official in the Athabasca region said: “It’s a good thing that your alarm bells are ringing.” On Monday Jahn countered, “It is frustrating working in the (Alberta) North…there’s a lot of gossip going around.” Catalyst CEO Kevin Clarke has praised Jahn as an experienced, job-creating developer, “with the capacity and an industrial concept that will fully utilize the site’s infrastructure.” In 2007, Athabasca County sold Jahn more than 30 acres that the developer promised to transform into a truck stop,
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Duck days of summer
The new venue for the Daybreak Rotary Club’s annual Quacker 5000 proved to be quite the hit for the hundreds who came out to Centennial Park and the outdoor pool on Sunday afternoon for the annual fun fundraiser. See more photos on Page A3.
Double trouble is no problem for searchers Search and rescue volunteers deserved double-double coffees after back-to-back events Saturday.
It started with members of Campbell River Search and Rescue locating two overdue hikers in the mountains of Strathcona
Park. And it ended on the way home when the volunteers were among the first at an accident scene
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