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Brett CULLEN/Special to the Free Press Team Canada first baseman Larry Balkwill swings at a pitch against USA-NWAAC during the opening game of the 2013 World Baseball Challenge, Tuesday evening at Citizen Field. The U.S. squad defeated the host Canadians 13-6 in the contest.
OK firm to build pre-fab WIDC components Joe Fries Black Press B.C.’s tallest wood building will be made with pre-fabricated components assembled in the South Okanagan. Structurlam Wood Products president Bill Downing said Tuesday his company was selected to supply the shell of the Wood Innovation and Design Centre in downtown Prince George. “That’s a secret, but not anymore,” he said. The company will provide structural components like beams and wall panels, and the first load of material is expected to be delivered to Prince George next month. Site work began this spring for the $25-million, six-storey building that’s meant to showcase B.C.’s cutting-edge wood construction and design techniques. The cross-laminated timber products that will be used for wall and floor panels are already being assembled at Structurlam’s plant in Okanagan Falls.
The facility just underwent a 930-square-metre expansion to house a new computer-controlled machine that can cut openings in the panels for windows and doors. Cross-laminated timber panels are made from lengths of two-bysix lumber that are finger-jointed and glued together to form slabs up to nine pieces thick. Steve Thomson, the minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations, visited the Okanagan Falls plant Tuesday to see Structurlam’s expansion first-hand. “They’re such an important partner in the industry and doing great things here in terms of building and adding value for the sector, and continuing to build jobs and economic development here in the South Okanagan,” Thomson said. The minister said his government is trying to strike a balance between maintaining strong prices for lumber manufacturers’ output and keeping finished wood affordable for value-added companies like Structurlam that use it as an input. Structurlam has 150 employees across its operations in Penticton, Oliver and Okanagan Falls.
Early Sunday morning the Prince George RCMP received a report of an assault with a weapon in the city. At approximately 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 11, officers were called to an address on Ruggles Street. While en route, police learned that the assault took place in Rainbow Park approximately 25 minutes earlier. The scene was located, but the suspect was not. A 19-year-old woman suffered a laceration to her head believed to have been caused by an edged weapon.
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Millar Addition air quality study calls for review Delynda Pilon newsroom@pgfreepress.com The results of study of volatile organic compounds in the air in the Millar Addition are in.
Terry Roberts, executive director of the Prince George Air Improvement Roundtable, said the B.C. Ministry of Environment chose the Millar Addition for testing because of the number of concerns expressed by locals about odour in the area, more so than in other Prince George neighbourhoods.
“The Millar Addition is the primary neighbourhood where the provincial government received the most complaints on the complaint line,” Roberts said. “So they went out and monitored it, working with residents to quantify
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