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PASSING
THE TEST

One of B.C.’s
largest forest

Saturday, March 7, 1992

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companies has
successfully
completed a test
run of chlorine-
free pulp at the
second of three
large pulp mills.
Canadian Forest
Products Ltd. ran
the test at its
Intercontinental
pulp mill in
Prince George
last weekend,
joining a select
few companies
worldwide to
respond to
growing calls in.
Europe for more
environmentally-
friendly pulp.

LANDING
A BIG ONE

Surrey-based
Innovac
Technology Inc.
says it has
shipped the
world’s largest
fish pump to a
fish meal
processing plant
in Chile. The
Transvac 6725
was based on
the company’s
earlier line of
Transvac pumps
and has a
pumping
capacity of 300
tonnes of fish per
hour. The
pump's twin
tanks each hold
6,229 litres and
measure 4.7
metres high.

AWAITING

TAKE OFF

The company
that makes most
of the world’s
jetliners believes
the airline
industry has
started to bounce
back after a year
of “horrendous”
losses. Boeing
Commerecial
Airplane Group
said Wednesday
the U.S.
economy has
“bottomed out”
and predicts
North American
a c =
recover to a four-

Wilf Sweeney
looks back at a
career in the
pulp and paper

industry -

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER
t must have been fate
[e= dictated where Wilf
Sweeney would be born.

“In that aspect, I’ve always
been. associated with pulp
mills,” he said.

The former general manager
of the Celgar Pulp Co.,
Sweeney’s birthplace was
Dryden, Ont., a pulp town that
sits about halfway between
Winnipeg and Thunder Bay on
the Trans-Canada Highway.

From the day he was born to
the day he retired last month,
Sweeney has spent most of that
time around a pulp mill.

Although his isn’t a story of
family roots that go back many
generations in the mill,
Sweeney said he was conscious
of the goings-on at a pulp mill.

“I certainly was aware of
what they did,” he said.

After spending life through
high school in Dryden, Sweeney
said good-bye to his family and
Ontario and headed west to
B.C.

He hooked up with CP Rail,
and worked the line between
Field and Kamloops installing
telegraph poles.

But through dissatisfaction
with management, he left the
railroad and headed to
Vancouver, eventually landing a
job with Brittania Mining and
Smelter. c

It was there that the young
Sweeney did some _ soul
searching, and whether a mine
was really where he belonged.

“That really got me
thinking,” he said. “Mines have
a finite life, when the ore runs
out that’s it.”

So, rather than worry about
what would happen when the
ore did run out, Sweeney made
a decision.

“I thought I’d better get back
to school,” he said, and returned
| to Dryden in January of 1948.

His timing couldn’t have been
better, as a disaster at the mine
shortly after he left claimed the
lives of three co-workers in his

sector.
With his thoughts set on an
engineering career, Sweeney

Settling into retirement

than they were in 1952.

With a career in the pulp and paper industry now be’

his golf game. Though his years in the business numbered 40, he says things today aren't much different

Vee.

hind him, Wilf Sweeney has a lot more time to work on

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made plans to attend either the
University of B.C. or University
of Toronto.

But before there would be
any post-secondary education,
he had some_ unfinished
business to take care of at high
school.

“I managed to screw up my
last year,” he said, adding that
he was a couple courses short of
graduating.

ith that taken care

of, Sweeney was

accepted into the U
of.T, and emerged in the spring
of 1952 with a Mechanical
Engineering degree and a
fiancee.

Sweeney took the two to
Trois-Rivieres, Que., where he
started work at the
Consolidated Paper mill—

His stay in La Belle Province
lasted until 1960, the same time
the Cellanese Corporation of
America was opening a new mill

—in-a place
the. rest is history.

Sweeney started out as a
project engineer, and climbed
the corporate ladder until 1975,
when he became general
manager.

“I never set out to be the

called Castlegar, and_

general manager,” Sweeney
said. “Every time there was an
opening, I said I'd give it a try.”

“It worked out reasonably
well.”

His stay at the top lasted for
14 years, in which he saw both
good and bad times.

“The pulp industry is noted
for its ups and downs,” he said.
“We went through periods of
relative prosperity and we went
through periods where we were
barely able to keep our heads
above water.”

During the later of his 40
years in the business, Sweeney
worked as both the GM of the
mill and the modernization
project.

But with only so much time
to do either job, he found that
wearing two hats was too much.

“I was spending most of my
time in Vancouver, where you
couldn’t do both jobs,” he said.

He chose to focus his
attention on the modernization,

he said.

And when that task was
taken care of, Sweeney put
himself out to pasture.

“I might just as well retire,”
he said, though he is still quite
involved in the project.

‘ow, four decades after

joining the industry,

Sweeney says things
really aren’t that different today
than in 1952. :

“I don’t think there’s been a
heckuva lot of change,” he said,
adding that the greening of
Mother Earth is: more pressing
today.

“The biggest change is the
environmental concerns,” he
said. “They’re certainly far
greater than they were 40 years
ago.”

With a basement that needs _

an overhaul and an RV ready
for the road, Sweeney says he
won’t have any trouble keeping
busy.

And though his years in the

and handed the reigns to the
mill to Jim Browne in December
of 1989.

“My job as general manager
of the modernization was to see
the pulp mill’s needs were
incorporated into the design,”

business presented him witha
great many questions that
needed answers, Sweeney says
there is one thing he can’t
answer.

“I really don’t know where ~
the name Celgar came from.”

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17 Notices

CRAFT supplies, craft classes,
knitting machine club at the Craft
Corner. 365-5801. (8/18)

33 Lost

SMALL two-year-old neutered
male orange tabby cat lost
downtown near Kinsmen Park.
Reward offered. 365-2483, 365-
8434, leave message. (4/19)

LADIES black wallet lost by
Taylors Place Restaurant —

Friday, Feb. 28. Reward. 365-
3265. (4/18)

36 Found

SKI-doo key at Mudd Lake. Owner
may-claim- at Castlegar News.
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76 Childcare Wanted

BABYSITTER required, my home,
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7064. (4/19)

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WANTED: POKER PLAYERS.
Open Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday, 7 p.m. 365-3752.
(8/19)

WAITRESS for day — shift,
experienced only. Apply in person
after 2 p.m. The Greek Oven, 400
Columbia. (4/18)

SECURITY screening guards to
work rotating day-shifts, weekends
included. Full training provided.
Must be bondable. Submit resume
by March 10 to: R.R.#1, Site 2, C-
7, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3H7. (2/18)

126 Work Wanted

CARPET, lino and subfloor
installations, repairs, etc. 30 years
experience. George, 365-5127.
(4/19)

WILLING TO to cut lawns, do
yardwork. 365-7064. (12/19)

CARPENTER/HANDYMAN_ —
Doors, decks, drywall, roofing,
repairs, clean-up. Free estimate,
guaranteed work. John, 365-5428.
(8/16)

WILL DO OFFICE CLEANING.
359-7187. (9/17)

WILL do spring clean-up with truck
or small jobs on part-time
basis.Ph. 359-7187. (9/17)

EARL'S CARPENTRY — Houses,
renovations, concrete, painting,
swimming pools, liners, chemical

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_of Silk Flowers.

Home Improvements

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292 Tree Services

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THE FAR SIDE

By GARY LARSON

ALMOST AS
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Hospitals to avoid

351 Pets

400 Furniture

THREE Shepherd cross puppies.
Males, two have brindled coloring.
399-4381. (3/19)

NOW taking orders for PB
Chinese Shar Pei puppies. Ph.
365-2483/ business 365-8434.
(4/18)

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Antiques

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373 Appliances

RE-CONDITIONED fridges,
stoves, washers, dryers,
dishwashers. Call collect — Apple
City Furniture, Kelowna, 862-5103.
Free weekly delivery to the
Kootenays. (tfn.59)

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376 Auctions

LOVESEAT and couch and
recliner, rust color, excellent
condition. Paid $1,700. Will sell for
$800. Ph. 365-3837. (tfn/79)

8-PIECE solid wood bedroom
suite, $850 firm. 365-6870. (4/19)

403 Garage Sales

MISCELLANEOUS toys, antiques.
3112-5th Avenue, Sunday, March
8, 10 a.m.-noon. (19)

MOVING — Appliances and misc.
March 7 & 8. Third house down
from China Creek Shell Station, 9
a.m.-3 p.m. (2/18)

406 Equipment

2 JOHN Deere. backhoes 4x4's,
950B, 966C, 966D and 966E
loaders, 740 Champion grader
with snowing, single and tandem
dump trucks, street sweeper, belly
dumps and pups, 1987 455 case
track loader, Bantam grade-all.
Call Vic 493-6791. (8/18)

412 Misc for Sale

8 FT. split cedar posts $2 ea.,
woodstove (Dorwood) $200 OBO,
6" jointer/planer (Beaver Rockwell)
sectional couch $250, kitchen
table/chairs 16-18 cu. ft. deep
freeze $175 OBO. 365-5948.
(4/18)

spas — reasonable — work
guaranteed. 365-8355. (tfn/98)

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333 Feed & Hay
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with barn and water for horses or
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PREMIUM black loam topsoil, 50
loads. Best around. $200 per load.
365-6382. (4/19)

WINDOW -— Fixed double glazed
63" x 45 1/2". $125 Phone 365-
3305 after 6 p.m. (tin/79)

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