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Tembec gets Cranbrook mill site set for sale The forestry company is cleaning up the site by testing for soil contamination and demolishing buildings damaged by fire so it can be used for another purpose
S A LLY MAC D ON AL D Townsman Staff
Tembec is working to remediate the site of its decommissioned sawmill and planer mill in Cranbrook’s industrial area. After being shut down in 2010, the planer mill remained standing until it was destroyed by a fire last November. Since then, Tembec has been working to clean up the site of the planer mill, and continues to do remediation work throughout the 38-hectare property. Earlier this month, the forestry company received $94,288 from the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to
conduct testing on the property, looking for contamination by hydrocarbons – oil products. The funding means Tembec can continue the testing it started on the site last year, which was forced to a halt when the fire hit. “We had done a significant amount of site assessment – which typically involves drilling holes, soil samples, air samples, water samples – across the spectrum of the site to see if there are any deposits there that should be of concern,” said Dennis Rounsville, Tembec’s president of the forest products group.
See TEMBEC , Page 3
GERRY FREDERICK PHOTO
THEY AIN’T HEAVY, THEY’RE MY GREBLINGS: It’s the season for the young grebes down at Elizabeth Lake in Cranbrook. The youngsters get a bird’s eye view of their environment from their parents’ back while patrolling the waters.
IN COURT
Sentencing may run long in conspiracy case Three Cranbrook men convicted over murder conspiracy may not be sentenced this week as a Kamloops hearing continues
TOW N S M A N S TA F F
Three Cranbrook men charged over a conspiracy to murder a local drug rival may not learn their sentence until next week. Colin Correia, Lonnie Adams and Lorne Carry were found guilty in April of
conspiracy to commit murder and a lesser charge, counselling an indictable offence not committed. It wrapped up a threemonth trial held in Kamloops. The jury took four days to reach their verdict. During the trial, Crown
prosecutors outlined how Adams was at the top of the hierarchy in a Cranbrook gang, and he supervised Correia and Carry. A feud between their gang and a rival drug gang in Cranbrook escalated in October 2009 after a non-fatal
shooting outside the Sam Steele Hotel in Cranbrook. According to the Crown’s case against Adams, Correia and Carry, the group then began to plan to murder the head of the rival gang, Doug Mahon. However, a man they
contracted to carry out the murder, John Garry Shank, was arrested in Cranbrook in November 2009 for breaking parole conditions. While in custody, Shank agreed to become a police agent in the conspiracy case. His testimony, along with
transcripts of telephone calls and text messages, became key evidence in the case. Adams, Correia and Carry were arrested in Cranbrook in November 2010.
See SENTENCING, Page 3