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Williams Lake RCMP Const. Joel Kooger leads members down Borland Street toward the Cenotaph at city hall as part of the Remembrance Day services in Williams Lake Tuesday. There was an extra police presence this year including working uniformed officers looking for anything out of the ordinary on the streets and in the crowd during the ceremony.
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Layoffs announced for Mount Polley Mine Monica Lamb-Yorski Staff Writer Mount Polley Mine began handing out layoff notices to 36 of its employees on Remembrance Day, effectively reducing its workforce by 11 per cent. The first layoff letters went out to crews as they arrived for their shifts Tuesday morning. Remaining letters were handed out throughout the day, Imperial
Metals vice-president of corporate affairs Steve Robertson told the Tribune. “We will have 294 full-time employees remaining on the job. No trades will be laid off in this round. They are mostly truck drivers. Nine of them are driller positions.” Most of the layoffs will affect unionized employees who will be able to bump with seniority, he added.
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Meanwhile, Robertson indicated for the first time to media that the company is hoping for an early restart. The company has put a plan on the table for an early restart that won’t include the use of the tailings impoundment, he said. “We originally didn’t think the restart using anything other than the tailings impoundment would be economic but we have some ideas that we’re trying to follow.”
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The plans haven’t been fully formulated, but the company is working “really hard” to examine every option for a restart, he said. “I don’t want to get into any specifics because there are still a lot of details to iron out. I think it’s fair to say we are very interested in pursuing a restart of operations that makes sense for everyone.” See MOUNT Page A3
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