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Man missing, female rescued By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
A female was rescued from a truck that was flipped and floating in the Morice River early last Tuesday. RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose says she was sitting in the window of the floating truck when she was seen by several Houston people on their way to work. After calling 9-11, the locals threw a rope to the stranded female and pulled her to shore. The 46-year old male who was driving the truck is still missing. RCMP Sgt. Rose says the crash allegedly happened close to 3 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30. At 5:24 a.m., the locals saw the truck and called 9-1-1. Ambulance, fire and police responded
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to the accident 23 kilometres up the Morice River Road. They immediately called in Search and Rescue from Houston and Smithers to look for the missing male driver. The female was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, Sgt. Rose said.
A truck flipped into the Morice River last Tuesday, over 23 kilometres down the Morice River Road. The female passenger was rescued by locals, but the male driver is still missing. Photo submitted
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Canfor finishing $35 million in Houston mill upgrades By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
Canfor is finishing $35 million in upgrades to the Houston sawmill. The upgrades improve employee safety and combustable dust management, and give energy conservation, cost reduction and better productivity.
C a n f o r Communications Officer Corinne Stavness says they started upgrades in July 2013 and are nearly complete, with all the major projects finished early this year. They rebuilt the planer and put in cyclones and a suction system for dust extraction.
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mill. They installed a new Dabarker dust extraction system in the mill, and put LED
lighting in both the sawmill and planer. They built a woodlands fire equipment and mobile
equipment storage building, upgraded rail lines, sawmill software and the local area network. Stavness says they also spent $2.8 million in mobile equipment replacement. This included eight new forklifts, a zoomboom, man lift, three yard trucks, a snow plow/sanding truck and a skid steer and
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