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Country Bee Honey Farm Sweetens Up Saanich Peninsula Urban Goes a Little Country As Local Apiary Undergoes Brand Change
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AANICHTON - To bee, or not to bee. That was the question for husband and wife Lindsay and Jason Dault when they looked to open Country Bee Honey Farm. Formerly ca l led Urba n Bee Honey Farm, the south Island apiary has grown to become a l o c a l f a vo u r i te , re c e n t l y garnering both the 2018 Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit and the 2019 Grant Thornton LLP Vancouver Island Business Excellence Award for Food & Food Production. The apiary found its beginnings in 2009, starting as Twawassenbased Urban Bee Supplies. “ We o r i g i n a l l y o p e r a t e d out of a s t u d io i n t he ba c k of ou r house, where we sold beekeeping supplies for smallscale beekeepers in urban areas,” SEE COUNTRY BEE HONEY FARM | PAGE 16
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Transport Canada Green-Lights Berk’s Intertruck Island-Based Mechanics Acquire Rare Certification to Test, Inspect, and Repair Tankers and Trailers
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ANCOUVER ISLAND The wait is over! Transport Canada has officially approved Berk’s Intertruck’s Duke Point location as a recognized facility for testing, inspecting, and repairing highway tankers and trailers. According to the company’s general manager Dan Grubac, this new designation makes the Duke Point location one of two shops in the central Island that
are able to perform this level of government-approved inspection and repair. “It’s a specialized kind of business,” says Grubac. “Over the last twelve months, in addition to completing the vast amount of paperwork required by Transport Canada, we have been re-tooling our shop, training, and hiring new staff to prepare for the transition. As soon as we received the designation, we were ready to hit
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the ground running.” Berk’s Intertruck owner and president Brian Sabourin states that the certification process was a six-month-to-one-year endeavor. “There were hours and hours of paperwork, testing, and inspecting involved,” he remarks. “ We i nvested a lot of t i me, money, and effort into this project, and even hired an outside consultant to help us complete
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the process. The facility has to be state-of-the-art.” “What we are now certified to do is a specific process that needs to be followed step by step,” adds Grubac. “We’re testing for leaks, testing the wall thickness of the tanks, and visually inspecting components. It takes a long time for a person to become competent to do this job.” SEE BERK’S INTERTRUCK | PAGE 8