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LAV sawmill sold

' NORTH VANCOUVER’ S last active sawmill has been sold
toa large Okanagan- based lumber marketing and manufac

turing company.

fficial : acquisition of iNova
‘umber Co. iLad. “py Tolko In-
dustries © Ltd. (was ‘announced
Monday. " : Wy
!. Tolko vice-president of market-
ing Bob’ Patterson said purchase of
the North' Vancouver cedar
sawmill was an integral part of
. Tolko's future expansion plans.
Nova, -he said; provided: Tolko
“with an ‘opportunity for product

: diversification and gave the com- |

pany an important foothold in-the
Lower Mainland: a i
, ‘We are looking. forward to
\ establishing our: presence in Van-
/couver,”* * Patterson said.

Prior to its Nova acquisition, the
! Vernon- based Tolko ‘employed a
"(otal of 1/100 people in sawmills in
~ Quesnel, jVernon, Kamloops, and

Merritt’ are a plywood pfant in ,

“Kamloops! .
Nova, which currently employs
170 people, has been on'th¢,
. Shore since it was founded, in 1950’
by, Ear! Noble. fteis the fea ’s last
operating sawmill, i
PY iterspn said there

5] Se plans; , to ‘change the |

North Vi ncouver’ sawmill’ '$opera-":

ich, like Tolko"s ¢ other

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North /

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

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mills, will be run ‘fas ‘ane

a

autonomous profit centre: ot
He declined to give the purchase

iprice paid for Nova, saying Tolko

was ‘‘a yery private company.”

Nova comptroller” Bob ‘Garries”
“has been ‘appointed Tolko’ § area,
manager for the North Nancouver .
“sawmill effective Monday.

Owned ‘and ‘operated by Noble
and his sons, Vic and Greg, prior
to Monday's. sale, Nova currently
produces 70 million feet .of cedar
lumber ‘annually and specializes in
production of; cedar’ isiding and
yeinch ce cedar boards.

; } 4 s - Wednesday, ‘June iF 1088, -

to Vernon. based firm

an one time there were approx:
imately 25 sawmills on’the North
Shore. LAK Lumber / previously :
the only other surviving mili: in
North: Vancouver, [filed \ for,
bankruptcy i in March 1984;

Noble. said ‘Tuesday he and ‘his
sons decided to sell Nova, betause
“38 years ‘is.a long time. People

| came: along’ who wanted to but
"and it just ‘seemed, like’ the right
“time.”

He said he Toresaw no employes
layoffs: or immediate changes to

‘the mill's operation as a result 9

thesale. %. |

Nova survived as
Mohicans”, Noble said, ‘because’
we were good operators, and there

was no reason not to suryive.’ n i\
: .

He added that the Nobles will,
take a small break and then’

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