Quesnel Project Creates a Dozen Jobs
By 250 News
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 03:54 AM
Quesnel, B.C. – The Job Opportunities program has provided $130,000 to Quesnel for trail maintenance and hazard tree removal in Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park. The project will create immediate employment.
"This funding is in addition to $33,000 for previous work at Ten Mile Lake provincial park” says Pat Bell, Minister of Forests and Range.
The funding will help employ 12 workers for three months.
The crew of workers, led by Rider Cheyne Consulting, is working on the clean-up and disposal of dead pine trees within Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park. This will make the trails safe and accessible for all visitors to the park. Workers will also put down
woodchips along 1100m of the trail and construct 50m of log snake fence to visually enhance the trail and restrict access to snowmobiles from an adjacent road onto the groomed ski trail.
"I am thrilled that this employment opportunity has been provided to our residents," said Quesnel Mayor Mary Sjostrom. "The employment that the Job Opportunities Program has created is a welcome boost to our economy and I hope this program will continue to provide the much needed economic support that northern British Columbia needs."
The Job Opportunities Program was first announced in May 2008 as one component of the federally-funded $129-million Community Development Trust. In July 2009, the government of Canada and Province of British Columbia each committed up to an additional $30 million towards the program.
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Posted by: nu2PG on August 12 2009 10:49 AM
I have friends visiting from Kamloops, that city used the money from the gov't to create expanded recycling. They now have curbside pick-up of recycling and expanded facilities to handle the material and have created 18 perm. jobs. They don't even have to sort the recycling materials. I think that is that is a winning program, both for jobs and the environment.
Recycling here takes alot more effort and time and is limited.
Prince George needs to look at these kinds of opportunities