Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-10-05
issued: 1983-01-12
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note: wimvfiwviim wmu '.^:,.'.^\,,~,..,,,:,....v.. j'V.'^ LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES "SKUNKED" BYYANKS 4& : .legislative library Parliament Buildings .Victoria B C' V?V 1X4 JAK83 120 jobs exported to U.S SUMAS, Wash. - A business now under construction here win be providing employment for about 120 American workers. ':..•.• , Why is this newsworthy to,a Canadian citizen living in the Fraser Valley? our leaders may ask.'. v ■';'.; Well, it is a Canadian business, and it is relocating: from Mission City - not to Abbotsford, . Matsqui or Lanelev - but to this small, quiet border town in Whatcom county, '?*.; Larry Pouison, president of Roto-Matic food Systems Inc., started his company in Mission three years ago, but has now decided to move to "greener pastures", taking with hun the 120 job opportunities. '/■■ ,,.-. '■'.' Company manufactures a com: mercial oven which 46-year-old Pouison claims will "break loose., like (tie Pac-Man video game." Roto-Matic's new 10,400 square foot plant is expected.to be completed .this. week.. It is located at the city limits just west of town and adjacent to Front Street,' .-, i: }'-: •" ■ When it opens later this month it will employ 40 people, but the workforce will' increase substantially during the next 12 months, according to Pouison. Future growth plans, for' another 10,400 square foot building on the company's eight-acre site are already in the making; Hr V Plant foremen and managers are being hired now. The workers to be hired will be doing electrical assembly work '6ii' the .stainless steel oven shells manufactured in Korea and shipped here via Seattle. Workers will all be hired, locally. ■ , • Oven is the culmination of three years and $2-mUlion spent on research and development, Gloucester under scrutiny MURRAYVILLE - Planners and, engineers in the municipal hall here are currently busy, scanning through a "series of reports'" they have received from Gloucester Properties. Reports detailing various aspects of the long-planned fraser Ind…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0421160
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text