Back in early 1972, I started with Powell River company as a employee. All the paper machines were running except numbers one and two.
I started casual on the paper machines and all over the mill, then went to the woodmill. The block loaders were in one department, then the logpond, where the cement ships held all the log booms and barge dumps [“Breakwater ship to become underwater reef,” June 22]. In big storms those cement ships saved our wood from breaking away.
The offloading department, where I retired from, had storms at times, too. It will be different to see those ships sunk.
Seeing them being used as a reef will be great for tourists and has been a long time coming. I hope this brings a lot to my hometown, where I was born and raised.
Clifford Lang
Gibsons, BC
