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| Lunenburg/Queens Transition Leader Ron Smith |
The recently-created Lunenburg-Queens Community Transition Team is on its way to finding ways of filling the economic gap left when Bowater Mersey closed almost 2 weeks ago.
Former financial executive Ron Smith is heading up the team. He says he and his group will be spending the summer months, meeting with community and business leaders and Lunenburg and Queens residents who have ideas. In an interview, he tells us smaller industries, reliant on forestry, will likely be the key to the industrial future of the area. However, Smith says the pulp mill itself is likely history. Other aspects of the forest industry will figure prominently in the future.
The Transition Team will have its website up and running sometime next week, its Liverpool and Bridgewater offices fully functional and toll-free numbers will be established.
Ron Smith believes recommendations will be ready late in the summer and in government hands.
