The Tuesday edition of the Vancouver Province turns its attention to Prince Rupert today, with a page A19 story about the soon to be built container port.
Promising to sign contracts any day now, Port CEO Don Krusel is suggesting up to 400 immediate jobs, including some in construction available to the local population and local sub trades.
The story traces the downturn of the region, the drop in population and the slump in housing prices that followed. In the story Krusel recounts the skepticism that the project was greeted with in the early days and how now everyone is on the bandwagon. In the article he expresses the belief that the new container port will be a huge economic engine, one that will employ more people than the pulp mill did at full employment.
Now if only somebody would put a shovel in the ground!
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