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July 6, 2020 2:22 pm
Published by Brelynn Howard
It’s that time of year when you start to wonder why the temperature is hitting 30 degrees and you realize “oh no, summer is half over”. That’s how I’ve felt this past week. I can’t believe that it’s already July and everyone is making the most of Canada’s birthday. I’ve had an interesting week in the field as I was given a new toy to reduce the risks of heat stroke associated with spending long days walking cut blocks.
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July 6, 2020 1:38 pm
Published by Ty Edwards
Oi welcome back to the next most exciting thing since video chats with your boss where he accidentally turned himself into a potato on zoom. Today I’m talking about the projects I’ve been assigned and a few projects I’ve assigned myself.
My blog will mention the use of HMIs and the PLC. In short, the HMIs are electronic display stations set around the mill that can be linked to different tags.
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June 25, 2020 12:05 pm
Published by Jaime Jacques
As this is the first entry of five in the Green Dream Intern 2020 series, I would like to take the opportunity to say that I am thankful for the chance to share my summer with everyone. In my first post, I will be introducing myself and sharing my path to this point with you.
Born and raised in Goulais River,
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June 25, 2020 11:52 am
Published by Julia Hollingsworth
Hello! My name is Julia Hollingsworth, and I am one of this year’s silviculture interns at Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie. Recently, I finished the first year of my Master of Forestry degree at the University of Alberta. After studying Biology at UNBC, I worked in Grande Prairie for a few years, so I am very happy to be able to do an internship in the place I call home.
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June 25, 2020 11:32 am
Published by Jordan Rock
Hello internet!
My name is Jordan Rock and I have been hired as a Woodlands Student by Tolko Industries for the summer of 2020. I am a recent graduate of Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Integrated Resource Management program and I plan to continue working towards a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Regina in the fall. During the summer of 2019,
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June 25, 2020 11:26 am
Published by Ty Edwards
Hello blog connoisseur, welcome to what is my green dream blog. In my first ever blog post, I want to highlight where I’ve been and where I am now, and how the forestry industry helped me become who I am today.
First things first, my name is Ty Edwards. I am an engineering student born and raised in Meadow Lake,
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June 24, 2020 5:43 pm
Published by Brelynn Howard
Hey everyone!
I am so excited and thankful for this opportunity to share with you my summer working experiences! For my first blog, I really want to give you an insight as to what kind of person I am, and why of everything else, I chose forestry in the first place!
My name is Brelynn Howard and I am currently working and living out of Thunder Bay Ontario.
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June 24, 2020 5:29 pm
Published by Lina Sbai
Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers,
My name is Lina and I’m a fourth year mechanical engineering student at the University of Ottawa. I feel very grateful for being selected to share my thoughts and experiences on this platform. It is truly a great opportunity to connect with people and to encourage and inspire others to share their own adventures.
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June 24, 2020 5:22 pm
Published by Arianna Loogman
What an amazing feeling it is to be able to be writing my first blog of the season for the second year in a row! I am so happy to have been given the opportunity to share my experiences this summer once again.
For this first blog I will be telling you a bit about myself, what I do at Mercer Peace River and giving an idea of the topics that I plan to be blogging about this summer.
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June 24, 2020 5:17 pm
Published by Jace Timmer
Hello readers, before I get into my very first blog ever, I would love to thank Forest Products Association of Canada for selecting and giving me the honour of being a 2020 Green Dream Intern Blogger.
I’m Jace Timmer, and in this blog, I will introduce you to myself and how I came to be in the forestry industry.
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August 27, 2019 10:01 am
Published by Gabriel Higney
Hey everyone,
For this post I’ll be sharing what I’ve been up to since the tree planters arrived on July 14th, 2019. Our last day of planting was August 7th, 2019.
I am a summer student for Sundre Forest Products, but my position is specific to silviculture (the growing and cultivation of trees).
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August 26, 2019 3:46 pm
Published by Calvin Jensen
Hello dear readers,
Alas, this shall be my last blog for the summer as my time with Al-Pac has come to an end. It has been a great summer and I am very thankful for all the great experiences I have had in the past couple months. It has been wonderful to get to know my team as well as the other summer students and learn about the forest industry hands on.
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August 26, 2019 1:42 pm
Published by Joshua Kranabetter
Ah yes. The summer project. A subject for focal practice. A diligence builder. A black hole for all the extra time and energy that the summer is so conducive to. Let me introduce you to the “Drummer Boy”, an electronics/programming amalgamation of rhythm, and my DIY project for the summer. It’s an 8-bit, 8 voice polyphonic, polyrhythmic, sample-based drum machine inspired by the iconic Roland 808 drum machine used in the production of tracks like “Paul Revere” by Beastie Boys and “Love Lockdown” by Kanye West.
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August 26, 2019 1:24 pm
Published by Dan Tran
I had meant to do so much more with this blog. I was thinking of posting a blog on the green end, a blog on the finishing end, a blog on the entire forming line, a blog on safety culture, one on the community, another on the general process creating OSB, some about the hiking trails in Edson, some interviews with some great friends of mine in the mill,
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August 14, 2019 12:02 pm
Published by Calvin Jensen
Long time no see readers,
Things have been bustling since the last time I wrote a blog. It is hard to believe that my time at Al-Pac is beginning to wrap up and summer is coming to an end. What little summer we had here in Alberta with the constant rain.
First things first,
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