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By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 More investment in education will come for a building products company with a heavy presence in the Peace region. LP Building Solutions, a company with mills in both Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, announced during National Forest Products Week in Nashville, Tennessee that it will expand its partnerships with ForestryWorks and the First Nations Forestry Council on Wednesday, October 22nd. Founded in the 1970s, LP Building Solutions has had a presence in Dawson Creek with an oriented strand board (OSB) wood plant siding mill since 1987, which was converted into a siding plant in 2019, and an OSB mill in Fort St. John since 2005. ForestryWorks is part of the Forestry Workforce Training Institute, founded in… <\/p>\n

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By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 More investment in education will come for a building products company with a heavy presence in the Peace region. LP Building Solutions, a company with mills in both Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, announced during National Forest Products Week in Nashville, Tennessee that it will expand its partnerships with ForestryWorks and the First Nations Forestry Council on Wednesday, October 22nd. Founded in the 1970s, LP Building Solutions has had a presence in Dawson Creek with an oriented strand board (OSB) wood plant siding mill since 1987, which was converted into a siding plant in 2019, and an OSB mill in Fort St. John since 2005. ForestryWorks is part of the Forestry Workforce Training Institute, founded in... <\/p>\n

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