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Earth Day - Powell River Living
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Company green by design<br />
entrepreneurs combine knowledge and passion<br />
By Bud Gilham<br />
Everywhere you look these days you<br />
see “Green” products and “Green”<br />
programming. There are “Green” cookbooks,<br />
“Green” clothing and even “Green”<br />
pet products. But what does it mean to<br />
be “Green”? My search for going green<br />
led me to a Powell River couple and their<br />
home business.<br />
Polar Bear One Forestry Products is a<br />
small company started by a husband and<br />
wife team. Both were unemployed; both<br />
have health problems. They and their special<br />
needs child were at the mercy of government<br />
agencies and handouts for help,<br />
a situation they didn’t like and wanted to<br />
change. Limited education and limited resources<br />
fostered a path out for this local<br />
couple and they went back to something<br />
simple. Mick and Diane Boser combined<br />
their knowledge of working in the logging<br />
industry, with their joy of working with<br />
wood; they started a split cedar rail fencing<br />
business.<br />
Many local lakes in the Powell River<br />
area have been cleaned up; snags and<br />
sunken logs have been removed from<br />
the water. Many of these logs have found<br />
their way to a new and useful life as fencing<br />
material. Diane and Mick salvage<br />
logs from these lake cleanup operations,<br />
as well as shingle mill cast offs and hog<br />
piles. The logs are cut to length, split and<br />
then worked into the design the customer<br />
wishes. Looking through the album the<br />
Powell River couple has of their completed<br />
projects certainly verifies this variety.<br />
Save money. Save time. Save StreSS.<br />
Make the first choice, the right choice<br />
Jessica Hutton<br />
Interior Designer & Decorator<br />
www.designsbyjessica.ca<br />
Designer on Staff Saturdays 12 - 4 pm<br />
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE: Mick and Diane Boser have built a business turning old<br />
salvaged logs and sawmill cast-offs into beautiful new split-rail fences.<br />
On one project they used discarded blasted<br />
rock as posts. The cedar rails seemed<br />
to flow across the property through a<br />
string of large boulders. There are many<br />
styles of fencing and gates that can be<br />
made with reclaimed cedar and no preservatives.<br />
I asked the couple, “Why not<br />
Cork • Bamboo • Hardwood • Tile • Granite<br />
other types of fencing?”<br />
“There is pressure-treated wood and<br />
posts for fencing, but they are milled, not<br />
natural, and the preservative leaches into<br />
the soil. You are told not to use these posts<br />
near crops,” Mick stated. “All the wood<br />
we use is the other wood, what the mills<br />
Fred Pannell<br />
Operations Manager<br />
www.powellrivertile.com<br />
www.powellrivertile.com<br />
6797 Cranberry St • 604.483.2012<br />
Home Town Service, Worldwide Presence<br />
POWELL RIVER<br />
Independently Owned and Operated<br />
4545 Marine Ave<br />
1.877.485.2742<br />
604.485.2741<br />
www.remax-powellriver-bc.com<br />
email: remax-powellriverbc@shaw.ca<br />
Powell RiveR living • april 2010 • 7
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