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EACOM Timber Corporation recently announced that its employees have chosen to donate the money normally spent on a holiday celebration to local charities and food banks.
Each site of operation selected a community organization and a donation equivalent to $20 per employee was made for a total of almost $25,000.
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“This year has brought some unique challenges, especially to community organizations, who could not hold their usual fundraising activities,” said EACOM president Kevin Edgson.
“As an essential industry, we have been able to continue to be an economic driver while safeguarding staff and suppliers. It is our privilege to share our good fortune with those in need.”
EACOM employees make donations
EACOM Timber Corporation has announced its employees have chosen to donate the money normally spent on a holiday get together to local charities and foodbanks.
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Each site of operation selected a community organization and a donation equivalent to $20/employee was made for a total of close to $25,000.
Employees of the Timmins mill donated to the Timmins Food Bank, while those in Gogama chose the Children’s Chrismas and their colleagues in Elk Lake went with the Christmas Wish in New Liskeard.
Kshama Ranawana Environmentalists, Conservationists and the political opposition are strenuously objecting to the decision by the government to hand over the management of “Other State Forests (OSF)” to Divisional/Districts Secretaries alleging the move would be disastrous for the forest cover and biodiversity in the country.
It was in July this year that the Cabinet first mooted the idea of handing the management of these lands earlier referred to as “State Residual Forests” by abolishing circular 05/2001 which had transferred the management of these lands from the Divisional/District Secretaries to the Forest Department.
The July Cabinet decision was forwarded to the then Minister of Environment to study the matter and present a mechanism that could vest such lands back with the Divisional/District Secretaries, so they could be released for “economically productive purposes.”