St. Albert Cheese Co-op to continue operations; residents wait to hear if fire impacted water quality
Posted Feb 5, 2013 04:45:56 AM.
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ST. ALBERT, On – Stakeholders at the St. Albert Cheese Co-op are speaking about their future plans after a fire destroyed the plant on Sunday.
The Board of Directors met on Monday and agreed to move their operations to another plant they own in Mirabel, Quebec.
They will select 15 to 20 employees to help with the production, which includes packing curds by hand, since the equipment is not the same as in St. Albert.
Operations will resume next week.
Meanwhile, they plan on rebuilding the St. Albert facility once the Fire Marshall’s investigation is done. It is expected to take up to a year to complete the new cheese factory.
Project Manager, Rejan Ouimet, said they lost their history in that fire. “We had lots of minute books – 118 years of files – and it’s all gone along with pictures of ancestors.”
He said the Cheese Curd Festival will go on this summer. It will be the 20th anniversary.
