Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Google street view April 06, 2021 - 6:00 PM Around 27 people are out of a job with the permanent closure of a Penticton wood products mill. The shutdown of Greenwood Forest Products was announced in a media release late last week by company president Wade Walker. The last day for most employees at the plant was Friday, April 2. A handful of employees will remain to help wind up the business and prepare for an auction. The company blamed the closure on rising lumber costs and a lack of wood supply over the past five years. The mill has been operating in Penticton since 1983.
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December 11, 2020 - 3:40 PM A Penticton woman will not serve any jail time and has been ordered to pay back the more than $62,000 she stole from the band after she pleaded guilty to forgery, fraud and falsifying documents. Band member Marnie Leslie Kruger, born in 1967, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of forgery, destroying or altering a book to defraud and fraud. Judge Monica McParland delivered her sentence to an empty courtroom in Kelowna yesterday, Dec. 10, speaking to Crown counsel Garry Hansen, defence lawyer Norm Yates and Kruger through video conference from the Penticton courthouse. Kruger’s charges stemmed from a period between Sept. 1, 2016 to July 1, 2017, when Kruger worked in the accounting department of the Penticton Indian Band’s SFLP forestry company. Police were called on July 6, 2017 when a company executive discovered evidence of fraud.