Help For Appvion Workers 11:56 pm The century old Appvion paper mill announced on Monday they were closing their doors, leaving employees surprised at the news, and the loss of their jobs in the next coming months. And local garage owner, Michael Walter says he wants to help ease the burden. “The community has been such a blessing to me that if I can be a blessing in return in any little way, I want I do that.” Walter says he too has faced hardships. “I work for the government and their failure to pass consist budgets on time it left my family in a bind a lot of times. On a government salary when money gets tight, and then they stop paying you and you have to still go to work what are you going to do you can’t sign up for unemployment or anything, so I started this garage to fill that gap.”