Well, the site is being prepared for the new Northern Store at Salluit. The old, old store that was moved to this location from Wolstenholm Island in Hudson’s Straight 50 or 60 years ago has been gutted along with half of our heated warehouse space. 
The reason for that is because our land area is limited and these buildings will have to come down to make room for the new plant. The electrician arrived yesterday and he’s already got two of the 4 panel boxes moved. 
After we close today we’ll cut power to the entire building and he’ll start on the preparation for relocating the main panel box. There is a power pole that will have to be relocated outside also and this will be a problem as all the power for the store, warehouses and dwellings comes off this one location.
Our ship with the materials for the new store itself will not be here before the 28th. They’ve had a lot of trouble with ice and only got away from Iqaluit a couple nights ago. Now he has to make 4 or 5 stops before he gets here and that’s OK as it just gives us that much more time to get the pad for the new building ready. The exciting and sad part will be early this coming week when the old buildings go under the bulldozer. There is a lot of history in one of those buildings but the old have to make room for the new, right? We’ll keep you posted as time goes on.
No comments:
Post a Comment