A Campbell River family had two choices – to stay or go – and they chose to stay.
In 2008, when Catalyst Paper’s Campbell River pulp and paper mill shut down and the logging industry took a sharp downturn, Eduardo Arriaza and his brother-in-law, James Lethbridge, lost their jobs.
With families to support, they could either find work elsewhere and split up their extended family, or they could stay in town and do something different.
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