January 19, 2023
AFDE Employees Step up!
Anndrea Kellestine and Lee Reid dropped off over $500 worth of Feminine Hygiene products, as well as an additional $200 in cash from the Survey department. Anndrea took the time to educate her...
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January 6, 2023
AFDE & Partner Unions Support Local Fort St. John Charities
Pictured left to right: Scott Marshall (AFDE Project Director), Konrad Tarry (IUOE Business Rep), Chris Mansel (LiUNA! Business Rep), Craig Ebeling (CMAW Head Steward) This is our 5th Holiday...
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December 12, 2022
Featured Face: Alexandra Logigan – Senior Field Engineer; Intakes & Penstocks
Alexandra Logigan is from the Transylvania region in Romania. She and her husband Octavian (who works for Eagle Vision Video in FSJ – the company tasked with documenting our progress through...
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September 20, 2022
Featured Face: Ed Smith – Carpenter, General Foreman – Intakes & Penstocks
Ed Smith was born and raised in the village of Old Masset at the North end of Graham Island on Haida Gwaii. He and his wife Alexa – a Registered Massage Therapist who currently stays at home...
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August 22, 2022
Featured Face: Badr Rankousi – Senior Engineer, Powerhouse
Badr Rankousi started with AFDE in June of 2019 as a Field Engineer in the Powerhouse. Today he is the Senior Engineer in the Powerhouse. Badr grew up in Syria, and after High School began studying...
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June 14, 2022
Featured Face: Maxwell Spurn – Rigger, Headworks
Although he grew up in Quesnel and Kelowna, Maxwell Spurn is a long-term resident of Fort St. John. For seven years he was a Technician at an Oilfield Services Company. He specialized in fusing...
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May 5, 2022
Spotlight: Mistahiya Contracting
Mistahiya (“Grizzly” in the Cree language) Contracting is a business owned by Dwayne and Carmen Richter, based in Moberly Lake, BC. As Saulteau First Nations members, Dwayne and Carmen grew up...
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May 5, 2022
Spotlight: North Cariboo Air
As the name implies, North Cariboo Air has its roots in BC’s North Cariboo Region – the company was incorporated in Williams Lake in 1957. Together with Joint Venture partner Bailey Helicopters,...
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May 5, 2022
Featured Face: Kory Wealick, Superintendent, Headworks
Kory Wealick has been with AFDE since September of 2019, starting as a Field Engineer at the Intakes, shortly after concrete at Units 1, 3, & 6 had begun. As the segment grew, he took on more...
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February 5, 2022
Featured Face: Chris Lepage, Labour Foreman, Intakes
Chris grew up just North of Toronto in Orangeville, Ontario. In early 2019 he ventured West to take a “remote” job in Tsawwassen, answering the call to help an associate who had a contract to...
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