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Maintenance work to boost economy

Canton’s Evergreen Packaging mill’s is due for major maintenance this spring, bringing more than 1,000 contractors to the area to upgrade the mill.

The work is scheduled for the week of May 2, bringing people, and spending, to the Canton area. The value of work scheduled is around $20 million dollars and the influx of personnel is expected to bring $500,000 to the local economy.

The last large-scale maintenance outage at the Canton Mill was in April 2003.

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