Production Increase at Peninsula Plywood
In the past month, Peninsula Plywood has more than doubled production. And the company has added about thirty new employees.
Three weeks ago PenPly received $212,000 from the state Department of Commerce and $230,000 from investors. PenPly President Josh Renshaw said:
“We have the capacity, we have the orders.”
Three weeks ago PenPly received $212,000 from the state Department of Commerce and $230,000 from investors. PenPly President Josh Renshaw said:
“We have the capacity, we have the orders.”
posted by Tom Harper at 8:53 AM
52 Comments:
Good news! I hope they can continue on the path to prosperity. There are certainly some good workers around here. Go Peninsula Plywood! Go Port Angeles!
What a bunch of happy crap. I assume that some of the gifted public money went to a politically well connected public relations firm who will continue to churn out more of such phony news releases until the day PenPly closes and leaves the taxpayers on the hook for all the unpaid debts.
PenPly President Josh Renshaw said:“We have the capacity, we have the orders.”
And they have significant continued unpaid debt. Paying slightly more than minimum wages.
Another fluff piece from the PDN.
From the PDN comments section:
Posted by valarie andersen on Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 8:11 am Pacific Time. (report abuse)
This story makes no sense to me. As a former purchasing agent for K-Ply, I know basically how much it cost to run every departments within that mill. A amount of $212,000.00 is not enough to drag them out of the hole and all of a sudden be making any kind of profit. There are a lot of holes in this story and the truth was stretched more then one can imagine. Grant Munro wants the mill to make it because he needs the ring barker and log yard for his own personally gain, the logs in the log yard are not Pen Ply's, they buy their veneer.
This whole story is a smoke screen ??
Well, I don't know, but it seems to me that they just keep afloat because of new infusions of cash.
We'll see what things look like six months from now.
"What a bunch of happy crap."
No kidding. I read the story, and was just shaking my head. Talk about putting a positive spin on a tragedy.
Obviously, some folks think the happy crap is great. "Yeah, the car has a great color, doesn't it?" Never mind that it has serious underlaying mechanical problems, and is a death trap.
and another $230,000 from its investors.
I'm curious about these investors, I suspect that they just put up some money on short term loans and expect the money back soon from present orders, and with a good interest rate.
Investors do not lend money on low rates, generally speaking.
No, really, this GOOD NEWS!!!!
Oh, you Negative Gnats and you Pessimistic Possums spreading your DOOM and GLOOM and negative vibes. Shame on YOU!!!!
Those Chipper Chipmunks and those Ambitious Ants at Pen-Ply are smiling and happy, thinking of a better future for themselves and the company they work for. They're spreading positive vibrations of universal goodwill and happiness and prosperity which will change Port Angeles and revitalize our community!
If you can't see that I suggest you go for a refreshing bike ride or walk your dog or help a little old lady across the street.
"I suggest you go for a refreshing bike ride or walk your dog or help a little old lady across the street"...excellent post 1:48, I can see postive energy is having it's way with you.
What ever you do, don't stop posting. You make an great foil for the on going discussion of positive thinking and good humor and their effects on a community.
And speaking of foil, you may want to invest in a new roll of Reynolds. I think it is time for you to craft a new helmet. We don't want you to get over-exposed to positive energy.
I'd say good news, but the market sounds very cyclical. Hopefully they'll pull through, pay off creditors and become viable. I think the best thing to do here is wait and see.
I think that Randall C. Page should get a foil hat, said person reminds me of Mary Poppins.
Just who is Randall C. Page anyway? Just a made up name as far as I can tell, there's no useful information in the blogger profile and no such person in the phone book.
Let's strip that down.
Randall C. Page can translate to Randall See Page of cheery crap and puts his own polish on it, for what reasons I don't know.
It's like the name Harrison Fyrre translates to Hair Is On Fire.
There sure is a lot of bullshit on the Internut.
Good news! I hope they can continue on the path to prosperity.
Let me know when they are paying over twenty bucks an hour, maybe I'll apply for a job there.
BBC said...
I think that Randall C. Page should get a foil hat, said person reminds me of Mary Poppins.
........
Yeah. Kinda like one of those annoying cheerleader types we used to dunk in the toilet in high school.
I don't understand why he shows up here, and trys to get us all to look at the world the way he wants us to. If we don't, then he thinks it is okay to be what he says we shouldn't be.. an asshole! WTF?
He should start his own blog. "Happy Crap Cheerleaders for Port Angeles". The local paper will propbably advertize for him.
So they'll be rehiring all those people they laid off last month, right?
Look at all the logs piled up at Pen Ply bound for China! Could somebody get to the bottom of whether Grant Munro LLC is paying rent to the Port for using the property as a log yard? Or, maybe Munro is "subleasing" the log yard space from PenPly, allegedly paying PenPly the rent, and the sub-leasing rent constitutes his "investment" in PenPly for purposes of qualifying PenPly to get the half million dollar grant?
This whole linkage between Munro LLC, PenPly, and the grant of public money to PenPly seems pretty suspicious.
"This whole linkage between Munro LLC, PenPly, and the grant of public money to PenPly seems pretty suspicious."
I agree. But, don't look to the PDN to do any investigative reporting.
We all remember Grant Munro sitting on the City Council with Larry Williams and Karen Rogers. Need I say more?
Reading todays' article about the logs stacked up, waiting to be shipped off to China, it is interesting to see Munro say the "Gold Rush" is over. That the log market is softening. That, in their wisdom, the log suppliers flooded the market, resulting in a dropping of the price.
I think "WTF?" predicted this a short while ago, on this blog.
Hey Anon. 8:28 AM, July 11, 2011:
You've basically got it right. He's also "investing" his so-called "expertise" and PenPly is reporting that (for the purposes of the grant requirements) as being, essentially, equal to a cash investment.
Gee, who ever knew that an hour of Grant Munro's time was worth $500?
BBC, this is the 21st century. We use search engines not phone books.
Your blogs reference "spirituality" and yet you post here about using guns and knives to intimidate rowdy teenagers. That seems a little out of place to me.
My post on this blog are designed to balance out the amonymous negativity expressed regarding Port Angeles. I have used concrete suggestions and reasonable questions. I have also used humor that may be a bit pointed, but never crude. My responses to the nega-mice have been fair and open.
Think things over while you are cleaning your gun BBC.
"Kinda like one of those annoying cheerleader types we used to dunk in the toilet in high school."
Very classy stuff there. Did you do that anonymously?
I support you Randall! Anybody who actually offers some decent ideas and reasonable commentary that is not exclusivly "Debbie Downer" (hysterical, negative tripe not supported by any facts), makes this blog better!
Your blogs reference "spirituality" and yet you post here about using guns and knives to intimidate rowdy teenagers.
I'm not Jesus, just an evolving spiritual being having a fucked up human experience here. Jesus was an idiot, should have carried protection.
Anyway, those logs are in the PenPly yard but bound to China? Silly me, I thought they were stock for the mill.
Mr. Page, I wouldn't say the folks above are being negative as much as they are simply stating reality.
BTW, there's a place for artists, it's called Port Townsend.
Randall, what brought you from Minnesota to Port Angeles?
You're 64. Are you the elder of your hippie tribe? Did you go to Woodstock or Haight Ashbury? Were you a Hare Krishna?
BBC, this is the 21st century. We use search engines not phone books.
Using a search engine to look for you is not near as productive and using one to look for Billy B Cook, just saying.
2:30, Thanks for the support. Without exception all the people I have met here in Port Angeles have been bright, friendly and positive. When I saw the posts here by the Anonymous, "Debbie-downer" they really stood out. You know what they say about bullies, just stand up to them and they wither. This one certainly has.
5:24, I actually drove right around the crowd at Woodstock and my friends and I went on to Nova Scotia. Great people and food up there. Good photo ops too.
I did live in San Francisco in the '70s, but I was working so I missed out on being a Hippy. That was the period when I shot Carlos Santana's 8th album cover.
Hare' Krishna, no...I am a Taoist.
I came to P.A. to help a friend get a house together. I think it is a remarkable little city!
BBC, I know you are not a bad guy. I have been a hunter all my life and I appreciate the spiritual nature of the gun. But, there are limits for me and the bit about the kids and the pier was one of them. Let's leave it at that.
The artsy fartsy types hopes for good economy's so they can sell the crap they screw around making, I don't buy their crap, I shop at hardware stores and Home Depot, I hope they can live with that.
But, there are limits for me and the bit about the kids and the pier was one of them. Let's leave it at that.
First, it was just talk, but if you let it go on they become future thugs so you need to nick that in the bud.
Second, I wouldn't get on any of them unless they were in my face or in the face of others.
Then I would, we deserve our peace, dammit.
I did live in San Francisco in the '70s, but I was working so I missed out on being a Hippy.
I was a service manager in a Ford dealership, wore a suit a lot and thought I was an important shit, square as hell (turned out that I was just a shit).
But I sure admired those hippie chicks. :-)
I am a Taoist.
Why be anything other than spirit? Taoist is just monkey writings.
BBC, one of the artists who sells through the gallery at the Landing told me sales during the tourist season pay the rent for the whole year. I guess they don't need you.
Swain's Hdwe. and Port Angeles Millwork together put Home "Despot" to shame. The old saying is if you want to find something in Home "Despot", ask an employee and then walk in the opposite direction from where they pointed you. It works everytime!
The old saying is if you want to find something in Home "Despot", ask an employee and then walk in the opposite direction from where they pointed you. It works everytime!
I see, I didn't know that you couldn't just wander around and find things on your own without directions. :-)
Swain's Hdwe. and Port Angeles Millwork together put Home "Despot" to shame.
I love Swains, but that doesn't stop me from going to Home Depot, it's my money and I'll spend it where I want to, or can find what I want.
BBC, one of the artists who sells through the gallery at the Landing told me sales during the tourist season pay the rent for the whole year. I guess they don't need you.
This is good because I don't need them either unless one of them wants to wash my truck. hehehe
I was in the landing last week, it was a melting pot of activity during the tourist season, no it wasn't, there were only two other monkeys in there.
Randall sez: "You know what they say about bullies, just stand up to them and they wither. This one certainly has."
What the fuck are you talking about? The only person bullying anyone here is you. You demand this whole blog conform to the way you want to see things, or else you clog it up with your happy crap.
But, look at the posts, and you see the majority are from people pointing out the ongoing problems. You just ignore most of them, and go on with your drivel.
Create your own blog, and all the cheer leaders like you can be happy there. Or are you not that creative?
After looking at the world wide news there isn't much point in expecting things to pick up here so it's best to just buckle down and figure out how to get by the best we can.
I'm headed back out to the boondocks for a few days, the rest of you monkeys are in charge while I'm gone.
"I came to P.A. to help a friend get a house together."
So that means you'll be leaving once you're done getting the house together?
You're enamoured of PAFAC, but what do you think of Bob Stokes?
Hey Tom, did you see the PDN clip about Kenmore Air?
"Compared with the same month in 2010, Port Angeles-to-Seattle flights lost 8.2 percent ridership in March, 17.7 percent in April and 19.5 percent in May.
In June, the number rose to 27.5 percent, O’Neill said."
An almost 30% drop in ridership? Wow! Why has the ridership been dropping so dramatically, in such a short period of time?
And, I can't think that 2010 was a banner year, either. The economy (which they seem to be blaming this drop upon), was not so much better here, 1 year ago.
It isn't like Kenmore offers a service that most take on lightly. Most people plan trips on airplanes. Kenmores' service is limited to Seattle. Did that many people quit traveling?
What is the reason for this?
Kenmore's prices are too high for most people. Cheaper to drive AND PARK for a short trip, and way cheaper to take the "expensive" bus.
When people are coming to visit...it's the same price to drive to pick the up, head to Seattle,have lunch, then take the ferry back.
When ticket prices cost the same to get from Boing Field to PA, as it does from flying from to SeaTac it is hard to justify the expense.
As much as I like Kenmore, without a commuter ticket special, and without the ability to by a bulk number of flights at a discount price, I can't "afford" it. A luxury that I cannot justify. Add that to the strange flight times (which do not really connect well to the bulk of the flights from other airlines).
Come to think of it, I might be the 30% drop. I travel THAT much. Had over 50 flights on Kenmore last year, this year, none so far.
BBC..."Taoist is just monkey writings." No one who is truly spiritual would make a statement like that about a 3,000 year old philosophy that is about peace and harmony.
Here is something for you to think about while you are counting your bullets..."Taoist propriety and ethics emphasize the Three Jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility, while Taoist thought generally focuses on nature, the relationship between humanity and the cosmos (天人相应); health and longevity; and wu wei (action through inaction). Harmony with the Universe, or the source thereof (Tao), is the intended result of many Taoist rules and practices."
Check wiki for more.
10:21..."You demand this whole blog conform to the way you want to see things, or else you clog it up with your happy crap."
I'm not demanding anything. I am suggesting that there is more value in discussing options rather than merely..."pointing out the ongoing problems." Propose and discuss solutions 10:21...that is the point I am making.
7:47..."So that means you'll be leaving once you're done getting the house together?" Gee, I don't know about that .
" what do you think of Bob Stokes?"
I only met Bob Stokes once. I think he is a real asset to the community. I like the sculptures on the street they are very unique. If you are fishing for a criticism, maybe the one mounted on the bench was a step to far. In general I like all the works around the downtown area.
Let me make it clear, I have no interest in public art, so you don't have to worry about me trying to add something to your downtown.
"I support you Randall!"
Oh, please. Stop feeding this happy-happy troll and he'll get bored and go away.
Randall C. Page ATTENTION:
The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
Go!
I don't care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Randal C. Page, will you please go NOW!
Anonymouse 1:26...I had not checked this thread lately...busy working, you know (maybe you don't).
I will make you a deal. I will go if you can prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that all the posts by "Anonymous" here on this blog are not posted by you.
Ooops, there it is...how's that powerless thing workin' out for ya'? ROTFL
hello anonymous person from july 14,1:26 pm. i have been watchng this blog for a long time. i have to tell you randall has really done a good job of putting you in your place. he has made you look silly and childish. check his post to pa.nerd. did you notice he is a person who has canoed the entire mississippi. i googled that and it is 2,500 miles. do you really think you can bully someone like that?
he made an interesting statement about "your choice", i interpret that to mean that he sees you have chosen "identity suicide" over reasonable web conventions. do you like the way he left you childish "rancid" post twisting in the cyber winds.
grow up anon and face the facts that you have a lot to learn.
Paladin, "Identity Suicide"...great line...I wish I would have thought of that!
Randall C Page: I will go if you can prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that all the posts by "Anonymous" here on this blog are not posted by you.
Randall, you keep saying this. How stupid are you trying to present yourself as?
Look on this page, below the "Leave Your Comment" box, and anyone can see 4 posting ID choices. The bottom one is "Anonymous", and anyone can choose that at the click of a button.
Look back through the archives, and see that the majority of this blog's users make that choice, and post as "Anonymous".
Since you keep thinking and stating, in your obviously paranoid state, that ALL the posts on this blog made under "Anonymous" are made by one person, you ARE just that stupid.
anonymouse 11:38...Do you still wear the paper bag over your head?
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