When I was a very little girl, my mother and I lived in Miramichi, N.B. (which was then known as Newcastle). Every day, multiple times per day, we would drive by this monstrous pulp and paper mill to and from our home. It was huge, smelly, an eye sore and it gave me asthma - which went away as soon as we moved to Moncton, N.B. Although I had no idea what a "mill" really was, I remember being fascinated by the seemingly endless mountains of woodchips and clouds of smoke. At just four years old, I wasn't thinking much about what was going on inside the mill. A few years later, at that very same mill, Candace Carnahan lost her leg in a conveyor belt incident. She was only 21 years old at the time. Carnahan's attitude toward the incident was beyond impressive -she didn't play the blame game, she didn't feel sorry for herself and she got to work on how she could help prevent these types of incidents in the future. (See page 8 for more.)
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