Businesses in the Alberni Valley and farther west are beginning to recover as Highway 4 reopens.
Highway 4 opened to single-lane traffic on Friday, after weeks of closures due to the Cameron Bluffs wildfire.
“If we can’t get products to deliver to people and sell to people, we are absolutely dead in the water,” said Jowsey’s Furniture owner Mark Norn. “A fellow brewery in Cumberland actually offered to fly us grain on a small Cessna plane into the Port Alberni airport so that we could continue to brew beer,” said Colyn.
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