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• 1 Berlin/Coos Cty Hist. Society // Dec 17, 2006 at 5:56 pm

  Brown Bulletin 11 July 1950 page 4

  Caption: No. 7 turbine and generator pictured with Turbine Operator, Val Baillargeon. The generator produces 3,000 Kilowatts of power and the turbine feeds five paper machines.

• 2 Carl Belanger // Jan 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  Located at the Cascade Paper Mill boiler house and is still operational.

• 3 Paul Dimick // Nov 29, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  The gentleman in this photo is my grandfather
  Validore “Val” Baillargeon. He worked in the camps with his father, Fortuna as a young man,
  working his way up to the mill shoveling coal.
  He was promoted to lead in the boiler room and
  was a vital part of opertions for many years.
  His job was to keep the turbines running,if not the mill shut down.
  A father of six children,who lost his wife at a young age.

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