A local community mill has received a provincial investment for renovations to help it diversify its products. Harrop-Procter Community Cooperative has been granted $215,000 from the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund. The money will be used to upgrade equipment that helps the mill cut smaller diameter logs, and create three new jobs. The cooperative has managed the mill and logged the community forest above Harrop and Procter since 2009. Bill Macpherson, the cooperative’s president, said the money will be pooled with a further $750,000-$800,000 the organization is spending to renovate the mill. “It’s fairly substantial. It’s the new equipment that’s going to improve things that we can do as far as products and a roof linking a couple of buildings so the guys aren’t working out in the yard and the snow and the rain, and expansion of another building just to accommodate some new equipment.”