Automates Alouette

Posted on January 08, 2012 by Admin
Automates Alouette

Automates Alouette

I've filed my main piece and I'll post links to it and Milty's QB column in the morning but in the meantime here's our latest lens-shattering effort and an amusing story on Alouette ticket sales.

Ticats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille received a rather unusual email this week inviting him to purchase tickets for the Montreal Alouettes home playoff game.

That he was an opposition's mailing list wasn't a surprise – Bellefeuille was a season-ticket holder when he coached there in 2006 and 2007 – but that the team is selling tickets for a game it hasn't clinched raised a few eyebrows in Ticatland.

“Each organization does what they think is best,” Bellefeuille said, smiling. “We'll just leave it at that.”

The Alouettes can secure a home date – they play their post-season games at the cavernous Olympic Stadium– with a victory Sunday over the Ticats but a Hamilton win would make the game's location far less certain. The Ticats would be just a game behind Montreal and hold the tie-breaker courtesy of three head-to-head wins.

Reaction from Ticat players on the Alouette sales strategy was mixed.

“I don't know anything about that – I don't work in the ticket office,” said Ticat running back and former Alouette Avon Cobourne. “How they handle their business is up to them.”

But linebacker Rey Williams questioned the timing.

“They can sell all the tickets they want but they still have to play us first,” Williams said. “We're going to out there and give them hell.”

Montreal head coach Marc Trestman sounded keen to avoid providing possible bulletin board material.

“I have no comment on that. We don't care anything about that stuff. We're just going to try and win a game, we don't care what it means,” Trestman said. “That's a question for our president or somebody else but it's not for me. I'm not a part of that decision-making process.”

Chicago-based Tandem Construction Inc. completed a renovation and small addition to the Kolb-Lena Inc. cheese factory in Lena.

According to a news release from Tandem, the company installed new concrete floors with tile and epoxy finishes, stainless steel floor drains and a 925-square-foot addition to the approximately 90,000-square-foot building. The renovated portion of the plant will contain the assembly line, which will now be partially automated.

Kolb-Lena Inc. is owned by Alouette Cheese USA, the Pennsylvania-based U.S. subsidiary of French-based Bongrain S.A. Bongrain has about 120 factories worldwide.

Alouette is the No. 1 brand of premium spreadable cheese in America. In Lena, about 130 workers produce soft-ripened, brie, feta and goat cheese.

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