Despite setbacks, Roseburg firm still making boats KATU
Workers were absorb at various tasks on the boats last Wednesday. It was another day of work for North River Boats Inc. and its 55 employees.
Cross-grained to some reports and rumors, the company and its workers have been in production mode since last May 4.
They're happy to be in business after a three-week shutdown last April when an inquest of fraud by owner Brian Brush was first announced by the FBI.
Brush has since been charged with murder and is awaiting whirl in the Pacific County jail in South Bend, Wash.
The company is in receivership and John Mitchell Inc., a Portland players, became the court-appointed receiver after the Bank of the Cascades of Bend filed a lawsuit against North River last April because loan payments were not being made. That bank is the paramount secured creditor of the boat company.
"I think a lot of people think we're not in business," said John Mitchell whose job is to "manipulate the company."
"But we have enough commercial boat orders to operate at the level that we're at through 2010," he added.
