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By Laura Wells

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The public came out to support Roussel Toyota by taking part in a grand opening celebration which involved tours of the new dealership, snacks, drinks, and entertainment.

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From left, those who took part in the official ribbon cutting. Jason Harris, owner Michel Rousel, Mayor Gerry Cormier, Charles Roussel, Pauline Roussel, Tony Wearing, Pat Dupuis and Fred Roussel.

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Callie and Shona Harris came out to support dad and husband Jason Harris.

Jason Harris, salesperson at Roussel Toyota was master of ceremonies for the event.

"On behalf of the staff I would like to extend a sincere welcome to everyone here this evening for the grand opening of this brand new Toyota dealership in beautiful Miramichi," Harris said.

Harris welcomed and introduced special guests that were present from Toyota Canada, with one being Tony Wearing. Other guests included Mayor Gerry Cormier, and councillor Derrick Burchill. Harris extended best wishes on behalf of Miramichi Bay du Vin MLA Bill Fraser and Minister of Public Safety and Miramichi Centre MLA John Foran who were unable to attend.

Cormier expressed his thanks to Michel Roussel on behalf of city. "We thank you for this beautiful building. It's really beautiful. It's a tremendous asset to our city and thank you for choosing us. Un gros merci pour choisis le Miramichi pour votre magasin.

I see in the paper today they employ roughly 32 people. Thirty-two people is great. Thank you for hiring those 32 people... I just want to say welcome and thank you very much Mr. Roussel, Mrs. Roussel for being here. We look forward to doing many many years of business with you on the Miramichi."

Tony Wearing of Toyota Canada added, "I just want to say it is a pleasure to be here tonight from Toyota Canada. As you can see there are a lot of representatives from Toyota Canada and I do wonder why aren't you all back working at the office for me instead of enjoying yourselves? No, tonight is a night to celebrate. I first came to this dealership back in 1990 when I was a zone manager living in Halifax. At that time it was a state of the art dealership for this community. It served customers very well, but I was saying to Michel tonight ‘wow'. What a job you have done and thank you very much on behalf of Toyota Canada for the investment you have made and for the growth you have made for Toyota. You can see from your guests tonight that service to your customers is so important. That's what this is all about, making things better for our communities."

Michel Roussel expressed his thanks to customers, Toyota Canada, and all those who helped to bring the event to fruition, "Miramichi is a real nice place to do business with. First thing is we have a lot of real good customers. We increased our business. We thank Toyota for building really good product, the best product in the world. We have new product coming out every time better and better and better. Also I'd like to thank all our staff. All our staff puts in a lot of effort. Without them this would not be built. To all our staff, thank you so very much. We really appreciate what you did. Also I'd like to thank the people from Toyota Canada for being here. I'd like to thank Al McKenzie and his group. They helped me to pick out the building plan. They were great help. Thank you all very much. The hardest thing for me was to work with my general contractor, and Jeff is here. Thank you very much Jeff. Thank you very much everybody who helped to make this possible."