MISSOULA — As UFP Industries’ Bonner wood products facility winds down operations, the efforts to help its impacted workers pick up.

The Montana Department of Labor & Industry hosted a “rapid response event” for the roughly 100 employees laid off in the closure of the Edge Prefinished facility on Wednesday.

Since the closure was announced at the end of July , Jonathan Petty has been looking for what to do next. He stopped by Wednesday’s event in search of opportunities, speaking with representatives from all sorts of industries hiring in Missoula.

Watch the full story: Event aims to help laid off UFP workers stay in Missoula area

“I’m here looking for a job,” he said. “It’s exploratory.”

Petty, who started at Edge in February, liked his work and his coworkers and wanted to contin

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