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EDUCATION: GPRC marks first grads of four year electrical apprenticeship program SUNDAY-NIGHT CRASH

Daily Herald-Tribune, Monday, November 30, 2009

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Sense of electricity
REMO ZACCAGNA Herald-Tribune staff
challenges,” explained senior instructor Norm Driver. “(There is) a course information standard across the province but each institution delivers its own particular style, so had to work in collaboration with some of the other colleges and their material and compile enough material to get these guys through the course smoothly.” But Bell, 25, said students appreciated the effort. “I think they did a really good job of trying to make it as smooth as possible. Obviously there was a couple of hiccups with new administration and new rules and stuff like that, but it’s been pretty good, it’s been pretty smooth,” he said. Driver said that electricians are starting to be looked at as the doctors and lawyers of the trade world, because four years are needed to become journeymen, and another minimum of three years post-journeymen are required to become a master electrician. Additionally, at a time when layoffs are commonplace, electricians remain in demand, he said. “Certainly there have been some job losses and such along the way, with a few of the mills closing and reducing production and those sorts of things. But being an electrician is one of the most recession-proof trades, because there’s electricity all around us and there is always maintenance required,” Driver said. Fehr, 28, said he looked into the program for that very reason. “The nice thing about electrical is it doesn’t matter if the oilfield slows down, electrical is a big area, it covers a lot of stuff – houses, commercial – and there’s always going to be work for electricians, that’s for sure,” he said. Overall, Driver said the entire experience has been rewarding. “It’s a really good feeling. It’s definitely been, like I said, a bit of a challenge, but every time we see these (guys) go through it always makes us feel proud that we’ve helped to achieve their goals,” he said. [email protected]

Twenty-four students are the first to graduate from the Grande Prairie Regional College’s fouryear Electrical Apprenticeship program. In previous years, the program had been run at Fairview College, then under the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), but now under the jurisdiction of GPRC. The students are able to write provincial examinations to become journeyman electricians, able to work anywhere in Alberta and then, if they choose to do so, an inter-provincial exam that would allow them to work across the country. “It’s been a while…it’s more of a relief that it’s finally over. It’s been a lot of blood, sweat and tears, that’s for sure,” said Jason Bell on Friday, adding that he hopes to run his own company after a few years experience. “This year was definitely the best, I think I learned a lot more this year, a lot more information to take in, but it was good,” added graduate Derick Fehr. The changeover from NAIT to GPRC didn’t come without hurdles in the previous four years, as instructors scrambled to obtain lab materials and notes for the students, rather than using another institution’s notes that would deal with different aspects of the trade. “Certainly we had a few

DAMIEN WOOD Sun Media

RCMP, firefighters and EMS responded to a two-vehicle collision at the downtown intersection of 98 Street and Richmond Avenue yesterday around 7:30 p.m. Circumstances around the crash were uncertain, but police said it appeared the two vehicles collided before one went on to hit a light pole. The drivers of both vehicles were taken to hospital.

Toys for tickets a big success in Fort St. John
DAVID BELL THE CANADIAN PRESS
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Santa may make the list and check it twice, but it’s the parking meter enforcement officers who decide which drivers are naughty and which are nice. And in this northern B.C. city, for the month of December at least, they’re taking unwrapped toys instead of cold hard cash in payment for tickets. ‘‘You should see all the toys we get, it is awesome,’’ said Grace Fika, human resource manager for the city of Fort St. John. The toys collected by the city are given to the Salvation Army for distribution through its Christmas hamper drive. The city estimates that between $1,500 and $2,000 in ticket revenue is forgiven through the program, and Fika says the value of the toys collected far exceeds the cost of the program. It’s the fifth year for the program, which seems to take some of the sting out of paying parking tickets. ‘‘It is the only time of the year that I actually like writing tickets,’’ said Kris Josefsson, a bylaw enforcement officer. ‘‘So I go out there and try to get as many as possible so I can get more presents to the Sally Ann. ‘‘People seem to really like the program. It is just a good thing to do this time of year.’’ Fika said residents seem to like the program, too. ‘‘People go ‘this is really neat.’ There was actually a lady that made a comment last year that she was disappointed that she had not gotten a ticket, she wanted a ticket,’’ Fika said.

‘‘So she brought a toy in anyhow.’’ Coun. Lori Ackerman said the toys-for-tickets program helps raise awareness of the hamper program, and Capt. Ben Lippers of the Salvation Army said the Christmas ticket amnesty turns something that is normally unpleasant into an opportunity to help an underprivileged child. ‘‘I thank the city immensely for it because they don’t have to do it, it is their generosity,’’ Lippers said. – Alaska Highway News

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