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Thursday, September 19, 2013 North Thompson Star/Journal
Celebrate National Forest Week with Art and Win! Submitted
to celebrate National Forest Week. The art competition is open to kids aged four to 12, parents can submit their own kids’ artwork or teachers can enter the work of the whole classroom. Kids from across
the province are invited to draw a picture of what the forests in their communities mean to them. There will be three winners - one from each age group. Winners will receive a $50 gift certificate to Chapters
and will have their pictures published in the ABCFP and TLA The Association magazines and posted of BC Forest Profeson the websites of sionals (ABCFP) and both organizations. the Truck Loggers As“As a forest prosociation (TLA) are fessional, I spend my holding an art comdays with policies, petition from Sept. laws and permits and 17 to Oct. 15, 2013 sometimes forget about the fun side of forests,” says Christine Gelowitz, RPF, president of the ABCFP. “It is always fantastic to be reminded about the fun factor when we see how children interpret forests.” “Children have a unique perspective of our world,” said Dwight Yochim, RPF, executive director of the TLA. “And they have an ability to capture that per2012 winner in the 9-12 years category is Evan Smith age 11 of Salmon Arm. spective and share
with us a glimpse of what they see each and every day. What they perceive and how they interpret it reminds us of our own childhood when everything was new.” Pick up your pencil crayons and visit the ABCFP or the TLA websites to download the art competition entry form, www.abcfp.ca or www.tla.ca. See more details and how you can participate in National Forest Week in this weeks supplement to the Star/Journal. Right: 2012 winner of the photo contest for members is Leah Ballin, of Vancouver with this detailed photo of a mossy tree.
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Forest industry offers Skills Award for Aboriginal Youth Submitted The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is opening nominations for its annual Skills Award for Aboriginal Youth, as part of its effort to attract more Aboriginal workers to the forest sector. The award will honour a First Nations, Metis or Inuit individual with strong academic standing who is committed to his or her field of study and to a career in the dynamic forest sector. The $2,500 award is targeted at youth from 18 to 25 who are now enrolled in an apprenticeship program, in college or in university. “We recognize the special historic bond between Aboriginal communi-
ties and the forest products industry,” says David Lindsay, president and CEO of FPAC. “It is vitally important for the forest sector to reach out to our neighbours and long-time partners in rural forest communities, and that includes Aboriginal youth.” Under Vision2020, FPAC has set the ambitious “people” goal of refreshing the workforce with an additional 60,000 workers by the end of the decade. This includes a desire to hire more Aboriginals, as well as more women and new Canadians. The other Vision2020 goals are to increase economy activity by $20 billion through new products and markets and to further enhance the
sector’s environmental performance by another 35 per cent. This is the second year that FPAC will hand out this award. The first Aboriginal Skills award went to Baillie Redfern, an M.Sc graduate student studying Genome Science and Technology at the University of British Columbia. Redfern, a member of the Painted Feather Woodland Metis Tribe in Ontario, is studying how to use bio-ingredients from wood fibre to create bio-products such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Nominations for the annual Skills Award for Aboriginal Youth will be open until Nov. 30, 2013. Information on how to apply can be found at:www. fpac.ca/youthaward