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Grade 10 students can look forward to a new program that will get them learning hands-on. In partnership with the Northwest Community College, Houston Secondary School’s Introduction to Trades program will start for the first time Sept. 8 that will see over a dozen students spend ten weeks trying out five different trades as a welder, electrician, plumber, carpenter and a fifth one to be decided. “This is the first time we’re offering it in Houston, but we have offered it in Smithers before,” NWCC regional director Regina Saimoto said. “Each trade is about two weeks in length and so it’s meant to be sort of an engaging, exploration of the different kinds of trades training that’s
available.” HSS currently has an ACE IT (Accelerated Credit Enrolment in Industry Training) program that allows grade 11 and 12 students to advance through the apprenticeship levels in becoming a tradesperson. Vice principal Julie Krall sees the Introduction program as a good segway into that. “We thought it would be a great idea to let the students explore in grade 10 ... with the different types of trades that are out there,” she said. “To see if they have an interest in a certain area, and that way they can then decide, ‘Wow I really like the welding, I didn’t think I would like welding. I think I’d like to take a welding ACE IT when I’m in Grade 12.’” The NWCC and HSS select the five See TRADES on Page 8
TransCanada crews working on environmental studies Alicia Bridges Interior News Posted August 28, 5:31 p.m.
TransCanada reported pipeline activists to the RCMP on August 27 after a convoy of their workers were refused access to Wet’suwet’en land by members of a Unist’ot’en clan blockade.
Four vehicles carrying Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project workers were turned away at a checkpoint on Chisholm Road south of Houston about 11 a.m.. The checkpoint is one of two camps blocking pipeline proponents from accessing the traditional territory of
“Discussions are still possible”
the Unis’tot’en clan, which is part of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The TransCanada Coastal GasLink Pipeline was origi-
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