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Local electrician will take on the world By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
A electrician from southeast Saskatchewan is looking forward to taking on some of the best young people in the world in his field later this year. Ryan Folk, who works for Chapman’s Electric in Carlyle, took top spot at the recent Skills Canada nationals competition in Halifax. It earned him a spot at the upcoming World Skills event in Kazan, Russia, from Aug. 22-27. It’s an event that he hopes will further his skill level. “To this point, it’s been a huge learning experience for me,” he said in an interview with Lifestyles. Folk earned the chance to compete in Halifax this year after finishing in the top two among those eligible to attend World Skills at a Skills Canada event in Edmonton a year ago. He spent the past year training and getting ready for nationals in Halifax. He went head-to-head with the other person who was eligible to advance to World Skills. During the past year, he was training every chance he had to get ready for the Hali-
fax showdown. He familiarized himself with Smart Relay programming and home automation programming, which allows people to control amenities in their home remotely. “That’s not something I use day to day, really, so I’ve been working a lot with that stuff, and the home automation that we’re supposed to be using isn’t widely available in Canada. So we have to try to get that imported in and just work with all of the parameters.” He has also been working to be quicker and more efficient. “I don’t know how many hours went into the preparation, but it was pretty much every weekend for a year that I worked on it,” he said. Once he was in Halifax, he went through a three-day competition. He said there are similarities in his event with a Skills Canada high school competition, but the high school level is a two-day test with a different project each day. The test he went through was on a much harder scale. Folk and his rival were marked on functionality, which is where the automation came into play, along
with wiring methods, the efficiency of how they ran the wires and their safety. “We get one big project on the first day, and they give us our sheets of where they want all of the devices mounted, and how they want everything to work, and then we get those two or three days, whether you’re at nationals or worlds, to work on that project. “It’s one big project that they mark it on, based on a whole bunch of different electrical standards.” Just completing the project was a big advantage, because not everybody is able to do that. “I haven’t got my marks back quite yet, but I think I did quite well, likely 75 per cent plus,” said Folk. The next two months will be spent fine-tuning his abilities, and looking to correct his mistakes from Halifax. “I’ll be looking to make sure that I can do things more efficiently than I did in Halifax, make everything quicker and better than I did, and just practice with that.” It means he’ll resume his weekly schedule of travelling to Regina on weekends to get ready for the global event. A2 » FOLK
Ryan Folk with the project he completed at the Skills Canada nationals competition in Halifax. He has advanced to the World Skills event in Russia in August. Photo submitted
National horseback ride passes through the southeast By Mary Moffat of the Carlyle Observer Two weary young women, their horses, dog and brother stopped on Railway Avenue
East in Carlyle on June 1 for a much needed break. They erected a portable pen and unsaddled their mounts and settled in for a rest. The van and the horses
attracted some local attention. As people watched the horses laying on the ground, one of them dreaming, the sisters shared their story. Jewel, Katie and Joseph Keca are
siblings whose family began raising puppies for the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides program. Since Jewel really didn’t want to head to university, she
decided to ride horses across Canada and raise money for the group. She and her sister Katie began the first leg of their adventure in Mahone Bay, N.S. on May 4, 2017, and
after 116 days they arrived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. They slept in tents, carrying packs and feed on horseback, and raised $7,000, which A2 » JOURNEY
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