A funding boost for an area high school.
E.J. Lajeunesse has received $36,000 from the Canadian Welding Association Foundation.
School principal Thomas Couvillion says the money will be used to improve the welding facilities at the school and also promote welding and trades (at school) through community projects.
He says the school has already signed on to assist the local St. Vincent de Paul Society.
"We're going forward with repairing St. Vincent de Paul boxes and those types of community boxes that need to be repaired," says Couvillion. "It's an opportunity for students to further experience in welding in this situation but also understand a role they play within the community and maybe open some doors to future careers for them. We have a department in our tech department and it's so important to get the students engaged. We'll call them life experiences or work life experiences and that learning gives them opportunities and we're working with community groups, we have our program Re-Building Wheels, Re-Building Lives."
Couvillion credits the school's tech department head for working hard on the file to help secure the funds.