The Pickering 24 PAGES ✦Pressrun 48,900 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2007 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 Kids helping Check out our rebuild New Orleans winning recipes Special Report/ 5 Page 8 Financial HE’S GOT THE TOUCH AROUND THE NET incentive for apprentices Grants designed velopment, was followed with an oversized novelty cheque presen- to help get youth tation to Mr. Page, a fourth-year into skilled trades plumbing apprentice in Pickering who recently finished his second level in the Red Seal program. By Crystal Crimi With the Red Seal, apprentices can
[email protected] practice their trade across Canada without needing to write more DURHAM — A new federal grant exams. “It’s nice to have extra is putting more money into Ajax money,” said Mr. Page. The $1,000 apprentice Andrew Page’s wallet, will help him with tool purchases and the money train isn’t stopping and bills. at him. During Mr. Jim Flaherty, Canada’s For more Flaherty’s visit to the finance minister and on this story Skills Centre, he met Whitby-Oshawa MP, vis- with other apprentices ited Durham College’s as well, including Ux- Skills Training Centre bridge’s Anthony Duran- Friday to introduce a new te. In the Motor Control grant, which will provide $1,000 Lab, equipped with various gauges per year to registered apprentices and coloured cords, the electrician who have finished their first and apprentice showed Mr. Flaherty second level in a Red Seal trade how students hook up a motor. program as of January 2007.