Owen Sound Sun Times

Hanover Launch Pad centre closes under financial pressures

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Mounting financial pressures led Hanover’s Launch Pad youth skills training organization to close its doors after almost 10 years, its volunteer board announced in a news release.  Originally inspired to help young people amid the ongoing youth methamphetamine problem which exploded in 2005 in Hanover, the program exposed youth to career paths and provided a place […]

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6 Organizations Join US Green Workforce Collaborative

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The most critical resource needed in the ongoing transition to electric vehicles isn’t lithium, silicon, or nickel — it’s an adequate workforce. Training people for the green industrial workforce needed for the 21st century industrial revolution is critical, needed in high volume, and hard to get and keep at the … [continued]

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Owen Sound Sun Times

Bluewater director of education retiring in summer

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After close to 40 years with the local public education system, Bluewater District School Board Director of Education Lori Wilder is retiring.  The Bluewater Board of Trustees accepted Wilder’s retirement letter in an in-camera session on Tuesday, before the announcement was shared at the regular meeting of the board and board staff were informed via […]