The Introduction to Trades class at Chatelech Secondary School is designed to foster interest and give students confidence and basic skills that are needed in trades such as carpentry. To accomplish this, the students were tasked with building a 4’ x 8’ garden shed compete with a shingled roof and proper door.
2963 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Army Cadet Corps has been operating on the Sunshine Coast for 40 years. Cadets are encouraged to become active, responsible members of their communities. Cadets also learn valuable life and work skills such as teamwork, leadership and citizenship.
Recently these two programs came together when Grade 10 student and cadet Thomas Lavric overheard some adults at his cadet corps talking about the need for more storage at the training facility in Wilson Creek. Thomas approached both his woodshop teacher, Gary Michaeli, and his Commanding Officer, Capt. Gregorchuk, about letting the cadets have the shed he and the other students were working on. Both thought this was a good idea. So on June 10, with the help of Day and Night Towing to winch the shed onto a flat deck borrowed from Warren Hansen, the structure was moved from the wood shop at Chatelech to its new home at the Army Cadets outdoor training facility on Hilltop Road in Wilson Creek. On June 16 a group of cadets got together to stain the shed and make it their own.
2963 Seaforth Highlanders extend a sincere thank you to all concerned for this donation.
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