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Okanagan/Shuswap Highlights
Debbie Sluggett (Educational Liaison: Bell Pole, Tolko, LP Canada, Downie, RCFC)
Jennifer Stewart (Educational Liaison: Tolko - Riverside)
Debbie Bazett (Forest Education Coordinator, COFI - Southern Operations)

ILA Trades Convention and Mini Education Fair: “Growing a Skilled Force for an Expanding Forest Industry” (Vernon)
April 15 & 16, 2005

The Interior Logging Trades’ annual convention is always a big event for southern BC’s trucking and logging industry. Two years ago in Vernon, a new component was introduced… Jeannie Steele and Debbie Sluggett offered to incorporate a “mini career/education fair” into the event. Post-secondary recruiters for forest/wood related programs were invited to take part as were a number of other groups involved in forest education. Students from local school districts attended the show and were treated to a chance to see over 225+ pieces of “BIG EQUIPMENT” up close!! They also toured the inside displays and talked to the recruiters; a one-on-one experience. Everyone felt this was a big success.

This year we will offer a similar experience and hope to add a feature booth. The forest sector needs skilled people for its future. These people are needed in the woods, in the planning sector, in manufacturing (at all levels) and in the corporate offices. We want to show students and teachers that forestry is very high tech and that there are very diverse career opportunities. We hope we will see you there!

Participants include:

BCIT Selkirk UCC (TRU) UBC UNBC CNC Emily Carr Malaspina Pacific Logging Congress

OUC – trades OUC – engineering Pacific Logging Congress Silver Lake Forestry Centre – Peachland Vernon Secondary School Canadian Women In Timber Wood Manufacturing Council Temperate Forest Foundation

For more information on the “mini career/education fair”, contact Debbie Sluggett.

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