We’re a state-of-the-art training centre

— Cheryl Jensen, Vice-President of Technology, Apprenticeship, and Corporate Training, Mohawk College.>>>Read More...

John Deere closing includes collateral losses

— Peter Partington,
Niagara Regional Chair
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Has provided years of public and
community service

- Joan Fisk, President
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Mohawk College STARRTs a new era for skilled trades

HAMILTON —It’s quite a transformation — a $24-million transformation in fact. The original Mohawk College campus on Barton St. in Stoney Creek was the sort of place you’d drive by every day and never even realize it was there. The long, dark brown, one-storey building blended in with its industrial park neighbours and had little personality. So some forward-thinking people at Mohawk decided it was time for a change.

“A career in skilled trades is a rewarding one,” says Cheryl Jensen, Mohawk’s Vice-President of Technology, Apprenticeship, and Corporate Training. “But our facility didn’t tell people that. We’re a state-of-the-art training centre, but we were living in a crowded 1970’s warehouse.”

Warehouse no more. The renovation and expansion of the Stoney Creek campus has brought better classrooms, modern shops, a new grand entrance and foyer, a theatre, and a corporate training centre. But it’s about much more than a new look. The new Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Research,

(ABOVE) PREMIER ANNOUNCEMENT:Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced
that the province was investing $9.2 million for Mohawk College’s new Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Research, Resources, and Training Institute (STARRT),raising the province’s overall investment in skills training and development to $16.3 million. The announcement took place on Aug. 20, 2008. The STARRT Institute is a state-of-
the-art training centre at the college’s Stoney Creek campus. STARRT will set a new standard for skilled trades and apprenticeship training facilities in Ontario. Photo courtesy of Mohawk College

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Windsor Canal

ARTIST’S RENDERING OF PROPOSED WINDSOR CANAL: A project team is currently studying whether a canal and inland marina basin is feasible for an area of the downtown Windsor. The proposal includes transforming a portion of former CP railway cut into an inland marina basin with the creation of a new inlet from the Detroit River as well as creating an inland canal that would extend through the core about 575 metres.

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