Central Albertans earn top honours for their mad skills

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Fellow RDPers Jared Gamble (Plumbing) and Joseph Saunderson (Sprinkler Systems Installer) won silver in their respective trades. Ryley Bakken (Steamfitter/Pipefitter) earned bronze.

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“These recent achievements reinforce the high-quality experiences available to apprentices at Red Deer Polytechnic and throughout the region,” says Joel Gingrich, Dean of School of Education and Trades. “Along with receiving enhanced education, training and support from RDP instructors, Skills Coaches and technicians, our apprentices receive industry-relevant opportunities from our region’s employers. This support and collaboration prepare our apprentices to excel in their fields.”

Students from Chinook’s Edge School Division also excelled at the Edmonton event.

Johan Eriksson (Carpentry), a Grade 10 Didsbury High School student, earned silver, and Travis Lorenz (Carpentry), a Grade 11 at H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, earned bronze. Davin Garrow (Carpentry), a Grade 11 student from H.J. Cody, also participated, placing seventh.

Scott Etienne, Career and Technology Studies (CTS) teacher, Didsbury High School, said, “Johan is only in Grade 10 and this well earned provincial silver medal will give him impetus to pursue his goals in school and for the rest of his life.”

Other local high school students to medal included Jaden Chornomydz (Graphic Design-bronze), who attends Notre Dame in Red Deer, and Notre Dame’s Mack Gould (Hairstyling Junior-silver). Mary Catherine Sorensen (Job Skills Demonstration-bronze), also attends Notre Dame.

Ponoka Secondary’s Jake Sheppard (Welding-silver) also had success.

Elsewhere, Chinook’s Edge bus drivers swept the podium at the recent Central Alberta Bus Road-eo on May 6, held at Red Deer’s Notre Dame Secondary.

Bus Road-eo winners. (Chinook’s Edge School Division)

Kelly Frere placed first (a repeat of last year), Melissa Brodeur was second, and Arnold Begeman finished third.

Twenty-five drivers from Chinook’s Edge, Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division, Wolf Creek Public Schools and Prairie Bus Lines took part.

Frere, Brodeur and Begeman will now move on to provincial competition at Nisku on June 3, 2023.