So the first (and hopefully only) Covid carnival has ended. We must applaud the carnival-makers, including the Minister of Culture, for their commitment to staging Vincy Mas 2022. It happened as planned and it was not an easy undertaking. Hard work was put in and satisfactory results were achieved. Quite a few persons stayed away from the shows at Victoria Park. A cursory assessment suggests that carnival revellers did not …
Minnesota fabricating community bands together to support welding program
Financial donations for South Central College welding lab aim to develop local manufacturing talent
Photos courtesy of South Central College
When Sarah Richards went to work for the family metal fabricating company, Jones Metal Inc., Mankato, Minn., in the latter part of the first decade of the 2000s, one of the first things she tackled was recruitment and employee retention. Early on she saw the difficulty in trying to entice young people into considering a career in manufacturing.
Today Richards and other nearby manufacturers who joined the cause see the fruition of their commitment to promoting manufacturing. With the help of state funding and additional financial support from the Jones family’s charitable foundation and those local metal fabricating companies, the North Mankato campus of South Central College now has a state-of-the-art welding lab and a waiting list of students to get into it.