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The Chicago Cubs have their hands full with the competition this year.
That says nothing about this year’s race in the National League Central. It’s an outlook drawn from replies to the city’s call for interest in building on nearly 21 acres at Roosevelt Road and Kostner Avenue, once a notorious and illegal dumpsite. The debris is gone, but there’s still environmental work to be done there, estimated at $5 million.
So it was striking that when the city advertised for developer interest, none other than the Cubs replied, and with something novel. The team, owned by the Ricketts family, paired with entrepreneur and real estate investor Penny Pritzker, former U.S. commerce secretary, to propose dividing the property between industrial development and a Cubs Urban Youth Academy. It would have ballfields and facilities run by the Cubs’ charitable arm that would teach skills and life lessons to local youth. The alliance is like a Ruth-Gehrig pair
Concerns raised over apprenticeship scheme
12 Feb, 2021 08:00 PM
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Apprenticeship numbers have climbed but still aren t where they need to be experts say. Photo / Getty Images
Apprenticeship numbers have climbed but still aren t where they need to be experts say. Photo / Getty Images
Heavyweights in the trades say a broad-brush approach to the Government s apprenticeship scheme is draining funds that should go to sectors hardest hit by the skilled labour shortage. Plumbers, electricians and building representatives were also concerned people were training for the wrong reasons or employers were using them as cheap labour.
But others say Government funding had helped build business confidence and more apprentices gaining qualifications was a win-win.
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Two local unions are starting recruitment drives for apprentices. (Shutterstock)
HUDSON VALLEY, NY Two local unions are starting recruitment drives for apprentices the Finishing Trades Institute of New York and the Sheet Metal Workers.
The Sheet Metal Workers will conduct a recruitment from March 1 through Dec. 30, seeking 20 Sheet Metal Worker apprentices.
The Finishing Trades Institute is looking for five glazier apprentices and five painter, decorator and paperhanger apprentices. Its recruitment drive runs from March 4 to Feb. 25, 2022.
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For the Sheet Metal Workers, applications can be picked up at the Local Union #38 Craft Training Fund, 38 Starr Ridge Road, Brewster, NY, from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays, during the recruitment period.
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February 2, 2021
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed the sum of N3.6 billion to the six area councils and other stakeholders as their shares of statutory allocations for the month of December 2020.
The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, who presided over the 149th Joint Area Councils Allocation Committee (JAAC), disclosed on Tuesday in FCTA disburses N3.6bn to area councils, stakeholders.
Aliyu described the December 2020 allocation as a great improvement of over N1 billion above the previous allocations to the councils.
She explained that out of the figure, the sum of N2,006,901,374.33 billion would go to the six area councils.