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By Josh Sigurdson
May 16, 2021 | 10:28 AM
Students attending the Regina Trades and Skills Centre (RTSC) had the opportunity to help out a local community organization.
The students laid a concrete base for the Regina Minor Softball League, which will be used a storage space for the league.
Executive Director of the RTSC, Brian Shankowsky says community projects like this are essential to the program, adding it’s hard to simulate jobsite situations in a classroom.
“As part of our training, we look for non-for-profit organizations to partner with for projects like this, so our students can experience those issues that may happen on a job site, whatever it is, the components of a job site that are difficult in a training scenario, but happen out here,” said Shankowsky. “It’s crucial for them because now they have a little closer, smaller transition to an actual employment opportunity.”
Students from the Regina Trades and Skills Centre were hard at work on Thursday pouring the foundation for a storage shed to be used by Regina Minor Softball.
REGINA Weeks after a devastating loss, a Regina family has a new roof on their home thanks to some Good Samaritans. Tenille Bryanton died on April 11, after fighting a rare form of cancer. She left behind her husband Adam and their two daughters. Before Tenille died, the family had been planning for a new roof on their house and had even received a quote. But now, two local organizations have stepped in to take care of the task for the family. The Regina Trades & Skills Centre partners with Wheatland Roofing each year to donate a new roof to a deserving family, this year they chose the Bryanton family.
A photo of Adam and Tenille Bryanton with their daughters Harlow and Averie. (GoFundMe)
Tenille Bryanton was able to pick out new shingles for her home as part of a project for Regina Trades and Skills.
But she died on April 11 after a months-long battle with cancer, weeks before she was able to see the roof repaired on what was supposed to be her forever home. She was 30.
“We were really hopeful that we might have treatments that would beat back her tumours and allow her a lot more time with us but her cancer was just super-aggressive so now we’re just continuing to support each other,” said Terri Strunk, Tenille’s mother.