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DTE Energy launches Tree Trim Academy to create 200 jobs in Detroit by 2024
Graduates complete a 6-week Line Clearance Tree Trimming program
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DTE Tree Trim Academy students are prepared to enter the line clearance tree trimming career pathway after completing the six-week curriculum. (DTE Energy)
DETROIT – DTE Energy announced on Thursday that it is launching a Tree Trim Academy and create 200 jobs over the next three years in Detroit.
Officials said the academy is in partnership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 17, the city of Detroit and Focus HOPE.
The academy will “offer new jobs, paid training and wraparound services,” and those who graduate from the program will “help to ensure energy reliability by reducing outages due to fallen trees and branches,” read a press release.
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Recent visitors include George Bogardus of Saltillo; Â Crystal Ellison, Dixie Ellison and Alexis Ellison (daughter and granddaughters of Sharon and Danny Bailey who work in the Town Square Post Office) of Woodland, Miss.; Â and Mark Rogers of Lauderdale, Miss. who was researching and viewing the history and artifacts on display of his ancestor Columbus Ware Stegall, who served in the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
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Lynda Tinsley donated jewelry that had belonged to her mother in the mid 1900s. The jewelry is a set including a necklace, bracelet and earrings of blue stones set in antique gold.Â