Once again this spring Local 633 apprenticeship coordinator Moke Eaglefeathers scoured Minnesota’s and Northern Wisconsin’s Native American reservations to recruit youngsters for this summer’s Cement Masons Industry Orientation Training Program, a ten week pre-apprenticeship program.

Adults get their chance to sample the same hands-on activities and discuss opportunities the union building trades provide during an evening version of Construct Tomorrow at Fitzgerald Hall in the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC).

Five pipe trades apprentices from Minnesota and North and South Dakota will compete in Chicago this summer after winning their respective categories in a two-day competition at the Minnesota Pipe Trades Apprentice Training Competition sponsored by Local 6 Training Center in Rochester, Minn.

Plumbers from Local 34 in St. Paul and Local 15 recently spent a Saturday spanned out across the Twin Cities in an effort to help others through “Water’s Off,” their one day in the year when they help people who can’t afford a plumber.