Forever in blue jeans
Jim Garfield celebrates his 13th and final year at School District 58 By Jillian Mitchell For Jim Garfield, the day-to-day work holds much excitement – and the School District 58 maintenance supervisor prefers it that way. “It makes life interesting,” he chuckles. “It’s a good job and I work with a great bunch of people. We work hard and we play hard. It’s been fun and that’s what makes it worthwhile coming to work.”
The B.C.-born-and-raised Garfield has been at the School District 58 (NicolaSimilkameen) for 13 years, of which he has taken great pride – especially when it comes to his blue jeans. “There’s a standard joke here that I wear blue jeans [both at and outside of work],” he jokes. “I’m a blue-jeans kind of guy. One year, the whole secretary
team came dressed as the maintenance supervisor – that’s the kind of great team we have here.” Though Garfield is quite comfortable in the educational sector, he started his career as a trades helper in the mining industry. In 1970, he was hired on at Newmont Mines, where he worked for 22 years as a heavy-duty mechanic.
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