A big need for trades training regionally

Continued from Page A1 Beautiful Plains School Division Superintendent

Jason Young told the Banner & Press this is welcome news.

“The current Neepawa schools will be comfortably full by this fall. The nine temporary classrooms will be full, as we are adding about 10 students per month to the Neepawa schools.” The temporary classrooms were needed even after the last school expansion.

Young indicated that the new school has been part of the BPSD capital plan for a couple of years. He said, “There’s a big need for trades training and regionally, there is a big gap between Crocus and the Dauphin schools. With the new hospital and with all the other demands for trades training, we need this new school. It will need 16 acres of land so we can have proper playing fields and green space, so it will look like we want a community to look.”

Young noted that the current gymnasiums are the entertainment hub of the community right now with all the activities. The