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www.pgcitizen.ca | Thursday, July 26, 2018
Building Up Her Industry Multi-Tooled Karen Anderson Wins Provincial Leadership Award Written by Frank Peebles
Building a career meant that Karen Anderson could also build just about anything. She took those steps deliberately and concretely: carpentry, scaffolding, forklift operating, this week she juggled her conversations with Citizen Industry & Trades amongst welding classes at CNC. These were evident developments, logical outcomes from training and hard work. What she didn’t have at the top of her
resume were words like “mentor” and “living example” but that was another kind of building Anderson was also doing as she helped construct buildings and other capital projects. The B.C. Construction Association (BCCA) moved those concepts higher up her career structure. Anderson was feted along with five other tradespeople at a gala event in Victoria attended by Premier John Horgan; the Honourable Melanie Mark Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training; and the Honourable Claire Trevana, Minister of
Karen Anderson has won an award for her carpentry work in theatre. Citizen photo by Brent Braaten.
