Ontario Power Generation has announced $50,000 in funding for The Lake Huron Learning Centre in Kincardine.
Kincardine Mayor Anne Eadie says skills training at the centre helps develop Kincardine's workforce to fill local jobs. She says the bridge funding from OPG will give the centre time over the coming year to seek other sources of funding.
Lake Huron Learning Chair Larry Kraemer says the money enables them to offer another year of programming, while exploring future partnerships.
OPG has sponsored the Lake Huron Learning Centre since it opened at 385 Queen St. in Kincardine in 2011, offering post-secondary studies and skills training.
Current courses include, for example, project management, payroll administration and a one-year certificate program for personal support workers. The centre collaborates with Fanshawe College in delivering certificate programs.
In the future, if OPG proceeds with a Deep Geologic Repository to store low and intermediate level waste at the Bruce nuclear site, it has agreed with the Municipality of Kincardine as host community to fund a new Centre of Energy Excellence, which remains to be defined.
