A new $17-million vocational wing is being added to Pembina Trails Collegiate.
Government Service Minister Lisa Naylor announced the provincial funding at a news conference Tuesday.
The funds will be used to construct a 19,000-square-foot wing at the school where students can learn trade skills such as cooking, welding, machining and carpentry.
The area where the South Winnipeg Recreation Complex will be built in Bridgwater.
Naylor said the modern facility will allow students to get “valuable training and hands-on skill development” in the trades.
The minister called the addition a “big step forward” in delivering on a campaign promise to create the South Winnipeg Recreation Campus in one of the province’s fastest growing communities.
Mayor Scott Gillingham said the addition will be a “significant milestone” in the development of a south recreation campus.
“It’s a campus that includes many different aspects and many different initiatives all together in one space,” Gillingham said, adding construction of the campus is set to begin in 2025.
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