Wood work class popular CAT Scan cash given

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 436, 12 May 1992, Page 5

Wood work class popular CAT Scan cash given

BY

JO

HOWIE

A 16-hour wookwork course has recently finished and, through demand and popularity, another course may start if a woodwork tutor can be found. Current tutor Doug Vautier has been posted out of the area, so the woodwork course desperately needs another tutor. "I've always been a home handy man and started making wooden toys and went on from there. I've had no formal instruction apart from woodwork at school," Doug said. This Waiouru-based course is a part of the Wanganui Regional Community Polytechnic programme and the Senior Instructor at the Education Centre, Mike Nicholas, approached Doug to run a course. Doug said there were certain criteria to follow, set down by the Polytechnic. The students on the course made a variety of things, including book shelves, toy boxes, a kitchen wall unit, a microwave trolley, sewing stool, bedside table, corner shelf and someone made a planter shaped like a coffin. "They've really got the bug now and are in the hobby hut after hours working on their projects. They are confident with the machines and are learning from each other. This course is one that you do constructive work, you set an objective, achieve it and have something to show from it."

Ruapehu College Head Boy Steven Dowman hands over a cheque for $310 to Wanganui Blood Transfusion Service leader Liz Marr, who collected it on behalf of the Wanganui C.A.T. Scan appeal. The college's pupils heid a mufti day, raising the cash for the scanner. Also pietured are transfusion service workers Sonya Olney, Noleen Tindale and Peter Taylor.