Staff Writer
Members of the Caribou High School Technology Center SKILLS USA program teamed up with students from the Viking’s Korner Kitchen on April 29, for their annual fund-raiser dinner. This year a silent auction was an added attraction.
Nita Campbell, adviser to the SKILLS USA program at the Caribou Technology Center stands with student Josh Fuller, who will be participating in the National SKILLS USA Competition next month in Kansas City, Mo.
SKILLS USA is a program that partners students, teachers and business to ensure that the country’s future workforce is supplied with skilled individuals.
The annual dinner and fund-raiser was hosted by Caribou Technology Center Mrs. Nita Campbell, SKILLS USA adviser and her students from the Viking’s Korner Kitchen. The evening event was held in the CHS cafeteria, with tables decorated in the, “A Touch of Class,” complete with black and red tablecloths highlighting the table settings. Vocational staff, board members, students. families and friends were in attendance for the annual affair.
The roast-beef dinner and silent auction raised $1,300, which will be used to assist SKILLS USA student Josh Fuller, a welding student to travel to Kansas City, Mo, in June where he will participate in the National SKILLS USA competition, demonstrating his winning welding sculpture. Fuller qualified for the slot in the national competition by placing in the State SKILLS USA event held recently in Bangor.
Prior to dinner being served, Ralph Conroy, director of the Caribou High School Technology Center, welcomed those in attendance and along with members later met with the board of director member to discuss the continued growth of the center.
Campbell offers her sincere thanks to Ralph Conroy, parents and local merchants from Caribou, Limestone and Presque Isle who donated time and some of the 55 items for the silent auction and the dinner. Other auction items included those created by technology students.
SKILLS USA students and those who participate with the Viking Korner Kitchen at the Caribou Tech Center, served guests during the recent annual fund-raiser dinner.
The CHS cafeteria was transformed by a, “Touch of Class” during the annual SKILLS USA dinner and meeting.
The real nuts and bolts of fishing. This student made creation was one of many items in the silent auction.
