Cyril Farrell, Principal of the Central Newfoundland Regional College in Grand Falls-Windsor, accepts a cheque from Roger Pike, Public Relations Manager with Abitibi-Price. Bill Lahey, Employee Relations Supervisor with Abitibi-Price, and Gary Tremblett of the CEP Council of Unions, look on. Missing from photo is Barry Saunders of the IBEW.Advertiser Photo

Abitibi-Price employees set up ABE scholarship

The hard work of employees at the Abitibi-Price paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor has paid off for local Adult Basic Education students.

The employees of the Grand Falls Division won an $11,500 cash award for the best cost-per-tonne production performance within Abitibi-Price in 1995. This money will be used to set up a scholarship at the Central Newfoundland Regional College in Grand Falls-Windsor.

"We've been involved with literacy for the past ten years," says Roger Pike, Public Unions Relations Manager with Abitibi-Price. "It's been one of our corporate objectives that we get involved in an area such as literacy."

A committee was struck to determine how the money could be best used and it was decided to support ABE students. The committee members were Bill Lahey, Employee Relations Supervisor with Abitibi-Price; Gary Tremblett, CEP Council of Unions representative; Barry Saunders of the IBEW; and Mr. Pike.

"We thought that the best way this money would have an impact was to put it into training," says Mr. Pike, a former member of the provincial literacy advisory board. "We are putting an emphasis on (Continues)