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Students win scholarships

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Fifteen Aboriginal students from across the country won $1,000 each to put toward their post-secondary educations.

The 1995 recipients were awarded Canada Trust Partnership for Youth scholarships, announced the Foundation for the Advancement of Aboriginal Youth.

"Through the FAAY post-secondary scholarship program, Canada Trust is striving to provide the means for today's young people to realize their full potential," said Dianne Smith Sanderson, Canada Trust spokesperson.

The scholarship program is part of a three-year commitment to FAAY,.

Students win scholarships

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Fifteen Aboriginal students from across the country won $1,000 each to put toward their post-secondary educations.

The 1995 recipients were awarded Canada Trust Partnership for Youth scholarships, announced the Foundation for the Advancement of Aboriginal Youth.

"Through the FAAY post-secondary scholarship program, Canada Trust is striving to provide the means for today's young people to realize their full potential," said Dianne Smith Sanderson, Canada Trust spokesperson.

The scholarship program is part of a three-year commitment to FAAY,.

Training turns work into fulfilling career

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Paul Nyland decided he'd had enough. He'd had enough of working outside in the cold and the rain; working in jobs with no future and being the first to be laid off whenever business took a downturn.

He had had enough of being pushed around and treated with little respect on the construction sites where he worked in a variety of laboring jobs, a plain "Mr. Nobody".

He was 25 years old and had dropped out of school in Grade 10. Nyland wanted something better, but he knew that doors to good jobs were closed to him without the necessary training.

Training turns work into fulfilling career

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Paul Nyland decided he'd had enough. He'd had enough of working outside in the cold and the rain; working in jobs with no future and being the first to be laid off whenever business took a downturn.

He had had enough of being pushed around and treated with little respect on the construction sites where he worked in a variety of laboring jobs, a plain "Mr. Nobody".

He was 25 years old and had dropped out of school in Grade 10. Nyland wanted something better, but he knew that doors to good jobs were closed to him without the necessary training.

Aspiring pilot flies high through work experience

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"I've always wanted to be a pilot," says Ken Ruben, an Inuvialuit from Paulatuk, N.W.T.

Together, Ruben and his father saved enough money for him to attend the Lethbridge Flying Club for two years in 1992 and 1993. There he received his commercial licence, and his multi-engine and Instrument Flight Ratings. Last summer, he got a head start on his training by taking part in a new air photo internship program.

Aspiring pilot flies high through work experience

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"I've always wanted to be a pilot," says Ken Ruben, an Inuvialuit from Paulatuk, N.W.T.

Together, Ruben and his father saved enough money for him to attend the Lethbridge Flying Club for two years in 1992 and 1993. There he received his commercial licence, and his multi-engine and Instrument Flight Ratings. Last summer, he got a head start on his training by taking part in a new air photo internship program.