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NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE TO UNVEIL MOBILE TRAINING UNIT

Northern New Mexico College on Tuesday will unveil the UA Local 412 Plumbers and Pipefitters and Northern New Mexico Workforce Integration Mobile Training Unit, a mobile classroom designed to train students in the skilled trades.

The training unit, housed in a 38-foot Winnebago, will provide three-week skilled trade camps — including CPR and first aid, ladder training and confined space training camps, among others — for up to 10 students at a time through hands-on and virtual reality instruction.

After 120 hours of training in the mobile unit, students will be ready for entry into 13 trades unions.

Owned and operated by UA Local 412, the mobile classroom will move throughout Northern New Mexico, including Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos counties, for the next two years, bringing training in the skilled trades to rural and tribal communities.

“We are excited to launch this innovative initiative to meet students where they are and support their success,” college President Hector Balderas said in a news release.

“With strengthened partnerships like ours with Union 412 and our faculty’s dedication to making Northern the premier educational destination for career technical trades, we look forward to growing even more opportunities for students to find the careers they want right here at home.”

The unveiling will take place at Northern New Mexico College’s Center for the Arts from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Visit https://tinyurl. com/38th5pmjto reserve a seat.

NONPROFIT TO HOST COMMUNITY STORYTELLING CELEBRATION

Santa Fe-based nonprofit Littleglobe Inc. will host a film screening to celebrate the participants of the 2023 Community Storytellers project, a story-based initiative intended to train community members to use multimedia storytelling and filmmaking to tell Santa Fe’s stories, especially ones that are often overlooked or underrepresented.

This year’s class of Community Storytellers — who were paid to learn how to tell engaging stories, interview subjects and use audio and video technologies — will present varied stories, including ones telling the story of a Native American woman archaeologist, the complexity of having Hispanic heritage in New Mexico and a young artist carrying on traditions.

The film screening will take place at 7 p.m. on Dec. 5 at the Center for Contemporary Arts.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are $20, with half of proceeds going toward the 2024 Community Storytellers program, which is slated to begin in February.

For more information, visit the event site at fb.me/e/1EJgCEaIm.