A group of students from Loyalist College are putting their skills to the test to help front line workers.
Fourteen students in the Carpentry and Renovation Techniques and Technician program at the college are coming together to build a shelter to help COVID-19 assessment centre front line workers get out of the cold.
The drive-thru centre in Belleville sees approximately 170 people per day and Quinte Health Care attendants as well as Hastings-Quinte Paramedics spend hours each day helping run the tests. The insulated shelter will take around two weeks to build and will allow students to build skills in floor, roof and wall framing among other skills. The structure itself will be nine feet by six feet.
The college also announced that the winter semester students in the same program will be building a structure for the front line workers at the COVID-19 assessment centre in Trenton.
