Safety is the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s top priority.

Improving trades training outcomes and employability for trades students and apprentices is the goal of an innovative program developed by Camosun College for delivery at Riverside College, thanks to $49,980 in funding from the Province of British Columbia and the Industry Training Authority (ITA).

Provincial funding of $15 million will deliver 40 units of transitional housing and shelter space for men and women in need at a proposed purpose-built development in Mission.

Visitors soon will have more camping opportunities in the Mission area with the construction of 60 new campsites in time for the upcoming camping season.

Students in the Mission School District will benefit from almost $1.8 million in provincial funding for school upgrade projects, classroom supplies and a new school bus, MLA Marc Dalton announced on behalf of Education Minister Mike Bernier.

Skilled-trades students in the Mission School District will benefit from a three-year, $15-million investment by the B.C. government to support youth trades programs with the purchase of new trades-training equipment.

Students, teachers and staff at Windebank Elementary school in the Mission school district will benefit from $375,000 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

A Hells Angel who was reportedly “annoyed” when a drug lab on property he co-owned led to a civil forfeiture action has nevertheless agreed to give up his entire interest in the industrial building.