Prince Charles Secondary School graduate Hartley Matthews is the recipient of the Creston-Kootenay Foundation Youth bursary and plans to attend North Island College in Courtney in September 2013. He intends to complete plumbing and pipefitting courses and work towards his Red Seal journeyman ticket.
Later, Matthews will take a course in blacksmithing offered at Selkirk College in Nelson. This will complement creative abilities already demonstrated in metal work.
The CKF Youth originated in the early years of the Creston-Kootenay Foundation. At that time, the Vancouver Foundation matched amounts raised by youth over a period of three years. Interest from this money generates enough for an annual $500 bursary to a PCSS graduate for further education. In keeping with the wishes of the young people who raised those funds, the bursary goes to assist a student in the field of arts and skills.
—JULIE EWASHEN