Kara Frehlich Wins Frank Kooger Skills Canada Award

DATE: October 06, 2011

Calgary—Local 63 member Kara Frehlich has won the $2,000 Frank Kooger Skills Canada Award, which CLAC awards annually to a registered apprentice who has advanced to the provincial or territorial Skills Canada competition.

In May 2011, Kara competed in the Alberta provincial Skills Competition in Edmonton and finished in fifth place. She has been employed by Strathcona Mechanical in Calgary since January 2011 working on the $440 million Trades and Technology Complex for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). Both her mother, Vanessa, and father, Joel, also are employed by Strathcona Mechanical.

Kara is taking her third year plumbing apprenticeship schooling at SAIT during September and October and plans to return to work with Strathcona Mechanical in November. Since she is able to take her schooling at the same location where she works, many of her colleagues were on hand to congratulate her on winning the Frank Kooger Skills Canada Award.

“I am very grateful to CLAC for their support of me through this apprenticeship award,” she says. “I was pleased to represent both Strathcona Mechanical and CLAC at this year’s competition and am hopeful I can do so again next year.”
 

Kara Frehlich and Randy Klassen, Calgary director. Kara’s parents are pictured behind her, along with a number of her colleagues from Strathcona Mechanical.