The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) has a few extra hands helping out this summer. The organization hired 17 summer students last week thanks to special federal and provincial funding.
RVCA general manager Sommer Casgrain-Robertson says “we are grateful for the hard work and enthusiasm that our local youth bring to support our conservation authority work. We are also thankful for the special federal and provincial funding that makes it possible.”
Canada Summer Jobs and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Summer Experience Program help cover costs for student positions, including camp counselors, life guards, stewardship labourers, park technicians, water resource technicians and regulations assistants.
Many of the students are local and most work a full four months before heading back to school in the fall.
Casgrain-Robertson says “we strive to provide meaningful and valuable work experience that will help our youth with future employment.”
For more information, visit rvca.ca.