If you’re like me, you spent the last few minutes of Friday night checking off one missing number after another. If you’re not like me, well then disregard the previous message.
Putting lottery woes aside, sink into welding night, welding classes and more in this edition of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!
Special News
The Family That Welds Together, Stays Together
Dave’s Welding Service is a family business. . . . He’s proud of the fact that they’ve been able to keep all their employees, even during challenging times. His employees appreciate it as well.
Students weld special feeders for El Paso Zoo elephants
A group of students at El Dorado High School are using their welding skills to help two very large, four-legged mammals that can hold 2 ½ gallons of water in their trunks.
Welding Events
Owens has motorsports welding night
Owens Community College's School of Technology, the Northwest Ohio Chapter of the American Welding Society and Lincoln Electric Motorsports are inviting area racing car and truck enthusiasts to the Toledo-area campus April.
Welding Industry
BOC arc projectors take welding to new level – AUSTRALIA
The arc projectors are state-of-the-art training and demonstration tools that display the effect on the welding arc when different shielding gases are used, helping end-users select the right product and enabling significant efficiencies, productivity and quality improvements.
Welding Jobs
Need a new career or just need to fix that tractor? Try Lynnes Welding
Welding can be a good career choice both for those interested in taking a short-term course to repair their own equipment on the farm or those looking to work in the manufacturing field during the off-season on the farm.
Welding Programs
Free welding class helps put people back to work
Dozens of people affected by the BP oil spill are going back to college to learn a new trade. The organization Asian Americans for Change is teaming-up with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to offer free welding classes. It's a program that's already putting people back to work.
South Africa: Welding School Sparks New Hope for Youth
The newly launched Eskom Academy of Learning (EAL) Welding School will see at least 700 young people trained as high class welders, said the parastatal.
Welding Students
Local students participate in welding competition
Students from three Fulton County high schools competed at the 2012 Annual High School Welding Competition sponsored by Midwest Technical Institute.
High schools join off-road competition
There’s nothing like a contest to stir up interest and expectation in a sporting event, and High Desert Racing Association has done just that in anticipation of its Imperial 250 off-road race April 7.
Adventure Girls take on welding
Six adventure girls recently learned how to use a torch and weld their own metal garden stakes and hanging pieces with Eda and Dave Benttinen of D&E Metalworks.
Welding Gone Wrong
Fire destroys Youngstown auto body shop before business even opens
Thick black smoke blanketed the sky for miles in Youngstown as fire engulfed a warehouse on Madison Avenue, just after noon on Monday.
$7.5 Million Pot Bust In Parker County
A sharp eye and a keen nose led to a multi-million pot bust here on Thursday.
When breaking news attacks: Welding at former Carl's Jr. starts grease fire, blocks traffic in downtown Portland
A small grease fire started after contractors doing welding work on the former Carl's Jr. at Southwest Fifth Avenue and Taylor Street bottled up traffic and led to the evacuations of several nearby businesses.
Man Burned at Metals Recycling Yard
A Schnitzer worker yesterday was severely burned at the company's Cartersville metals recycling yard. The man was airlifted to an area hospital following an accident with a cutting torch,The Daily Tribune News reports.