Assiniboine Group Faculty has named a scholar house within the Len Evans Centre for Trades and Know-how on the faculty’s North Hill campus, “Mazergroup Most important Avenue”, to honour a $500,000 donation and longtime help from a Westman-born agricultural staple, Bob Mazer.
Mazer has been a long-time supporter of trades programming on the faculty, offering an entrance award annually to college students within the Agriculture Tools Technician and Heavy Obligation Technician applications and commonly loaning tools to those applications for hands-on studying alternatives.
In fall 2021, the school introduced that Mazergroup was increasing their help with a $500,000 donation to Assiniboine’s ongoing marketing campaign for the Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
“This announcement is simply one other step in a really lengthy, shut relationship between Mazergroup and Assiniboine. All of us at Mazergroup imagine very emphatically that Assiniboine helps Manitobans create higher lives for themselves and their households by every kind of coaching, however particularly, throughout the ag sector,” mentioned Bob Mazer, President and CEO of Mazergroup. “The Prairie Innovation Centre will tremendously improve the connection between our business and the scholars that can and are creating our future skilled work power. Mazergroup may be very proud to be a part of this subsequent step within the evolution of such a fantastic establishment.”
The brand new Mazergroup Most important Avenue house is a part of a typical space that fosters connection for college students, the place they will meet, loosen up, and converse of their free time.
Mazer is a previous chair of the school’s Board of Governors and recipient of an honorary diploma.
“Mazergroup and Bob himself, for years, have been champions of what we’re working to perform right here on the faculty. Now, our faculty has a vital function to play in making certain there are folks skilled and able to step into careers within the agriculture sector, and once more, Bob has stepped in to help,” mentioned Mark Frison, President at Assiniboine. “It’s our pleasure to have the ability to acknowledge their beneficiant contributions, and the worth they carry to the way forward for the agriculture business and faculty in an space that displays the place their help started.”
The Prairie Innovation Centre, which goals to increase seats in agriculture-related programming from 300 to greater than 800, might be positioned at Assiniboine’s North Hill campus in Brandon.
