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Gov. Corbett To Visit LCTI Thursday
Gov. Tom Corbett will announce a grant for Lehigh Career & Technical Institute's Manufacturers Resource Center and then meet with Parkland School District officials.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett will visit Lehigh Career & Technical Institute Thursday to award a grant to the school's Manufacturers Resource Center.
The Skill-Up the Student Pipeline grant is being awarded to support advanced manufacturing in Pennsylvania at 2 p.m., according to a news release.
Later Thursday afternoon, Corbett will meet with administrators and directors of the Parkland School District. That meeting is closed to the public.
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Also making remarks at the LCTI news conference will be Sandra Himes, executive director of Lehigh Career & Technical Institute and president of the Manufacturers Resource Center Board of Directors; Peter Rittenhouse, executive director, Nestle Waters-North America and Jack Pfunder of the Manufacturers Resource Center.
Prior to awarding the grant, Corbett will tour the LCTI campus.
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