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LEADERS of the Piedmont Vocational Education Foundation, Inc. broke ground on October 22 for the Foundation’s first house-building project-a program designed to provide on-the-job experience for carpentry and related-trade students in the regional vocational education schools.
Students at Piedmont Technical Education Center on Route 15 South of Culpeper have dug a basement and are preparing the foundation for the three-bedroom rambler type home they will construct within the next 18 months. The house is intended to sell on the open market for $25,000 to $30,000.
A two-acre building lot located on Route 648 in Culpeper County, only two miles from the Piedmont Technical Education Foundation, Inc. Profits from the sale of this first student-built home on this site will be channeled entirely into future house-building or other vocational education projects.
To familiarize local business, governmental, and civic leaders with the non-profit foundation’s first house-building project, a special “kick-off” meeting was held on Friday, October 22, at the Piedmont Technical Education Center, which serves the public schools of Orange, Culpeper, Madison, and Rappahannock Counties.
Dr. S. John Davis, Division Superintendent of schools for Fairfax County, made the first-ever public showing of a new film of a recent house-building project by the Fairfax County Vocational Education Foundation, and reviewed other
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