One day last week, Darin Schmiedt, Woonsocket’s Industrial Technology Instructor, took advantage of a local connection to the Wilbur-Ellis aviation department to take his students in his aviation class on an informative field trip. Woonsocket resident Brandon Goergen just happens to work for Wilbur-Ellis as an aviation mechanic at the Wilbur-Ellis hangar in Huron, so he and a co-worker, Nich Matthews, answered questions and took the students on a tour of their facility. Matthews is one of the spray-plane pilots for Wilbur-Ellis, so he and Goergen worked together to explain all the elements of working in their department.

…See pictures in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!