Sunday May 25th, 2014

Posted at 11:21pm

Firefighters prepare to pack up following a small blaze in the 500 block of Wyandotte Street East

Windsor firefighters have extinguished a string of small rubbish fires in the downtown area, Sunday afternoon and evening.

Firefighters were called in the afternoon to the 800 block of Dougall and found garbage burning. The fire did not spread to neighbouring buildings and was extinguished within minutes.

Just before 3pm, fire crews were called to Wyandotte Street East at Langlois where a couch and several items of garbage were burning. The fire produced a fair amount of smoke, some of which entered a neighbouring building. Firefighters knocked down the flames in minutes and police shut Wyandotte down to traffic temporarily.

Around 8:30pm, three fire trucks were called to the areaTwo weeks ago, I represented the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the second annual Partner Summit for 100Kin10. Formed in 2011, 100Kin10 is an affiliated network of over 150 diverse organizations all focused on improving the odds that current and future generations of American school children will benefit from excellent instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Needs

The need for better STEM education is clear. A recent study by Georgetown professor Anthony P. Carnavale and colleagues at the Center on Education and the Workforce found growing demand both for traditional STEM occupations as well as for STEM competencies across the labor force.

Source: Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce

But because not enough young people are inspired to pursue advanced study in the STEM fields, the nation