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Central Carolina Community College President Bud Marchant (left); Dan Gerlach, president of the Golden LEAF Foundation, and Ted Lord (back right), vice president of programs/staff attorney for the Foundation, look over the hydraulics station in CCCC's Industry Training Center as Cathy Swindell, CCCC Industry Services director, explains the training workers receive on the equipment. A $447,000 grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation paid for the equipment in the ITC's welding shop and industry skills lab, including the hydraulics station. Gerlach and Lord visited Nov. 13 to see the impact of the grant. The ITC is located in the Innovation Center at the Lee County Industrial Park.

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Dan Gerlach (left), president of the Golden LEAF Foundation, talks with Caterpillar employees Michael Thompson (center), endurance field test lead, and M.P. Spierer, engineer, about some of the work they do in the welding class taught for the company at Central Carolina Community College's Industry Training Center. A $447,000 grant from the Foundation provided the equipment in the ITC's welding shop and industry skills lab. Gerlach and Ted Lord (not pictured), vice president of programs/staff attorney for the Foundation, visited Nov. 13 to see the impact of the grant. The ITC is located in the Innovation Center at the Lee County Industrial Park.