I knew that the Tool & Die trade was going downhill fast around the year 2000, because among other things, I stopped getting calls from kids looking to start an apprenticeship. The apprenticeship program was such a wonderful way for hundreds of years of knowledge and experience to be passed from one generation to the
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(Note: This was an editorial that I wrote for the Erie Small Business Alliance in March 2008…still works! What’s the reality for a town when it loses a ton of good-paying manufacturing jobs? If you’re a subscriber to Pat Howard’s go.erie.com blog, you’ve probably been as fascinated as I am by the opinions being offered
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I remember in first grade having “penmanship” drilled into me by the nuns at St. James School. From that moment on, I always took pride in my handwriting, which isn’t nearly as good as it used to be and now I have to concentrate on it if I want it to look good. Then, along
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Hard to believe, but there used to be a tool & die shop on almost every corner in Erie, PA. That’s me in 1981 at Anson Tools & Gages right here in Erie. Which came first – the tool & die industry, or the plastics industry? Without a doubt, the tool & die industry supported
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