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THUNDER BAY: The chimney hit over the weekend to the government-approved motorcycle protection course in northwestern Ontario, however, the program will continue with other quick fixes.
The Friday night blaze destroyed the building formerly used by Buchanan Northern Hardwoods on Vibert Road in Oliver Paipoonge.
In this building, there were two study rooms that were nearly complete for others taking the course presented through the Northwest Ontario Motorcycle Safety Training Organization.
“We were standing back, before the fire, admiring our work and saying how good it was going to be…We kind of got kicked a little bit, but we’ll persevere and move on,” said Greg Stein, the director and chief instructor.
Continue means that the program will be presented as planned, starting July 31, a portable indoor training classroom and two giant steel shipping boxes for storage.
Stein said it is still ideal for motorcycle training, with 14,000 square meters of asphalt.
Because COVID-19 halted plans to start the program in May, between 150 and two hundred people are already waiting to fulfill it.
The first group to enrol will be those who registered before the pandemic put the course on hold.
All brokers will be contacted to register first at one address, followed by those on the waiting list, before the registration, the organization’s online page, is open to others.
Stein said taking the course made it “pretty mandatory” through insurance companies.
“They don’t need to give insurance to other people if they don’t have their M2 course and license, so the course meets any of the needs,” he said.
The program’s payment increased to $625 this year due to the need to take precautions opposed to COVID-19, combined with the charge of moving past education to Confederation College.
“It’s unfortunate, but that’s how it deserves to be. We’re a nonprofit organization, so it’s absorbing that kind of costs,” Stein said.
It is positioned in an evening with elegance and in two days by motorcycle.
Stein and his colleagues still have a facility that is the envy of the motorcycle education company across Canada.
“We can’t wait to move on. We have a lot of area here with the possibility of doing off-road training, and so on,” he said.
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