I would like to sincerely thank you for the amazing work you and your staff have done for Skills Canada Yukon.

Skills Canada Yukon has been a very active organization for over 10 years, during this time it has been our mandate to reach out to our audience youth aged 15-30 years of age in an effort to engage them in trades and technology careers. We have done so through several outlets web page, local newspapers and as you are very aware, lately your radio station.

The Yukon has enjoyed unprecedented success of late and the word is catching on like wildfire to every single community in the Yukon. We enjoyed a Yukon Territorial Skills Competition with over 1000 people in attendance but you must know this as CKRW was on site encouraging Yukoners to visit Yukon College on competition day well done, participation number like these rarely are seen in the Yukon.

I would like to share a statistic with you, before we entered into our relationship with the RUSH our website would receive anywhere from 8 to 18 hits per month. This number may be a bit more encouraging during an event but not a significant increase.

Fast forward to a meeting we had in your office not that many months ago where you tried to assure me that CKRW was the forum we needed to reach our audience. Honestly, I was hesitant at the time; now with the amazing success coupled with a recent Website Statistics report.

In just over 4 months of our partnership with the RUSH we have had 6,555 visitors, the average has been 46.10 visitors a day the peak was 54.36 per day. Pages viewed per visit vary but average 2.78 per visit and the length of time per is 1:52.

Now when puzzled faces ask me what happened to see such an amazing surge I can tell them it was the RUSH after all that's where the winners tune in we have the medals to prove it - 3 silver and 2 bronze with one going to the World Skills 2009.

Thank you, you made me and all of us at Skills Yukon believers.

Sincerely,

Dan Curtis

Executive Director

Skills Canada Yukon