Making the bed for charity - and learning

Making the bed has never been this much fun – or educational. But these beds aren’t for sleep: they’re for racing. Fourteen high school students of the Belleville-based Algonquin Technology Centre are building six metal “beds” for the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual bed races on June 22. The event will raise funds for four new stretchers for the emergency department; each stretcher costs about $11,000. The tech centre is operated by the Algonquin