FORMER RBA PRESIDENT GETS PRISON TIME
Steilacoom, WA.

Ed Fraser, CMB and Tina Powers, CMB spent a day in the McNeil Island Correctional Center on the 27th of December 2007. After an intense screening they were given a 20 minute boat ride to the island, and escorted to the prison bakery. Waiting there for them were two inmates with determination to become Certified Bakers.

Pierce College started a baking program in September of 2006, at the correctional facility. Two of the students qualified for the CB exam and family members initially paid for the test. (the college later picked up the tab) Baking student/inmates do not get paid for going to school, which is 7 hours per day, 4 days a week, so most have other facility jobs which pay 47 cents per hour, and work when they are not attending class. Since inmates are not mobile it makes it difficult to go somewhere for a certification test. The RBA has been very supportive in trying to work with us at the prison. We were very lucky to have Ed and Tina fairly close to us, and willing to give some time to judge the test for us. Both have judged CB, CMB and Skills USA tests and are very qualified evaluators. Each candidate passed the test and were the 85th and 86th Certified Bakers.

From left to right: Michael J. Stegenga, CB, Tina Powers, CMB, Scott Riedesel, CB and Ed Fraser, CMB

Back to RBA Education/Certification