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Home Builders Foundation Project Manager Chris McDowell manned the tractor as it gingerly moved two large sheds into the small backyard behind Project Homeless Connect in Hillsboro.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives.

Construction training programs that were forced to go virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic are celebrating a return to in-person classes and career events, though others have been postponed until next year when conditions hopefully will be a bit more certain.

Madelyn Elder worked as a cable splicer in Seattle and Portland for more than 20 years before joining Oregon Tradeswomen in 2014. Elder, who retired from OTW in June, recalls the freedom and independence she felt while climbing poles and splicing cable.

Carter Myers recalls working as a laborer for his father when he was 10 or 12 years old, helping out on the jobsites of custom homes his dad built in Arizona and Hawaii.