JOB CORPS When Rebecca Schowalter, Purchasing Agent, ordered supplies from Grand Junction's Lowes, she made friends with Gary Koney, Sales Manager, and Larry Nelson, Commercial Sales Specialist, inviting them to attend the center's Community Relations dinner. Koney and Nelson...
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Regional Assistance from Collbran Job Corps
For over twenty-five years Collbran Job Corps has served as Mesa County’s main source of manpower in this upper valley region when the surrounding streams and rivers threaten to flood. Curt White, Collbran Job Corps’ Facilities Operations Specialist, and Acting Work...
Clean Up By Collbran Job Corps
Every year as part of their Community Service activities, the Collbran Job Corps participates in a Community Clean Up Day in the Spring. This is a picture of the “kids” sweeping and “spiffing up” the road around the Collbran Office on Friday, April 15. Monica Klingler...
Universal Safety Week at Collbran Job Corps
For the second year, Collbran Job Corps students learned from one another about safety in their vocational training in a "Wheel of Fortune" inspired competition. Carpentry students built the wheel; students submitted safety questions from each trade; and teams of five...
Collbran Job Corps Students Serve Others
One night a week six to eight Collbran Job Corps students assist in serving dinner, sometimes the only hot meal area migrant workers and their children receive each day. Students also clean-up following the meal. Once a month Collbran Job Corps students assist at the...
Mobile Bobcat Arrives at Collbran Job Corps
The Colorado Laborers' and Contractors' Education and Training Fund loaded its mobile bobcat on a semi in Brighton, Colorado, drove five hours, over the Continental Divide (mountain passes), to bring two full days of training to this remote Job Corps center. Special...
Collbran Job Corps Enters National Robotics Challenge
Ever hear of F.I.R.S.T. (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC)? FIRST’s website (www.usfirst.org/frc) describes the competition: “The varsity sport for the mind,” FRC combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of...
Know Your Farmer/Know Your Food
Taking advantage of Collbran Job Corps' rich farming/ranching location and students interest in the origin of the food they eat and the importance of keeping the environment safe, the center recently invited Collbran’s local butcher; veterinarian; a member of the...
Skilled Nursing Health Care Facility Works with Collbran Job Corps
Gail Dutton, Dietary Manager, La Villa Grand Care Center, Grand Junction, Colorado, said, "Collbran Job Corps students work at our facility as prep cooks. They prepare chefs salads, fresh fruit plates, and sandwiches...'back of the house' work. The students also take...
Quality Time With Kindergarten Students
When Collbran Lion's Club called Susan Nichols, Principal, Grand Mesa High School, Collbran Job Corps, to ask if Job Corps students could assist at the local elementary school, her response was, "Yes!" The club purchases personalized books for the kindergarten class...
Collbran Job Corps on the radio
Marc Foster, Executive Director, KAFM Radio (www.kafmradio.org), the only local community radio station in the Grand Valley, invited James Smith, Collbran Job Corps student; Bobbi Benesch, Work Based Learning Coordinator; and Evonne Stites, Reading Instructor, Grand...
Collbran Job Corps Selected to Produce Brochure
The National Office of the USDA Forest Service, which operates 28 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, recently selected Collbran Job Corps to produce its 2010 Program Highlights brochure. Business Technology Instructor, Marilyn Anderson, reported that students...
Job Corps Academy
Its reputation of excellence in training students for the workforce resulted in Collbran Job Corps Center's (CJCC) selection to house the Job Corps Academy. Through a partnership with the Albuquerque New Mexico Service Center, Forest Service Job Corps students from...
Gearing Up For Robotics!
Collbran Job Corps students joined their 2011 mentors, machinists and students from Mesa State College to view the live-link presentation of US FIRST Robotics Kickoff.
TaShae Simpkins-How Job Corps Has Impacted My Life
Job Corps has impactrd my life in numerous ways. I can't say that I had a ton of problems in my life shortly before Job Corps except that I was spoiled, not in college, just not where I wanted to be in life. I had two jobs in the past two years. I worked at Wendy's...
Make a Difference Day Makes a Financial Impact on the Communities
Sometimes the communities surrounding a Job Corps Center know there is an impact on community service but may not be totally aware of how deep that impact really is. Recently, Collbran Job Corps Center participated in the annual National Make a Difference Day. ...
Collbran Students Tell What the Fuel Supression Team Means to Them
Fire Crew has been a great opportunity for my friend and me. We go out on crews and do field work. Field work involves wood chipping and cleaning up twiggy areas. The nonth of September, we travelled to Dillon, Colorado to work on the beetle kill. For all four weeks...
Collbran Job Corps Center Establishes a Fuel Suppression Team for the Forest Service
NBC interview wth Collbran student
For the first time, a major NBC affiliate from Denver, CO traveled to Collbran Job Corps Center to see the only center in Colorado and to talk with the students. Copy and paste the link below to see and hear Niko Garcia tell his story himself. Without script or...
Global Youth Service Day: Collbran
Global Youth Service Day was a very productive day around the Collbran Job Corps Center. Collbran Job Corps students participated with several members of the city of Collbran, including city council members and employees of the State Highway Department. There main...