JOB CORPS Gary Job Corps In-Service Training Gary Job Corps students in the Overhead Linesman vocation are currently replacing power poles throughout the 800 acre campus. The Advanced Overhead Linesman Trade which is currently offered at the Gary Job Corps Center is now in its...
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Gary Job Corps spreads Christmas Cheer
Christmas Cheer Students and staff from the Gary Job Corps Center donate toys to the residents of the Hays County Women’s Center and the Central Texas Children’s Home. Additionally, a cash donation of $300 was given to the Children’s Home and a widescreen TV for the...
Commemorative Oath of Enlistment
In celebration of Veteran’s Day 2011, San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero recently designated “Army Day” in San Marcos, Texas and read a proclamation expressing the appreciation of the young men and women who took the Commemorative Oath of Enlistment given by LTC David A. Grant, Battalion Commander, Recruiting Battalion San Antonio. Forty individuals from San Marcos, Gary Job Corps, Buda, Kyle, Lockhart, Luling, Bastrop, New Braunfels, and other central Texas cities stood at attention receiving the Oath of Enlistment and listening to presentations by Lonnie Hall, Center Director Gary Job Corps, LTC David A. Grant, Capt. Camille A. Cunningham, Company Commander, Army Recruiting San Marcos, and San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero. Pictured are future Army Enlistees, local Army Recruiters, Lonnie Hall, LTC Grant, Capt. Cunningham, Debbie Gonzalez-Ingalsbe, Hays County Commissioner, David Peterson, Hays County Constable, San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero, Hope Henry, Gary Job Corps PCA Coordinator, and students from the Panther Club Association Gary Job Corps. Thanks to all Veterans and future Service Members for your committment to the safety and freedom of our Country.
Gary Job Corps Joins America’s Largest Day of Service
Gary Job Corps JOINS AMERICA’S LARGEST DAY OF SERVICE Gary Job Corps joined an estimated 3 million people participating simultaneously in “Make A Difference Day” activities nationwide by having over 500 students assisting with the clean-up of the devastating fire that...
Gary Job Corps Students, Staff, Supporters Celebrate National Job Corps Commencement Day
Keynote Speaker Texas House Representative Jason Isaac Applauds Graduates. Local officials, business leaders, Job Corps staff, students and family members joined 85 students graduating from Gary Job Corps in San Marcos, Texas Tuesday August 30th to celebrate National...
Little Dresses for Africa
Changing lives one little dress at a time…. Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit 501c3, Christian based organization which provides relief to the children of Africa. Simple dresses are made out of pillow cases and distributed through the orphanages, churches and...
Congressmen Lloyd Doggett and Francisco Canseco Intern Gary Job Corps Students
As part of the first-ever "Mentor a Job Corps Student Day, sponsored by the Friends of Job Corps Congressional Caucus and National Job Corps Association, Congressmen Lloyd Doggett and Francisco Canseco hosted students from the Gary Job Corps Center for a one-day...
Gary Job Corps Students help with Juneteenth Celebrations
Students participated in Juneteenth Parade down the streets of San Marcos Texas Celebrating the Emancipation of the Slaves in Texas two and a half years after the inital Emancipation Proclamation. Following the Parade students from the Gary Job Corps Corrections and...
Gary Job Corps Global Youth Service Day
Global Youth Service Day Students and staff from the Gary Job Corps Center have been involved with the Global Youth Service Activities for the past 10 years. Global Youth Service Day is an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and...
Congressman Henry Cuellar visit Gary Job Corps
Congressman Cuellar visits Gary Job Corps and ALERRT Congressman Henry Cuellar, Co-Chair Friends of Job Corps Congressional Caucus, visits the Gary Job Corps Center and as a member of the Homeland Security Committee toured the ALERRT Center. The Congressman visited...
Gary Job Corps Heart Walk Team
The Gary Job Corps Panther Club Association had a team in the Great San Marcos American Heart Walk that took place on March 26th at the Texas State University Bobcat Stadium. Many local organizations, schools, civic, social, and businesses put teams in the WALK. ...
Groundhog Shadowing with Mayor and Texas House Represenative
Groundhog Job Shadow Day As the groundhog gets ready to look for his shadow, Gary Job Corps will join thousands of employers and students around the country who are taking part in Groundhog Shadow Day. Since 1996, this initiative to engage students in the world of...
Congressman Cuellar, Co-Chair Job Corps Caucus
Congressman Henry Cuellar 28th Congressional District, Texas FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 10, 2010 Contact: Lesley Lopez Press Secretary 202-225-1640 Cuellar TO CO-CHAIR JOB...
Faces of Job Corps: Monzel A.
Faces of Job Corps Monzel Anderson At 14 Monzel came to the United States from Port-au-Prince Haiti, his mother had recently married a soldier in the US Army. They all moved to Ft. Hood in Killeen then later to Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio. Monzel’s classroom...
Faces of Job Corps-Esmeralda C.
Esmeralda C. was born in Edinburg, Texas the first of her family born in the United States, she graduated from Edinburg High School in 1997 but the only prospects for employment in South Texas(the Valley having the highest unemployment rate in Texas) were minimum...
Faces of Job Corps-David B.
Faces of Job Corps-David B.
David came to the Gary Job Corps Center in August 2009 from Houston, Texas. He said that "Iwas doing nothing with my life, living witrh my grandmother, I was in college and dropped out". My grandmother was looking at TV and saw the commerical about the...
From Iowa to Texas
From Iowa to Texas” Kyle Patrol Officer Dago P. has had a journey to get to Texas. Dago graduated form Fredericksburg High School in Fredericksburg, Iowa and with his parents and family came to Texas for a change of scenery. In Iowa Dago felt that the career...
Faces of Job Corps: Steve S.
Steve. graduated from Gary Job Corps in October 1985, he came to the Center in May 1983. Currently he is the General Manager for KAZI-FM Radio in Austin, Texas where he has been for 20 years. He came from Alexandria, Louisiana where he said that there was not much...
Faces of Job Corps: Wendy M.
Wendy was born in McAllen, Texas, but raised in Reynosa, Mexico. She moved to the United States in 1994, unable to speak or write English. She attended Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas, and was a vivacious learner. “Thanks to them,” she says, “I learned...