JOB CORPS February is celebrated around the world as Black History Month. On February 26, Shriver celebrated by hosting the Black History Performance. Our wonderful emcee’s Mr. Mensah and Ms. Williams hyped up the crowd with little known facts. Kaeisha Thomas and Tyrell Pratt...
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Painting Helping OA Go Green
Auto At Work
On February 17, 2016 the Shriver Automotive class along with Darlene Buelow the Work Base Learning Coordinator, were invited by Kyle Horeanopoulos, the Service Director, at Prime Toyota in Lancaster, MA. The students were invited to take a tour of the Toyota...
Taco Wars
An empty tortilla is a blank canvas for a Chef. Student Victor Baez has shared his family recipe on how to make homemade tortillas! The students are preparing home-made tortillas for their taco challenge. Allowing the students to think outside their taste buds is a...
Hammering things out for St. Patricks Day Parade
A few months back, Carpentry instructors, Mr. Akers and Mr. Basilio, took delivery of the Carpenters Local #107's (their union) Mechanical Hammer for a rebuild. The hammer was damaged and worn out when it arrived. After the hammer was stripped down and repaired by...
Carpenters in Training!
The New England Carpenters training fund instructor Brian Connearney came by the carpentry shop to talk to the students about the new carpentry curriculum called Career Connections. This new set of books, if completed by our carpentry students, creates a better...
Shriver Student Speaks to Chelmsford Rotary Members
Dominique Mosley Graves, a CNA student at Shriver Job Corps spoke at the recent Chelmsford Rotary Club meeting in January 2016. Mr. Graves was accompanied by the Outreach and Admissions Counselor, Denise Perrault. The Chelmsford Rotary invited the OA Counselor to do a...
Painting Refurbishing Old Church Benches
WBL Paint Students Makeover Benches Because It was determined that there was a lack of seating in the E&T buildings hall ways, Shriver C.D. Ms. Oneal took it upon herself to find some appropriate benches to install throughout the building. She found these older...
Experiencing the Real World Through Groundhog Day
Groundhog Shadow Day was a huge success! Students from all over center shadowed various jobs the past two weeks. Thank you to all those who participated in giving our students a chance to work in a real job setting.
Shriver lending a helping hand
This whole week, the Shriver Paint Students and their instructor, worked on painting Grafton's Wellness suite. The wellness suite was badly damaged due to a sprinkler head letting loose in the dorms above, so the path of least resistance led the water to flood the...
Carpentry At Work
Students from Carpentry worked on replacing the vinyl cove base in Mr. Kilpatrick's, the new CTT/Academics manager, office this week.
100% return for Non Res!!!!!
The Shriver Non Res students did it AGAIN! For the second year in a row, the Non Res students along with their Counselor, Mr. Mensah, have had a 100% return from Winter Break. Students earned a trip to Dave and Buster’s in Providence, RI where they gamed and shopped...
USS Massachusetts gets a new look from the Paint shop
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) This January the Shriver Paint students, along with Instructor Tim Yost and IUPAT Field Coordinator Al Gomes, were able to take on a joint project with the IUPAT DC-35 industrial apprentices...
Spirits Lifted at Apple Valley
It was frigid outside this week but six students brought warmth to the residents of an assisted living center in Ayer, MA. There were plenty of smiles as they bowled, played catch and read books at the Apple Valley Center. Thank you to CPP students Biar Kor, Daniel...
Cement at Work
The Cement Shop students spent last week learning one of the most important basic trade skills - How to level concrete to a specific grade or elevation with a straight edge. This is an elementary skill which all cement masons must possess. Nicely done!
Puppy Sitting
On Thursday SGA Students got the chance to spend time with some wonderful furry friends at the Sterling Animal Shelter. Although the shelter provides a very comfortable environment for the animals, there is always a need for blankets during the harsh, bitter-cold...
Community Service for the New Year
Thirteen Shriver students performed community service at the Senior Center in Shirley, MA this week. They set up tables and prepared for a veterans breakfast held at the center the following morning. Kathryn Becker, the Director of the Shirley Council on Aging was...
Shriver’s first Citizen Police Academy Completion
On December 9th the Ayer Police Department hosted it’s 16th Ayer Citizen’s Police Academy completion ceremony at the town hall. Sgt. John MacDonald and Lt. Brian Gill were on hand to present certificates to the class which included six Shriver JCC students and one...
Shriver Students lending a helping hands
This past Monday the Shriver JCC Cement Shop was on hand to participate in a local community ser-vice project. The students placed and finished 30 feet of concrete sidewalk for the most recent Habitat for Humanity site in Fitchburg, MA. Several times each...