Center Director Eric Jones announced that the Bamberg Job Corps Center has been ranked 28^th of 122 Job Corps Centers throughout the country.  The reality, he explained, “is that we are number one the in the DOL Atlanta Region.  There are four Job Corps Center in Georgia, three in North Carolina, five in Florida, seven in Kentucky, but only one in South Carolina.  Of all of these we have been ranked as number one.  “The ranking is dependent upon the success of our students,” he said.  “For example, our students are required to provide 350 hours of community service in their trade area.”

Bamberg County is moving forward, State Rep. Bakari Sellers told the attendees at the Bamberg Job Corps Center’s Community Relations Luncheon last week.  “By the end of the year,” he said “you will begin to see construction on Highway 78 between Bamberg and Denmark.  They’ve been talking about widening this stretch of road since before I was born” he quipped, “Before March (2012) we will begin widening Highway 78.

Sellers announced last week at the Bamberg Job Corps Centers Community Relations luncheon that he has been invited to be part of a small contingent of young South Carolina leaders who will meet President Barack Obama.  “I will have a briefing with the president’s senior staff on housing and the economy,” Sellers said.