Nearly 50 students and five staff members from Sacramento Job Corps Center celebrated Global Youth Services Day by tackling two community service projects. Nearly 20 students and Cement Masonry Instructor Doc Pickett completed a week-long project April 11-15 to replace the stage in St. Anne’s Church in the Meadowview community. The SJCC volunteers removed the old stage in the church and constructed a new, cement one. The students used the masonry and carpentry skills learned in their career technical training program for this project. While the church paid for all materials, the students and staff donated their time and labor, saving the community church thousands of dollars.

Thirty students from the carpentry, facilities maintenance and landscaping programs traveled to the William Land Park, home of First Tee of Sacramento, for a day of park maintenance. Students, supervised by Bill Katsifolis, CTST coordinator; Chaney Colton, landscape instructor; Logo Tuimaseve, facility maintenance instructor; and John Stiff, carpentry instructor, spruced up the golf course and facilities by cleaning the grass from course sprinkler heads, cleaning limbs, twigs and debris from the golf course, planting flowers and painting benches, poles and bathrooms.