JOB CORPS Torran Cox is on his way to a strong career in refractory bricklaying, where just as a journeyman he could make $5,000 a week. He couldn’t have built that future without the foundation Whitney M. Young Job Corps helped him lay. Cox is an apprentice bricklayer entering...
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Curlew Job Corps Graduate New Brick Instructor
In 1999, Kevin Connor was a senior at Riverside High School, in north Spokane, playing sports and getting good grades. Until, that is, a bout with mononucleosis caused him to miss too many hours of school. He was told he’d have to repeat his senior year. Shortly...
Life Changes Thanks to Curlew Job Corps
Only attending school through the ninth grade, Salvador had few marketable skills and little work experience, except for helping his family with fruit picking and vegetable harvest. New students to Curlew Job Corps are able to try out eight different vocational...
Spotlight on Curlew Job Corps CCC – Bricklaying
When you drive on to the Curlew Job Corps CCC campus, you will immediately see the works of the Center’s bricklaying crew. The old airbase buildings have been veneered in brick, as well as the two new dormitories, one of those new dormitories was built by Center...