JOB CORPS Students of the Loring Job Corps Center scrubbed the winter film off the area automobiles to raise funds to aid the Japan disaster relief efforts. Since that dreadful day of the Japan Disaster my auto students have been watching the news daily on the events that have...
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Northlands Job Corps Students Volunteering in Vergennes
(L-R) Kayla Brown; Arianna Talbert; Paige Clark; with Eileen Corcoran at the Opera House. The Vergennes Opera House is the centerpiece of cultural and arts activities in the city of Vergennes, Vermont. As such, it...
Global Youth Service Day brings Job Corps youth to MapleCreek
by John Elmore 20. April 2011 11:00 http://www.lssm.org/blog/post/2011/04/20/Global-Youth-Service-Day-brings-Job-Corps-youth-to-MapleCreek.aspx On Friday, April 15, 2011, a group of youth from the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center in Grand Rapids participated in Global...
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP GROUP VISITS PINE RIDGE
(Left) CJ McCabe, Lynn Mathis, John Morford, Karen Hald, Lori Frederick, Annie Loutzenhiser, Amy Halversen, Vanessa Quevedos, Todd Rickenbach, Justin Hagg, Deb Cottier, and Keesha Petties DELTA ( Dawes-county Entrepreneur and Leadership Training Academy)...
Learning the Ropes about Wheels
“This will be real handy when I buy my first Rolls Royce!”
Quality Time With Kindergarten Students
When Collbran Lion's Club called Susan Nichols, Principal, Grand Mesa High School, Collbran Job Corps, to ask if Job Corps students could assist at the local elementary school, her response was, "Yes!" The club purchases personalized books for the kindergarten class...
Loring Job Corps meets with community leaders to analyze the local economic impact of the Loring center with the use of a nationally accepted economic model.
On February 21, 2011 the City Manager of Caribou and our Loring's BCL met on Center to address the recent News Releases of proposals of H.R. 1, which, if enacted could result in the closing of Loring and Penobscot Job Corps campuses in Maine. It was suggested by the...
Ground Hog Shadow Days at Loring Job Corps Center engaged over 100 students.
Over 100 students had the opportunity from Loring Job Corps Center to take part in the Annual Ground Hog Shadow program with 17 businesses involved from our local community. This program encourages real life experiences for our students to take a day in their...
Loring Job Corps Student Hired locally by Tri-Community Landfill after WBL internship.
Trinity Harvey was able to participate in a Work Based Learning internship at Tri-Community Landfill in Fort Fairfield, Maine and was successfully hired after her internship! This position involved primary responsibility for driving recycling trucks to pick up...
Groundhog Job Shadow Day
Over 350 students from the Clearfield Job Corps Center had the opportunity to visit with several local businesses during National Groundhog Job Shadow Week this year. Eight Health Occupations students rode along with three local fire and ambulance crews on emergency...
Alaska Job Corps Carpentry Students come through in an Alaskan Emergency
Alaska Job Corps Carpentry students are starting emergency dog shelter construction, due to a huge influx of malnourished dogs at the Mat Su Animal Control Shelter. On Tuesday over 150 dogs were rescued from abhorrent conditions in Willow, Alaska. Early Wednesday...
Cool School of the Week
On January 12, Clearfield Job Corps was featured in a live broadcast on Fox 13’s Good Day Utah as Cool School of the Week. Segments included Welding students showing Big Buddha how to use the plasma cutter and welding simulator, UAW students demonstrating the many...
Penobscot Job Corps develops partnership with St. Joseph’s Hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital has been “just what the doctor ordered for two Penobscot Job Corps students learning firsthand on the job. As part of a Work Based Learning partnership with the Bangor medical facility, Jason Gabriel and Briant Hunt are working full time...
Oconaluftee JCCCC Partners With Local Rotary
Imagine replacing a weekly meeting by donning boots, vests, gloves and heading into the weeds. That’s exactly what six Cherokee Rotary members did in a major effort to improve and restore their community in September. To kick-off their inaugural Adpot-a-Highway litter...
Westover Job Corps Center’s Outreach Committee students lend a Helping Hand!
In partnership with the Chicopee Rotary, students of the Westover Job Corps Center volunteered to deliver Thanksgiving meals to "needy" citizens of the Chicopee, Ma. region. A total of 150 families received this gift as our students saw first hand how important it is...
Perkins Students and Staff Take Part in 2010 Make A Difference Day
A total of 175 Perkins students and 12 staff members volunteered for numerous community service projects throughout a four-county area as part of this year’s Annual Make A Difference Day. The projects took place during the week of Oct. 23. The activities included...
Perkins Students Assist in Pike County Flood Relief Efforts
Over 70 Carl D. Perkins Job Corps male and female students have been working for over two month in Pikeville, Kentucky to assist people displaced by the July 17 flash flood in Pike County areas. All of the construction Career Technical Training Programs at the center...
Sierra Nevada JCC & Kiwanis Club Hold Community Halloween Carnival
Students at Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center participated in the center's 12th annual Halloween Carnival for Make a Difference Day on October 23. The free event, held at O'Brien Middle School in partnership with the Downtown Sparks Kiwanis Club, featured carnival...
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