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4 Carpentry Students Awarded $500.00 Scholarships!
4 Carpentry students at the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center were each awarded $500.00 scholarships this afternoon at the 22nd Annual Forrest A. Pletcher Memorial Awards ceremony held on-center in the Carpentry trade building. The memorial scholarship award, in honor...
Delaware Valley Job Corps students volunteer at local hospital
Catskill Regional Medical Center’s (CRMC) Grover M. Hermann Hospital in Callicoon, NY announced today that it has created a walking trail on its scenic grounds for public use. CRMC partnered with the Delaware Valley Job Corps to create the trail, and offers members of...
Penobscot Job Corps Accepts a Challenge from the US Marines
The US Marine Corps issued a challenge to students at the Penobscot Job Corps Academy this month: go head-to-head on the Combat Fitness Test. The students gladly accepted the challenge and a group of 50 Marines and students spent a very warm Saturday pushing their...
Students Participate in AT&T Job Shadow, Lunch with State Rep.
On Friday, August 20th, Gerald R. Ford Job Corps students participated in a AT&T Job Shadow. Students toured three different AT&T locations in the greater Grand Rapids area, seeing first hand how cell phones are manufactured, marketed, and distributed. ...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Brick Shop Guest Speaker
On Thursday, July 29, 2010 Woodstock’s Brick Masonry shop enjoyed a visit from a seasoned brick mason worker. Mike Byers, CEO/President of Masonry & Tile Contractors Inc. in Pikesville, came to Center to speak to the Brick students about working in the field, how...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Sojourner-Douglass College Recruitment Session
On Friday, July 30, 2010 Sojourner-Douglass College was at Woodstock Job Corps Center to conduct three separate information sessions for students. The college is beginning what may soon become Woodstock’s premier college institution housed on site at the Woodstock...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Mentoring Men for Success
Students for the Mentoring Men for Success Program went to Arundel Community College on June 28, 2010, for a business and dining etiquette class led by Chef Williams and Chef Lamont. Woodstock students learned about how to effectively use eye contact, proper dress...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Fluke, GrayBar and General Electric Visit EST and Electric Shop
On Monday, June 21, 2010 Chris Connell, MD/DE Sales Manager for Fluke Corporation and Kris Lingo, Inside/Outside Sales for GrayBar conducted safety training with Woodstock’s EST and Electric shops. Henkels & McCoy has a long standing relationship with GrayBar and...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Security Trade Works African American Heritage Festival
On Saturday, June 19, 2010 Woodstock Job Corps Center’s Security Trade students provided VIP protection for some of the music industries biggest names. Patti Labelle and Fantasia Burrino headlined the African American Heritage Festival at Baltimore’s M&T Bank...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Women’s Group, “Who’s that Lady?” Visits the Spa
On the evening of Thursday, June 17, 2010 Woodstock’s Women’s Group, “Who’s That Lady?”, led by Applied Reading instructor, Ms. Brooks, enjoyed a relaxing time at AYANA’s Private Spa & Hidden Paradise in Baltimore. The spa helped to enhance their spirit and...
Faces of Job Corps: Kenya N.
Congratulations to Woodstock student Kenya N. for being selected as a 2010 Scholar of the Week. Kenya, an EST student at Woodstock, began training at Job Corps in April 2009. As part of her special honor Kenya will be featured on Fox 45 in April. The award was...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: The Brickman Group Visits Landscaping Shop
On Friday, March 12, 2010 two representatives Whitney Hackett and Joe Ketterer, of The Brickman Group, came to Woodstock to visit the Landscaping shop. The Brickman Group , one of the nation’s largest landscape design and build and horticultural service companies,...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Community Relations Council Meeting
Woodstock held its Community Relations Council meeting on Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Women’s Center. The meeting was well attended by some 17 CRC members. Mrs. Bush, Business Community Liaison Manager, kicked off the meeting talking about...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Visits Baltimore’s Helping Up Mission
On Saturday, February 27, 2010 Woodstock’s CSIO Department took 9 students to Baltimore’s Helping Up Mission, a transitional home for men, to volunteer. Breanna West, Harry Saunders, Michelle Becoat, Myron Pugh, Jamaal Grigsby-Petty, Clarence Alston, Jonathan Coates,...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Chapelgate Presbyterian Church Visit
On Friday, January 15, 2010 Chapelgate Presbyterian Church located in Marriottsville visited Woodstock for the first time. Monica Laird, Director of Women’s Ministry, Anne Marie Reel and Patrick Allen, Youth Pastor, visited with Mrs. Tammi Bush, BCL, Mrs. Nixon,...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: OSHA Training
From Monday, January 11 to Friday, January 15, 2010 Woodstock held one of the largest Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) training classes that Woodstock has ever seen. Each day from 9 a.m. to noon students from the Electric, Landscape, Painting, EST...