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Forest Service Job Corps Graduates get Trip of a Lifetime in Kuwait
This April, the twins (Charmaine (R), Shaneka (l) will go to Kuwait for a long-term job with a six-figure salary. Photo courtesy Katie Dunn/The Coalfield Progress. Little did Chamain and Shaneka Hicks...
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South Dakota’s Top Chef is Job Corps Educator Too
Boxelder Job Corps certified culinary essentials educator, Dave Levesque, center, works with culinary arts students, Trevor Robertus, left, Mathew McGirr and Duanna Martin, right, as they create cherry...
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North Carolina Rivercane Studies get a boost from Oconaluftee Job Corps
In the early morning light, 15 students look for the first time at a traditional Cherokee rivercane basket and marvel at the colors and detail. Western Carolina University’s Adam Griffith of the...
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North Carolina Forest Service Job Corps Students Improve Historic Site
North Carolina Forest Service Job Corps students improve historic site. Forest Service Job Corps student Jay Williams digs out a new footer for the next step in a stairway for increased angler access...
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Job Corps Students Graduate to Fight Fires Across the Nation
Thomas Barnett, a March 2013 graduate of the Centennial Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, works on building slash piles to help thin unwanted forest fuels on the Boise National Forest in 2012....
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Dirt, Fire and Road: My First Season as a Wildland Firefighter
Michaela Hall, a Job Corps alumna, challenged herself to learn firefighting skills as part of the Davidson River Initial Attack Crew, stationed at Schenck Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center on the...
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USDA Marks 50th Anniversary of the Job Corps
Daniel Stevenson, carpentry student of the Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center shows Tom Tidwell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service a map he created of the 28 Job Corps Centers in the United States at the 50th...
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Job Corps Students, Alumnae ‘Pay it Forward,’ Helping Each Other Learn...
Shray Jackson, an administrative support specialist in the Forest Service Washington Office, is a graduate of the Potomac Job Corps Center in the District of Columbia. She recently shared her advice on...
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Job Corp Youth Saving America’s Garden Heritage
Boxelder instructors Jerry Hood and Rae Rowell, along with student Seth Brand-Tindale admire the flowers and vegetables in the Center’s greenhouse during the 2015 harvest celebration. Photo courtesy of...
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Centennial Job Corps Students Support Firefighting Preparedness through Camp...
Centennial Job Corps camp crew cleaning hose returned from the fire line. Forest Service photo In the back parking lot of the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), seven workers wear neon green...
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