Gary Job Corps Attends Luncheon With Congressman, Donates Blankets To Alzheimer Patients And Gives Money To American Cancer Society

Gary Job Corps Center supports the Job Corps program’s mission to teach eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and place them in meaningful jobs or further education…

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 to 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. The Job Corps program is authorized by Title I-C of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (supersedes WIA 1998). For more information about the Job Corps program at a national level, please visit our Official Public Web Site.

Gary Job Corps Center supports the Job Corps program’s mission to teach eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and place them in meaningful jobs or further education.

The Gary Job Corps Center trains over 1400 students on its 800 acre campus in 17 vocations divided between the schools of Construction/Manufacturing and Heath & Support. Additionally, students can receive their driver license, high school diploma, or high school equivalency.

Gary Job Corps Representative attends Lockhart Chamber Luncheon, visits with Congressman Cloud and Texas House Representative Cyrier

Gary Representative Randolph Goodman visited with Congressman  Michael Cloud, 27^th District of Texas, and Texas House Representative John Cyrier, District 17,  during the Lockhart Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting.  Goodman shared with the Congressman the many activities underway at the Gary Center.

Students from the Gary Job Corps Center have assisted with many of the activities in Caldwell County, such as the Chisholm Trail Roundup, Luling Watermelon Thump, fundraising for the Martindale Library, construction of ADA ramp for Martindale City Hall, assist in the construction of the Maxwell Volunteer Fire House, traffic and crowd control for the Martindale 4^th of July Parade, Car Shows, and Chili Cook-offs.

Job Corps Works for Communities, Employers, Tax-Payers, and the Youth of Texas.

Gary Job Corps Students Volunteer at 109^th Annual St. Anthony Catholic Church Festival in Kyle

100’s attended the St. Anthony Church Festival enjoying 25 Game and 18 Food Booths and live music by numerous bands.

The Gary Job Corps students have assisted at St. Anthony’s over the years in traffic and crowd control with Fiesta’s, Festivals, and Jamaica’s in addition to volunteering at St. John’s Catholic Church, San Marcos, Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Martindale, St. James Catholic Church, Seguin, and Santa Cruz Catholic Church, Buda, Texas. 

Pictured are Gary Job Corps Students, Ashley Casanova, Kristal Giron Rodriguez, Adrian Mitty, Myllagra Living, Christina Cashion, Instructor Scott Oshan, Church Volunteer Coordinators, Theresa Perez, and Michelle Lopez.  Also pictured is the band La Distancia, and Booth Row.

Blankets for Alzheimer’s Patients at Hay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Trainees from the  Gary Job Corps arts and crafts department stitched blankets to donate to the Alzheimer’s patients at the Hays Nursing and Rehab Center. 

Over the years Alzheimer’s blankets were also donated to many local nursing homes, additionally, students stitched dresses made from pillowcases for donation to the young girls in many African countries.

Betty Harris, arts and crafts instructor, has been teaching the trainees in stitchery for over the past 10 year; along with the other activities that students do during the off-class hours, e.g: painting, pottery, scrapbooking and string art.

Gary Job Corps donates to American Cancer Society

Gary Job Corps students and staff donated $1,052.12 to the American Cancer Society after a week of Breast Cancer Awareness activities held on the Center. 

The Gary Student Government Association  week of activities bring the awareness of Breast Cancer by collecting funds at the Gary Main Gate from staff members, Balloon walk, student dance, and serving at the dining hall for donations. 

Students and staff have over the years raised funds and participated in fund drives for the Tour de Cure (diabetes), Heart Walk (American Heart Association), Hats off for Hospice, Mamma Jamma Ride (Breast Cancer), victims of the Central Texas Floods and Bastrop Fires, food collections and money for the Hays County Area Food Bank, victims of Hurricane’s Harvey and Irma, Martindale Library, and the san Marcos Animal Shelter.