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Show Se AMBITSS yo NEED A JOB? Drop into your South County I’m Goin’ Get Me A Job Neighborhood CAP Center at 97 North Holden in Midvale. Qualified specialists from the Utah State Employment Office are on hand to give you advice, counseling and referrals to job openings. The service is offered without charge and if you need training to gain marketable skills, this office can arrange for you to begin one of the many programs available. by Ann Tolley Utah State Employment Office FREE JOB TRAINING If you could be trained for any -g@ceupation you wanted, what * would you choose? A program for people on welfare has been set up “which gives you this opportunity and choice. Through the “WIN” program, you can have all expenses paid for you to go to school and learn a trade, for up to two years. - Your books, tools, and tuition fees are paid on by this program, and you. still receive your regular welfare checks. You are given a free choice in what kind of training you -. take, as long as you can find a job and support yourself once you finish the training. Let me give you an idea of what this two years of free training can mean to you. It takes two years of Mr. Quintin Palmer offers counseling by appointment. Call or visit to arrangea free session. Mr. Kenneth find a job. Crockett can help you lake ne trainees trade school to become an auto mechanic or auto body repairman. These guys are making $650. to $700 a month—and some make up to $1,000 a month. A woman can take a nursing course and become a licensed practical nurse, or she can learn typing and shorthand and make $400 a month or more as a secretary. If you’d like to know. more... about this program; ask,. your,» caseworker. He or she can give you the information and help you get started with the WIN program. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to get a job that pays enough to live on? How can you lose with a program like this? ACCENT EMPLOYMENT —~— WITH Mr. Elizardo V. Romero is in charge of training and special education programs with the Employment Office at the South County CAP Center. SERVICE SERVICE ACCENTUATED! Free Job Counseling. No charge to register. Special fee rate for low-income and @ minority applicants. i\Many jobs available—skilled and 975 E. 33rd South 486-9371 1 unskilled—men and women. Hope we answered you in column below. We will welcome a call from you. Your help is needed. It is exciting to be part of what is happening in the community today. WHOSE WHAT IS: POND I. Community Action Program? II. Community? il. Who Are You? by Lucy Black I. Community Action Program came into existence when our Federal government became aware LETTERS TO LUCY that agencies being payed by State and Federal monies were not or could. not reach the people in the Dear Lucy: area they were put into to serve. The government needed to know why the population of poverty people was increasing in a country that had the highest income level in advice on what kinds of food to. the world. It was felt because of buy. I have three children. Thank our high income and world leadership we should not have you. increasing poverty in this country. Mrs. Rose Filmore Community Action Program Where can [ sign up for budget classes? My husband thinks I need help — especially with grocery buying. I like the recipes but need hired We will be setting classes as soon as we can find the man we want to conduct them. Send your name to Lucy and we will notify you when we start the classes. _ Dear Lucy: people to 1—Training programs have been set up for the underemployed 2—Schooling for family heads on What can a middle-class mother of three do to help with the Welfare Program? We are not and_ never have been welfare recipients, but we would like to help. What can we do? What is needed to help families who cannot afford proper food, clothing and housing? I want to take out my “‘insurance’ * but need to know the‘ “premiums. ’ > Thank you. professional administer the program, and people in poverty to reach other poverty and low income people to see what was needed by them to get them off the slide that was taking them into deeper poverty. The following has been completed in some areas by the Community Action Program: up budget welfare 3—Family planning clinics have been established 4—Headstart programs were set up and are currently being operated by the school districts S—Job Corps for school drop outs — 6—Well baby clinics : ¢~—Employment and counseling services have been made available in outreach centers Mrs. Gunderson ote aeration eit gy ee eC eB NS mete whncggre pomyertere 8—Rehabilitation programs are team has helped obtain a health clinic in the area. Services include being established for law breakers family planning, well baby, and 9—Housing programs are being developed for decent, adequate immunization. Is in the process of | homes for low income families __ obtaining mental health services in 10—Increased and upgraded. _ the area and is soon to be opening a medical care for the ill drug crises center. 11—Welfare Rights Organization 4—Has been establishing the 12—Help people live and realize ground work for a buying co-op in There are glaring deficiencies in that a community is all the people the coverage of news in most of order for low income people to buy living in the area and that it takes — -¢lothing, shoes, etc. for a lower today’s newspapers. Cultural news, all of them to solve the. price through buying in large particularly about current books, is conumuneys s problems.. poorly handled and most olen quantities. absent from the pages of our o—Have set up tutoring programs favorite tabloid. Most readers rarely 13—Organize the ‘iain to. . and adult education classes — read new books and could utilize 6—Working on obtaining low do something about its problems. brief reviews and summaries to including all levels of income and ‘income housing for families in the keep informed. A _ well written education and residential— area review will often entice the actual ?—Working with the schools to ‘population together to work on — reading of the book, thus satisfying problems effecting them all. get them to hold the schools open the publisher’s desire. Too much of “In the evenings Organize neighborhood councils what is considered culture and 8—Establish programs in the from the residents of the areas, entertainment news is directly tied center such as boy scouts, ceramics, then help them to solve the needs to advertising. summer camp, rifle training, of the community. Even the best papers in the Your community is South Soe, senior citizens, etc. The Neighborhood Council is country need to dig more into local County. Your boundaries are from situations, particularly government 4500 South to the Point of the.. now working toward: and the environment. A _ good -J—Day Care Centers Mountain on the South, from the example of apathy on the part. of 2—Housing (through carabienins mountains on the East to the news reporters came out at arecent housing authority in the area)| mountains on the West. 51,000 mass meeting when the audience _3—Mental Health Facilities people live in incorporated towns. was told to “lean on the news 4—Community Schools Your South County has 183,000 media” for coverage of minority O—Transportation people. This means one staff and community issues. It would be 6—Recreation in each area. This member to approximately every far better to appoint or hire is being established by the use of 14,000 residents. We are willing to someone to cover situations dealing task force teams. A task force team do our job and help the with community problems and for each community. community. Will you, the residents preferably the reporter would be a 7—Senior Citizens Needs of South County please take your minority. His material should not Community residents may help responsibility and join forces with be edited beyond recognition in the us so that we may have total: in these projects by contacting the “best interests’’ of the readers. Resident Council Members from community involvement for the Distorted coverage, too much their area. They are: Murray—Dave solutions to the problems that concern with building small empires Johnson, 255-8735; Sandy—Nick exist. 571-0904; Sandy—R.H. and making vast amounts of Babilis, We belong to a small corner of money, too much political interest the world. It is up to all of us te Bee». *‘Charlie” Brown, 692 E. 1075 and too little sincere involvement in Sandy; West that it is a healthy place to live. . the community are faults of. the Jordan—DeMerce Trujillo, Your neighborhood Council and 255-4935; Midvale—Community average newspaper. Reforms should the people from your community and must come from newspaper Action Center, 255-3516. who have already taken your managements, not from the responsibility for the last two years outside. So-called “underground” have accomplished for you, the newspapers will continue to cover community, the following: news and face issues in a manner 1_Worked on police problems which will satisfy the hunger of 2—Established a recreation | many Americans for “real” news center Give a helping hand. reporting and revelent information. 3—Through its medical task force The Under- Ground Pe South, meer enmme dst ror, - ~ a 6 S —. , nilllateint a News |