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Show Twenty-five YACC workers busy on Moab District projects The Young Adult Conservation Con-servation Corps is well under way in the Moab Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment District. According to the District Manager, Gene Day, thirty-five en-rollees en-rollees plus part of the staff are now on board. Twenty-five enrollees are working in Moab. Nine of these young adults are assigned to the U.S. Park Service. All thirty-five youths are from the local communities. The Corps members are currently living at home and reporting to the work sites as they are established. establish-ed. Some members will be doing office type work, while others will be working work-ing in maintenance shops, patrolling, cleaning picnic areas, constructing new areas of recreation, constructing con-structing safety devices such as fences and railings, rail-ings, and making im- provements on existing facilities. The YACC Administrative Administra-tive Officer in Moab is Clyde Perkins, a former U.S. Army Reserve Recruiter. A native of Indiana, Clyde left at age seventeen to join the Army. He served in Korea, Japan and many posts in the U.S. He was discharged from the Army in 1963 and went to work for the Civil Service at Tooele Army Depot in Utah and later transferred to the Army Reserve Technician's Program at Fort Douglas, Utah. From there he was transferred to California, and for the past five years was an Army Reserve Recruiter in the San Francisco Bay area. Clyde's duties with the Young Conservation Conserva-tion Corps (YACC) as an Administrative Officer will be to service a camp of fifty to one hundred enrollees in planning, organizing or-ganizing and administering administer-ing all business management manage-ment functions to include budget and financial control, con-trol, procurement and property pro-perty management and personnel management. At the present time, Clyde also administers the YACC enrollees in Richfield Rich-field and Salt Lake. Clyde's wife and three daughters will be joining him as soon as the school year ends. Kenzsi Alexander, Betty Stevens, Sherri Bennett and Tammy Hunt were among the first in Moab to enroll in the YACC program. Kenzsi Alexander, born in Monticello, Utah, moved to Moab, Utah in 1971. She attended school in Moab and graduated from Grand County High School. While in school, she was involved in girls track, drill team and pep club. Betty Stephens is working work-ing at the Grand Resource Area Headquarters of the Moab District. Betty and her husband have been living in Moab for the past two and one half years. Betty graduated from Nucla High School, Nucla, Colorado. Her duties at the Grand RA are of a clerical nature. , Sherri Bennett, who works at the Moab District Office, was born in Monti-cello, Monti-cello, Utah. She attended and graduated from Grand County High School. Her jobs includes typing, filing, xeroxing and miscellaneous duties. Tammy Hunt, a native of Monticello, Utah, attended at-tended and graduated frm Grand County High School. Tammy participated partici-pated for three years in the drill team and pep club activities while attending at-tending school. Tammy is working with . the Moab District Office, Division of Administration. Her duties have included such things as filing of daily correspondence, posting vacancy announcements, xeroxing, typing, etc. |