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Show :::-:; Ill II iS m. :I ' ,j '", f ;4''",- - ""-,t-, . ... . .. i r ;y :fi!-"'"" , :.3'!:iiv ;::;:!; i:: iiirSsiK'S: ::: s;i f-aaii ;mfM.&-ri5: iS'SHBj is ... pZxmvt?' fZi&!l:XMSM. XSiMmr I -SSplill ..IIIH11I I STUDENT PROGRAM KSSELBERG ll more than a ng of school, my sludents in-'e in-'e Comprehensive "land Training Act experience are 'Sear down. time, some of students and ' be seeking . s Posilions in the 'Program, an :jw:iX) students cmmg from low-can low-can learn a for it at the formation will be '"'ly from school ,:'elors. fk Director Jechart says the k program gives ?e to work at a after school, 'rience to de- ' "! !,'al may lead to better, higher-paying jobs. WORK SITES range from the Clearfield swimming pool to Layton High graphics arts department and find participants partici-pants involved in maintenance, mainte-nance, clerk-filing and printing jobs, for instance. One such student is Melva Huffer, a Layton High junior, who works in Layton' s graphic arts department. She is learning learn-ing a variety of printing skills and while she says the work is new to her before this year, she hopes to obtain a job at a small newspaper in the future. STUDENTS CAN earn credit cre-dit during the school year while receiving minimum wage. They are supervised by someone on the job as well as by a CETA program official who visits periodically, Mrs. Dechart says. "We do provide followups to see if the participants are happy and we work with them Students Walter Stewart, left, from Layton's Central Davis Junior High and Darrell Richards, a North Lay-ton Lay-ton Junior High student who lives on Hill Air Force Base, perform maintenance duties under government work program at Clearfield Pool. to help them get good work experience ex-perience and habits for the future," fu-ture," she says. The winter program terminates April 30 and includes 58 students. A minimum age of 14 is required for the winter program. THE SUMMER program finds participants normally putting in an eight-hour day for three months. Some work at forestry projects while others help operate a city intramural recreation program on weekends, for instance. Openings should be announced shortly with information infor-mation available from school vocational counselors, Mrs. Dechart says. The program helps students reach the level desired by the program that of self job placement. "WE HAVE a lot of kids who are able to find themselves them-selves jobs. They're always looking forabetterjob.Alot of them have been able to go into private inuusuy. mai a mv whole idea. A number of the sites have put some former CETA employees on their payroll." Participants work at government-related sites with 10Q percent funding paid by the" federal program. Transportation Transporta-tion is provided for participants partici-pants in the summer working in the forestry and yard maintenance program. Otherwise, Other-wise, workers must provide their own transportation. CARE IS taken to place participants par-ticipants as close as possible to their work sites but they can choose their own work location, loca-tion, Mrs. Dechart says. "I think everybody we have with participants is happy with the performance of the students." Sometimes strictness is required re-quired to get participants to function in a work-like environment en-vironment but agencies are happy to receive the help, she savs. 1 |