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Show t ikigCjL sly IIS DEDICATION CEREMONY National, regional and local Job Corp supporters gathered Friday in South Weber for the dedication of a new $400,000 kitchen-dining facility (shown upper left) at the Weber Basin Job Corp Center. By MARK D. MICKELSEN SOUTH WEBER A representative rep-resentative of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Friday praised members of the Weber Basin Job Corp for helping to keep the national Job Corp system alive, despite threatened budget cuts by the Reagan Administration. "THE JOB Corp has survived sur-vived the first set of cuts," said Joe Hipps, director of youth programs for the Bureau of Reclamation. Re-clamation. Washington D.C. "But that doesn't mean we're out of trouble in the Job Corp program." HE SAID the only way the corp can survive is if the students stu-dents continue to benefit from the training that is available. Mr. Hipps was one of several sever-al local, regional and national dignitaries who gathered Friday Fri-day for dedication ceremonies of the Weber Basin Job Corp's new kitchen and dining facility. THE TWO-LEVEL, 5500 square foot building took corp members two years and four months to complete at a cost of $400,000, according to Clayton Hufteling, the center's cen-ter's administrative officer. He said the new facility is practically maintenance free and contains $288,000 worth of stainless steel kitchen utensils and equipment. "IT'S BEEN A long, hard job to get it (facility) completed," com-pleted," Center Director Ted Larsen told a gathering of job corp supporters at the dedication dedica-tion ceremony. "We're really pleased with it." Calling the new facility "the finest dining hall in the Job Corp," Mr. Hipps promised corpmen and residents that Utah Senators Jake Gam and Orrin Hatch are "very supportive" suppor-tive" of the U.S. Job Corp program. "THEY BELIEVE in this program because they know what this program is doing for the youth of this country." "Let's keep up the fight," he admonished students, "and work together." BEN MURDOCH, the Deputy De-puty Director of the Interior, representing the Job Corp, said the corp's budget has been accepted by the Reagan Administration Admi-nistration "as is," and said no further cuts are expected in the program this year. Murdock, who started in the Job Corp in the mid-1960's, said his visit to Weber Basin "is kind of like coming home again." He praised the "young people" of the corp who "make the program." "THIS IS THE grass roots," he said. "This is where it starts and takes place." Garland Dennett, director of constituent services for Sen. Orrin Hatch, said the people of the U.S. had "written off' the Job Corp system as another one of President Reagan's cutbacks. cut-backs. LIKE MR. Hipps, Dennett said the fight was won because of the dedication of the corp's "young people." "If this program has worked for you," he told students in the audience, "then remember that the eyes of this country remain on the Job Corp program." MELVIN HEINZE, the cen ter's chief cook and culinary training instructor, said "it's a real treat" to work in the new kitchen-dining facility. "I'm going to do all in my power to keep it as great as it is todav." he said. STUDENTS AT the Weber center completed most of the construction on the facility, according to Mr. Hufteling. He said only air conditioning, plumbing, heating and wiring work was contracted out. He added that because the new building is well-constructed well-constructed and equally well-insulated, well-insulated, utility costs at the facility should decrease. CURRENTLY, THE center is carrying 30 students in its cooking program. "We don't ever turn a student down," Hufteling said, despite the fact that Job Corp rules traditionally traditional-ly limit the cooking program to 20 students. |