December 20th, 2012
Mykel Lynch wanted to be a truck driver. Even after his training in Material Handling at Finch-Henry Job Corps Center, he was so far behind in academics, he wondered if he could ever get the real job he wanted. Mykel pursued his career by contacting ACE Training School. They referred him to KLLM Trucking where [...]
September 27th, 2012
The Finch-Henry Job Corps Center invites everyone to join in the Run, Walk, Roll Against Bullying on October 20 at Trussell Park. “People ask about the‘Roll,’ said center leadership coordinator Gwendolyn Hayes. “We want people in wheel chairs to feel welcome.” Every day, more than 160,000 children nationwide stay home from school to avoid being [...]
September 27th, 2012
FHJCC Student Government Association President Crystal James (left) presented the FHJCC Community Relations Council with a framed souvenir from her summer internship in the offi ce of Representative Bennie Thompson. Accepting the photo was CRC president, Batesville Mayor Jerry Autrey. Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby has requested that Finch-Henry Job Corps Center (FHJCC) students and [...]
Finch-Henry Job Corps Center student Crystal James of Indianola, center, was welcomed back to the center when she returned from working as a summer intern for Rep. Bennie Thompson in Washington. Thompson had visited FHJCC in the spring and had offered the internship. James was the winning applicant. Staff members and fellow students were on [...]
August 6th, 2012
For the second time in Job Corps’ successful 48-year history of serving America’s out-of-school, out-of-work youth, the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center along with 125 Job Corps campuses across the nation will host the “NationalJob Corps Commencement Day” August 3. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. in the Batesville Civic Center. Although more student [...]
June 27th, 2012
Crystal James, 20, of Indianola, Mississppi is a Finch Henry Job Corps Student. Ms. James has been selected to intern this summer in the office of Congressman Bennie Thompson in Washington, DC. Ms. James was selected out of a group of her peers. She is an active member of the Student Government Association and the Finch [...]
June 27th, 2012
Finch-Henry Job Corps Center student Deante Blanchard, 19, of Tupelo models appropriate business casual attire for next week’s Job Fair at the Batesville Civic Center. Blanchard has completed the center’s office assistant program and plans to enroll at Northwest Community College in the fall. FHJCC is a sponsor of the Job Fair. The Panolian photos [...]
February 28th, 2012
Bennie Thompson visits the Batesville Mississippi center and spoke to the student body concerning Black History and used his own life story as a teaching tool to encourage the student body. Congressman Thompson offered an internship to a student of the center which the center will choose. Pictured Left to Right: Crystal James, SGA reporter, Cordella [...]
January 17th, 2012
Finch-Henry Job Corps Center offi cially celebrated its new status as a tobacco free campus with a ribbon cutting last week. Students, staff members and local offi cials, including (from left) Donna Smith, Ina Bibbs, Gladys Ellis, Quinlan Williams, Sonyama Jackson, Tatanya Towns, Keyocus Coleman, WIN Job Center’s Greg Amos, Sheriff Dennis Darby, Frank Orange, [...]
December 15th, 2011
Representatives of the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center Student Government Association (SGA) and choir took to the road spreading the joy of Christmas, by performing Christmas carols to residents in several local communities. Gentlemen of the Dignity and Mercy Adult Day Care (pictured) enjoyed participating with the choir as they sang Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer. [...]