December 31st, 2012
You’d never know, walking into Chicopee City Hall, that you’re walking into the “new” building, that just beyond the corridor is a huge town hall meeting space with carved wood, abundant stained glass and twin balconies looking down on a gorgeous wood floor. The “auditorium” is part of the original city hall. Westover Job Corps [...]
December 31st, 2012
Westover has been traveling to Worcester, MA to join other Job Corps centers and construction crews on the Stone Soup Community Center. The WJCC Carpentry trade has worked on the exterior of the building, especially on the vintage porch and trim. The project is as heartening as hot soup on a wintry day. The center [...]
December 31st, 2012
It all started with a brief conversation during a class visit at Westover Job Corps in Chicopee, Massachusetts sometime during the middle of the winter in early 2012. Bob Fay, Pharmacy Tech class teacher at WJC, and Rick Laferriere, Manager of Workforce Initiatives for CVS Caremark, tossed around the idea of building a mock pharmacy [...]
October 1st, 2012
Westover Job Corps can barely keep up with the exciting job growth in the Connecticut River Valley. Job growth in the area is significant in three industries: casinos (two will be built in the region) commuter rail (8,000 new jobs expected( class one freight As a result, Westover is actively participating in meetings, on committees [...]
October 1st, 2012
UHAUL ;Yankeee Candle;Capuano Health Care;Centrus Health Care; Bernies Dinning Depot;Cracker Barrel;Griffin Electric;Gingras Plumbing and Heating;K2 Consultants;Horizons Resturant; and St Anne;s Hospital are among the new employers in the Northeast US who have recently hired graduates of Westover in Chicopee, MA.
October 1st, 2012
Westover Pharmacy Tech is now home to a mock CVS Caremark Pharmacy. A ribbon cutting was done in September. Although CVS Caremark hires a large % of the graduates of this trade, the Career Management Team has continued to forge relationships by placing graduates with other employers. These include pharmacy placements at Price Chopper, WalMart, [...]
July 5th, 2012
Facilities Maintenance students have taken part in building a new home in Granby,MA volunteering for Homes for our Troops. Marine Sergeant Joshua Bouchard was on his second deployment when he lost his left leg and broke his back after his vehicle drove over a pressure plated IED in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on July 8th, 2009. [...]
July 5th, 2012
Next Step Living is a residential energy efficiency company, providing home energy diagnostics and improvements to the greater New England area. As a socially-conscious, environmentally focused, results-driven organization they are dedicated to helping our customers lower their energy bills, increase the comfort of their homes, and reduce their carbon footprint. Through collaborative efforts with major [...]
June 15, Heritage Park, Holyoke: The Culinary Arts students from Westover Job Corps served 750 hot dogs to job seekers and employers at the Career Point Hot Dogs for Hot Jobs event. The students also prepared pistachio brittle for raffle prizes. Shown are Mark Doward, Brianna Dailey, Dakota Sneed, Zebron Scott, Amaury Baez and Christopher [...]
March 30th, 2012
As part of Women’s Month, and for its recruitment effort to attract more young women, Westover hosted an all day Women’s Health and Career Fair on March 10. Young women and their mothers, sisters and friends attended the fair which included demonstrations on gardening, auto care, health screenings and info sessions about Job Corps along [...]