May 20th, 2013
Muhlenberg Job Corps students conducted a community service activity and cleaned a six mile stretch of the Muhlenberg County Rails to Trails. The popular walking trail stretches from Central City to Greenville attracts many local residents throughout the year for walking, biking and roller blading. Cody Perry, Recreation Supervisior at Muhlenberg, took a group of students to the [...]
April 12th, 2013
Muhlenberg Job Corps students received free tax preparation from the Retired Senior Volunteers of Muhlenberg County. This was the sixth consecutive year students have received this service from the Retired Senior Volunteers. Twenty students received tax preparation help and over seven thousand dollars will be refunded to the students. Kenny Brown, Center Director at Muhlenberg [...]
April 11th, 2013
Muhlenberg Job Corps Health Advocates hosted a Blood Drive in conjunction with the American Red Cross. Fifty six pints of blood were donated by students and staff at the Job Corps center. Muhlenberg holds four Blood Drives each year and donates over 200 pints of blood in those drives. There was some question about how [...]
April 1st, 2013
The Muhlenberg Job Corps recreation leaders and military club hosted the Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt for over 250 participants. Plastic eggs filled with candy and a few “prize eggs” were hidden on the Muhlenberg campus for the eager egg hunters. Participants finding the “prize eggs” were treated to very special gifts during a ceremony after [...]
March 19th, 2013
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day the Muhlenberg Job Corps celebrated Wacky Olympics Day. Students and staff wore a jersey of their favorite ball team and participated in “Olympic Style” games played in a “Wacky” way. The Wacky Olympics was kicked off by a staff student dodge ball game which generated a lot of fan [...]
March 5th, 2013
Three former MCDC students are soaring high in the employment world after their Job Corps graduation. Sean Anderson completed the Job Corps program in February 2012 after 15 months at Muhlenberg. He entered the Job Corps program with his GED and completed heavy equipment operators training. He also took some additional construction equipment mechanics classes. Sean [...]
February 13th, 2013
Giving back to the community has been a part of the Job Corps program ever since its inception at the Muhlenberg Job Corps Center in 1974. Giving back to a community, partnered with learning essential job skills is an even better proposition. Henderson County Engineer, Bill Hubiak, recently approached the instructors at Muhlenberg with an idea that [...]
February 5th, 2013
As of January 1, 2013 the Muhlenberg Job Corps Center became a smoke free and tobacco free campus. Center Director, Kenny Brown announced to the students early in 2012 the campus would become smoke free in 2013. Plans were made throughout 2012 to help the students, who smoked, to transition to the smoke free environment. Smoking cessation classes [...]
December 18th, 2012
The Muhlenberg Job Corps conducted a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, December 18th with nine students participating. Graduate Brian Rondon lead the Pledge to the Flag, Indonesia Carter delivered the graduate welcome and Raven Cash was the graduate speaker. Raven shared how Job Corps had turned her life around and would make things better for her and her five [...]
December 6th, 2012
Australian basketball came to the Muhlenberg Job Corps on December 4th. The Kilsyth Cobras, a traveling high school team from Melbourne, Australia defeated the Muhlenberg Bulldogs by a score of 54 to 42. Kilsyth will be playing seven games in Kentucky before doing some site seeing throughout the U.S. Their trip to the United States will last for [...]