| Summer jobs available More than 1,300 summer
jobs will be provided for young men and women ages 14-24 this summer as
part of the “Summer Coin Crew” youth employment opportunity program. It
is being administered by the Mississippi Partnership Local Workforce
Area through Three Rivers Planning and Development District in Pontotoc
and in cooperation with Northeast Planning and Development District in
Booneville, North Central Planning and Development District in Winona,
and the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District in Starkville. The
program, which is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
kicked off May 1 in 27 North Mississippi counties with the initiation
of the application process. Applications will be available at each
chancery clerk’s office, city halls and the local WIN Job Centers.
Applications are also available on-line at www.trpdd.com. These
applications must be completed and returned with the necessary
documentation on or before May 15 to the chancery clerk’s office, city
hall or the local WIN Job Centers. County coordinators will collect the
applications at each site and submit them for certification. Qualified
applicants will be notified of their acceptance into the program and
assigned a date and location to receive orientation. Upon completion of
the orientation process they will then be assigned a worksite and begin
work on June 15. “We expect the program to have a
duration of approximately six to eight weeks with some older youth
possibly continuing in the program into the fall,” said Three Rivers
representative Bill Renick. For further
information you may contact the WIA staff at Three Rivers Planning and
Development District in Pontotoc at 662-489-2415. This
program is offered for youths in the following counties – Alcorn,
Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, DeSoto, Grenada,
Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery,
Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo,
Union, Webster, Winston and Yalobusha.
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