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Young adults train for green jobs

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 08/05/09

Local Job Corps graduates might be green when it comes to work experience, but now they have new "green" skills to set them apart as they enter the job market.

Elisha Sauers — The Capital Robert Owens, 23, Michael Wooley, 23, and Anna Smallwood, 21, are students in the new “green jobs” training program at the Woodland Job Corps Center. Over the past two weeks, they and other students helped install this solar-panel system in their school’s parking lot.
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Woodland Job Corps Center, located on the edge of Anne Arundel County in Laurel, is the first Job Corps school nationwide to officially offer solar-panel installation training, the local Job Corps staff said.

About 75 students from low-income backgrounds throughout the region - all of whom are currently unemployed - will be in the first class of participants this year, officials said.

Job Corps is a free education and technical program for disadvantaged...

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