Centreville Labor Resource Center 2nd Anniversary Open House
The Labor Resource Center will host our 2nd Anniversary Open House on Saturday, December 7, 1-3 pm.
There will be light refreshments and opportunity to talk to Center staff, volunteers, and participants about our work. At 2 pm, there will be special awards for key volunteer-supporters during the past year. Community leaders will be present for special presentations.
We hope that you will join us to see new projects at the Center, and to see first-hand how lives being changed. Please bring other friends to learn more about the service opportunities that the Center provides. During the winter, when jobs for day laborers are scarce, the Center’s skills-training and community-building are more important than ever!
There will be light refreshments and opportunity to talk to Center staff, volunteers, and participants about our work. At 2 pm, there will be special awards for key volunteer-supporters during the past year. Community leaders will be present for special presentations.
We hope that you will join us to see new projects at the Center, and to see first-hand how lives being changed. Please bring other friends to learn more about the service opportunities that the Center provides. During the winter, when jobs for day laborers are scarce, the Center’s skills-training and community-building are more important than ever!
Centreville Labor Resource Center Starts "Green Box Project"
The CLRC is currently developing a job creation project "The CLRC Green Box Project." The CLRC, with the leadership of intern Victoria Jameson, has held multiple day and evening trainings for the CLRC Green Box Project and has trained 13 workers so far to participate in the program.
The “Green” boxes are raised garden beds, which are typically filled with soil and used for growing flowers and/or vegetables. Once workers are trained, they will be able to make and install the boxes and be paid for their labor, thus creating more jobs at the CLRC. The boxes are not technically green, they are “green” in the sense that they are food-safe and environmentally friendly. The CLRC uses untreated cedar boards, which are resistant to water and rot and contain no chemicals that can leach out into the environment or into your food! These will be high quality, unique products that benefit our community project. We hope to officially launch the program in late August after holding a workers’ committee meeting to determine pricing and job distribution. |