Health Careers Camp to give students insight for career planning
A physical therapist. A Registered Nurse. A Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician. Perhaps a Radiography or Laboratory Technologist?
The decision on a career can be a difficult one, but a camp coming this summer at Reid Hospital aims to make it easier. Health Careers Camp 2008 is being offered to area students June 16-20 or June 23-27 at Reid. The camp, sponsored by Reid, Indiana University East and Ivy Tech, will provide students with first-hand experience in the varied fields that make up health care.
Carrie Kolentus, director of Human Resources at Reid, said the camps offer a chance for area students to investigate possible careers in health care. “The health care field offers numerous other opportunities, beyond nursing, for students who might have different interests.”
Kolentus said the camp is open to students who have completed their freshman year of high school. Other requirements include a minimum 2.0 GPA, a general interest in health care and parental consent. The camp is free, but students will go through an application and screening selection process.
The camp is divided into two, one-week segments. The session June 16-20 will deal with nursing and June 23-27 focuses on allied health. The camp will be from 8 a.m. to noon each day. Students can apply for one or both weeks, depending on their interests.
The camp is open to any high school students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year in the fall of 2008 or who graduate Spring 2008. Participants will be selected through an application process to fill a limited number of spaces in the camp, which is divided into two major areas – Nursing (June 16 – 20) and Allied Health (June 23 – 27). Students can apply for one or both weeks.
Students and parents are invited to an information session at 7 p.m. Monday, March 10, in Community Rooms A and B at Reid. The application process and other details will be outlined and applications will be available with the details on requirements.
Worldwide Recall Issued on Ford Model T's
All Model Ts ever manufactured and still in existence today are being recalled. The recall is, of course, voluntary and all part of the fun of the 2008 Model T Ford Centennial T Party being held at the Wayne County Fairgrounds and Exposition Center in Richmond, Indiana.
The weeklong event runs from July 21 – 26, 2008, and is being called the “party of the century” for the “car of the century.”
While over 15 million Model T cars were built between 1908 and 1927, it is estimated that only 500,000 have survived. At least 1,500 of those (from as far away as Australia, England and Norway) are expected next July in east central Indiana for the celebration of the Ford Model T’s 100th birthday. This will be the largest gathering of Model Ts since they left the factory.
The Centennial T Party is being hosted by the Model T Ford Club of America and will take participants and visitors back to a time when the Model T was new. Highlights of the event include a Model T car show and judging; a mock “recall inspection” in Gasoline Alley; driving and challenge games; a swap meet; a series of Model T road tours along the Old National Road and to historic towns; a vintage baseball game; special displays of antique camping; a period clothing store and fashion show; a vintage air show with WWI and pre-1930 planes, plus stunt biplanes performing on one of the largest grass strip runways in the country; a visit to the newly opened Model T Ford Museum in nearby Centerville, Indiana, and hand-churned ice cream and a giant birthday cake.
The first production Model T Ford (1909 model year) was assembled at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit on September 27, 1908. At the turn of the century, the vast majority of Americans had never been more than 20 miles away from home. It took Henry Ford’s vision and assembly-line techniques to produce a car that was affordable for everyone. In 1909, the Model T sold for $825. Ford sold over 10,000 Ts in the first year of production—a new record for any automobile model at that time.
By 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with just four months of pay. The Model T made it possible for doctors to get to patients, reduced the back-breaking work of farmers and gave people spare time for leisure—which often meant a trip through the country in their “Tin Lizzie.”
Model Ts were “put to work” in an amazing number of different roles. Centennial T Party attendees can expect to see the rare, the common and the absurd on display at the event. From Model T campers and tent-topped Touring Ts, to ambulances, delivery wagons and even Model T snowmobiles, the city streets and quiet, backcountry roads will once again be filled with THE “car of the century.”
The Model T Ford Club of America (MTFCA) was organized in 1965 and is the largest Model T club in the world with over one hundred chapters in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia and Europe. A 501(c)(3) educational organization, the MTFCA was formed for the purpose of bringing together people who are interested in the Model T Ford and educating the public on its history, evolution and historic place in the American scene.
Contact Information:
The Model T Ford Club of America
P.O. Box 126
Centerville, IN 47330-0126
Tel: 765-855-5248
Fax: 765-855-3428
http://www.mtfca.com
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The Earlham College Artist and Lecture Series
and the Civic Hall Associates invites you to a multi media – multi cultural experience featuring performances by
Adult Education Works in Wayne County!
Richmond Community Schools’ Adult Education program has successfully completed education and training projects for entities as diverse as Wayne County Highway Department, Indiana University East, Lowe’s of Richmond, Autocar, TBK America, and Primex Plastics. The training is customized based on employer/employee needs, determined in part through assessment tools that are included as part of the project. Training usually includes some Workplace Essential Skills—such as applied math and writing/communication—and we are also excited to be able to offer Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3) training. Our partnership with Morrison-Reeves Library’s Outreach Services program helps provide laptop computers and digital literacy instruction to local companies.
Our training is usually done on-site at the workplace at times convenient to the employer and the workforce. Most employers provide partial-paid-training time for their employees, a training room, and computers, if available. We provide the curriculum, the licensed instructors, assessments, materials, software, etc. It’s never been easier to bring your employees into the 21st Century Workforce! Please contact Christie Joy at christiej@rcs.k12.in.us or 765-973-3486 to schedule a consultation or to find out more.
February 14, 2008 -Main Street Richmond Wayne County (MSRWC) and Richmond Urban Enterprise Association (RUEA) jointly announced a change in administration for the RUEA program. MSRWC in January notified the RUEA with their intent to terminate their contract to provide administrative services to the RUEA effective March 1, 2008. “In reviewing our mission and updated strategic plan, MSRWC made a business decision that will provide us with an opportunity to utilize our resources at a higher level in areas that we have had to place on hold due to time constraints. We have enjoyed our good working relationship with the RUEA over the past five years and will continue to work closely and collaborate with them thru their 2013 program designation,” stated Renee Oldham,
Executive Director.
Scott Zimmerman, President of the Richmond Urban Enterprise Association stated that, “The RUEA as a board has been working on developing a strategic plan for the remaining designation of the RUEA program. We will be taking the next several months to go thru a visioning process that will afford us the opportunity to look at how to best serve the needs of the residents and businesses of the zone with the limited amount of resources that we have.” We have appreciated and enjoyed our working relationship with Main Street over the past five years and have been proud of what we were able to accomplish together. Some of those accomplishments include:
Feb. 15, 2008 - EDC’S ADVERTISING TARGETS DEVELOPERS, BUSINESS DECISION-MAKERS
Wayne County’s “Great People. Perfect Place.” marketing theme is hitting commercial real estate developers and business travelers this year.
A full-page, full-color advertisement for Wayne County began running in January in The Leader, a magazine for members of CoreNET Global. A similar one-third page ad for the county started its run in February in Hemispheres, the seatback magazine for United Airlines.
The ads feature a vibrant photo of a small town parade with the tag line “Hard Work. Easy Living.” Wayne County’s family-friendly neighborhoods, four colleges or universities, theaters and symphony orchestra, location on Interstate 70 and its proximity to three airports and Class I rail service are touted.
CoreNET Global, the Corporate Real Estate Executives Network, is the largest organization of commercial real estate developers, said EDC President and CEO Jim Dinkle. United Airlines carries more international and national business leaders than any other airline.
“These are people who are involved in making location decisions every day for businesses,” Dinkle said. “It is important for Wayne County to become part of their thinking.”
In the first two weeks after the advertising campaign started, hits on the EDC Web site more than doubled. From Jan. 4 to Feb. 3, nearly 73 percent of visits to the EDC Web site came from the United States, according to Google Analytics. There were also hits from Ireland, Canada, India, The Netherlands, China, Hungary, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Nigeria, Mexico, Germany, Spain and Lebanon.
“We are pleased with this response,” Dinkle said. “In business attraction, it’s important to cast the net as widely as possible. We believe this ad is getting into hands of people who may have never heard of Richmond and Wayne County before.”
More than one-third of visits to the EDC Web site are from direct traffic – people who go straight to the Web address ( www.edcwc.com) – followed closely by referrals and links from other Web sites or search engines.
A series of “Wayne County Indiana: Great People. Perfect Place.” ads will run throughout 2008. The ads are being designed by BrandAcceleration, a marketing firm.
SEE THE AD FOR YOURSELF
For a look at a motion- enhanced version of the EDC ad in The Leader magazine, go to this Web page and turn to Page 11 by clicking on the bottom right-hand corner of the magazine image:
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/corenet/theleader0108/index.php
For more information, contact: Jim Dinkle, President and CEO, Economic Development Corp. of Wayne County IN, (765) 983-4769