Articles with the Tag: Kicking Horse Job Corps
RONAN – Nestled against the foot of the Mission Mountains is an incubator, where for almost a quarter century Donna Mitchell has watched young people transition from childhood into the adult world. “You get great students who come in and they change right before your eyes,” Mitchel...
RONAN — Join Kicking Horse Job Corps, 33091 Mollman Pass Trail, as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of Job Corps on Wednesday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. to Jennifer Finley at (406) 644-2217 or Finley.Jennifer@jobcorps.org.
The drumbeats pounded loudly, reverberated across the gymnasium and shook themselves into the chests of the hundreds of spectators who watched brothers Luke and Stan Whiteman of Calgary, Alberta twist and twirl so traditional regalia formed blurs of orange and pink. The drums beat faster and faster, at the u...
RONAN – As Joseph Martinez rested in a hospital bed recovering from alcohol poisoning, he thought there had to be something better he could do with his life. “It scared the h--- out of me,” he said about coming close to death. He decided he’d had enough near death experien...
RONAN – It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in downtown Ronan, and some credit for that goes to the town’s youth. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Kicking Horse Job Corps students spent the day out in the cold, climbing ladders and twisting Christmas lights around posts and t...
RONAN — It was a chance meeting that brought Kicking Horse Job Corps nursing student Elsa Fissehaye and Hamilton resident Karla West together on an flight to Denver this spring. It was no coincidence that the two kind-hearted individuals stayed in contact after the flight, and worked together with othe...
RONAN —After working a minimum wage job, Mona Ray realized she needed more training and a better job to support her daughter. Ray now is studying to be a dental assistant. She and her classmates Sharmyne LaForge and Kourtnie Gopher are off-campus students at Kicking Horse Job Corps and attend dental...
