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B u s in e s s !
Showers for flowers
RAC
Book signing May 22
at museum in Newark
.. Meet the author of “East o f Newark West of]
jLyons: The Incomplete NemftyLyahs, Trivia Book” :
and have your bqok signed.,
April showers haqe brought May flowers to
Working for BOCES
Freddie’s Plantland on West Union St., across from
Mike Barnard Chevrolet. All o f Freddies annuals are
grown on site in their own greenhouses. In addition
Freddie’s carries a complete line of schrubs, trees and
perennials. There’s an assortment o f interesting garden
statuary.
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Area people have been recently hired by the
Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES:
From Newark - Gary Angus, Adult Instructor, and
Nicole Federico, School Aide
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From Phelps - School Aide Jennifer Kesel
Lisa Maudzio of Red Greek, ESL Instructor
Matthew Johnson and Curbs Morse of Marion.
Adult Instructors
From Lyoiis, school Aide April Sheets and Adult In­
structor Patricia Alena
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A Bush Administration proposal to wipe out thh
Parker Hannifin s Refrigeration and Air Condition National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) would
ing Division, gave a donation of $6750 to the Vi- mean lost job opportunities and lo st family security
aHealth of Wayne Foundation for the benefit of fo r more than 1 0 0 0 low income farm workers,
Newark Wayne Community Hospital
according to a warning from Stuart Mitchell. CEO 61
Pictured are Parker Hannifin employee Rural Opportumbes. Inc. The expert also warned thff
Sandy Campbell, Hospital Foundation Director dismantling the program also would mean area famterd
Malcolm O Malleyt*and Parker. Hannifin employ­ and agribusiness concerns would end up with a less ed­
ucated less healthy and less reliable workforce*'
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ee Tony Vongphouthone.'
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According to Mitchell This job training progranji
This gift brings Parker •Hannifin s totaldonations to
the hospital to more than $104.000 in -the last 12 assists seasonal and migrant farmworkers in finding
years with an addibonal $11,330 in sponsor, partici- good-paying jobs that pay benehts and allow for people
pation in the Foundations benefit golf tournaments for to keep their families together and healthy ”
Rural Opportumhes Inc highlighted the story qf
the hospital.
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Donations to the Foundation are ■used to support Ofelia'Garmona. a migrant farmworker who lives* ouF
side of Dunkirk NY and was aided by the NFJP
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programs and capitol equipment for the hospital.
Ofelia Carmona is a 41 year-old Latina bdm mtojg
Farmworker family. At age six. she began- working iji
the fields with her 13 brothers and sisters Mamed m
age 14. Ofelia dropped out of school and* began nwj
■?:* grating with her husband, and soon children, to1™
fields and orchards of the Northeast. While'pregna^jl
with her fourth child, she and herhusband decidedthejj
Wanted more-fof.their children. ■ '; ;• J
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With die help of Rural Opportunities Inc., OfeljjS
pursued her GED. She attended. GEDi-.cIass1in the
morning and work experience at;. a/Migrant . Heallft
Clinic each afternoon. After completinpher G ^ i, G f»
lia was hired full-time by the Clinic. She returned ts
Community College and, while cqntitiuihg her fuUttirny
>employment, obtained a Nursing Assistant Associate
Degree.
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j. Today> Ofelia is the Director o f a~Migrant Head
Start Center and is working to achieve o Bachelor^
aegree in Early Childhood Education.
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According to Rural Opportunities, Inc, a total of 669
area seasonal arid migrant workers were aided by NFjp
in 2003, That figure includes 34 in this region whd
were moved from the fields into nori-migrant/non-se^
sonal jobs and another 635 who received assistance jfp
stabilize their income and homes outside of the grow?
ing season.
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Nationwide, NFJP support, such as ESL training
work experience and vocational classroom training
helped 6,591 farmworkers transition to full-time, non
seasonal, non-agriculture employment at an averacL
end wage of $8.53.
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A total of 17,798 employed farmworkers mostly hit;
grants received related assistance services (such *
transportation, housing, nutrition, child care and eme
Egncy assistanceltoistabilize theirtfseasonaliagricult
iploymentidn shortythere is no. statistical basis up
ich tossyggest that NFJP is feiUng iorithat it is a :
able candidate Tor dismantling. r
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D iscover w hat
many of your
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already know!
Informa-tional Meeting Locations:
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Finger Lakes Regional EMS is sponsoring an EMT
Appreciation Breakfast for all Wayne, Ontario, Yates
and Seneca county EMTs and their families This jtj
planned at Fairville Fire Dept , 2963 Route'88 North;
• May 23 from 8 to noon. Cdl 331.1935 or 331.4174
if you are planning to attend. Notification appreciated
but not mandatory.
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Proposal will
eliminate jobs
for farmworkers
|ft..f4\ t)ayg fJqnjamiri; of laughing Cat Bbbks. will be at.,,
^Jjie Airgadia Historical Museum on Saturday. May 22..
i' from 1-3 p.m. Books will be available. Admission is
[ free. For information, call the museum at 331.6409.
By John Zomow
EMSweek, May 16-22
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The Department o f Labor wantS'Cpng
to kill fu n din gin 2 0 0 5 fo r the National Far
•worker Jobs Program, even though it is one
P f the outstanding success stories Pf the f e d ­
eral government.
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“No other program nationally or in this area w o u m
carry out the unique mission of the National Farmworlj?i
er Jobs Program in serving the predominantly Hispanfc
migrant workers who hardest 85 percent of the fruifi
and vegetables that Americans consume,” Mitchell sai|§
Fiictiijfhe iN&idftdl*Farmworkers IJob Program | |
the most effective U.S. Department ,of Labor trainiin
program in existence. More than 83 percent of eligibly
farmworkers who bought a job through training qj
placement got one through the NFJP.
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Fact: Nine out of 10 people leaving the National
Farmworkers Job Program, get the help they neeck
According to program data from the U.S. Department
of Labor for fiscal year 2002- 2003, 89 percent of all
NFJP tenninees either found jobs outside of agriculture
or received related assistance services to stabilize their
agricultural employment.
Fact: The National Farmworkers Job Program
overcomes substantial barriers to make trainees the
successes they are. 100 percent of those in the pro­
gram have family incomes below the federal poverty
level. Half (49 percent) of those served by NFJP are
migrant farmworkers and a roughly equal proportion
(51 percent) are seasoned farmworkers. Four out of five
are of Hispanic origin, with a substantial share speak­
ing little or no English (In fact, more than half 56 per­
cent of all those reached out to by the Program have
limited; English j5mfi<rietiq$; Nearly three In four (73
percent) are-high school dropouts. .
Pact: There is broad-based and bipartisan support
for continuing the Natipnal Farmworkers Job Program.
.In 2004, despite file Administrations first attempt to
end the program, Congress appropriated $76.7 million
for the/NFJP on a strong bipartisan basis.
:Fact: The National Farmworkers Job Program does
not duplicate ofiieriprograms. The National'jFadnworker Job Prpgrairi is the only federal program of its type
that fo6u$e$ $pe6ifically pri the needs of the 3 ihi&ion
farmworker in tlra U;S. It focuses on the unique prob­
lems crOafed by their pervasive poverty (most bam less
than $10,000 per year), lack of health care benefits,
and the fact that they must travel hundreds of miles to
seek work. NFJP seeks to provide (1) job' training
needed to move people out of the migrant/seasonal
worker category or (2) the assistance needed to get in­
dividuals and families out of the worst of the throes of
poverty.
' Rural Opportunities, Inc. (ROI) strengthens
families and revitalizes communities. ROI is a
private, non-profit community development or­
ganization providing services to farmworkers,
low-income families and economically depressed
communities in New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Puerto Rico.
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