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ST. JOSEPH
Jail in
a new
Patton accus
throwing lun
tray at jail gu
By JULIE SWIDWA
HP Staff Writer
Photos by Tony Wittkowski / HP staff
Ashley Mitchell, left, and Domoniek Erby listen to questions from Whirlpool Corp. volunteers Thursday during a mock interview
session at Riverview Campus in Benton Harbor. Erby and Mitchell attend Benton Harbor High School.
Learning about the job hunt
JMG, Whirlpool
hosts students
for Mock
Interview Day
By TONY WITTKOWSKI
HP Staff Writer
BENTON HARBOR —
Inside a large room in Whirlpool Corp.’s newest portion
of its Riverview Campus,
Ashley Mitchell was asked
about her strengths and
weaknesses.
The Benton Harbor High
School senior was interviewed for a fictional job
she did not intend to pursue.
However, the experience
was duplicated for the other
50 students Wednesday who
were there for Mock Interview Day.
The mock interviews
are an annual collaboration
between Jobs for Michigan’s
Graduates and the home
appliance maker employee
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ST. JOSEPH —
already in jail facing
charges has found
in even more troub
allegedly hurling h
tray at a jail deputy
Bernard
Patton, 38,
was bound
over for trial
on a charge
of
assault
of a prison
employee after a hearing
P
Thursday before Berrien Coun
Court Judge Donn
ard. That is a felon
ing a maximum pe
five years in prison.
Patton, of Bento
bor, already faces
of assault with in
murder, first-degre
invasion, two cou
assault with a da
weapon, discharge o
arm at or towards
ing, possession of a
by a felon, weapon
firearms, possession
Canin
By JOHN MATUSZAK
HP Staff Writer
ST. JOSEPH —
rien County comm
wants to make sure
Glenn Roper, a digital marketing manager at Whirlpool Corp., interviews two students about fic- public servant has
tional jobs Thursday as part of a mock interview session at Riverview Campus in Benton Harbor. fortable retirement.
That individual i
resource group called FO- students from Benton Har- continuing my education a 7-year-old Belgia
CUS – formerly known as bor, Bridge Academy, Dow- because I know I’ll end up nois and part of t
Whirlpool’s African Ameri- agiac and Hartford showed needing to be ready for in- iff’s department’s K
can Network.
off their interview and em- terviews,” said Mitchell, who is retiring.
“I spend more ti
During their visit to ployability skills.
See JOB HUNT, page A4
him than my fami
Whirlpool,
participating
“I’m looking forward to
his handler, Depu
Dyer, at Thursday’
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ner, Pokky, and daughter Zarrah
ky, who received a box of treats
ll live with the Dyer family. Berup the cost of treating Pokky’s
Along with running down
the bad guys, Pokky finds
the good guys. Dyer recalled an assignment when
he helped find an autistic
man who had wandered
away during the night.
Through it all Pokky has
maintained a positive attitude.
“The best thing about
him is that he is so social,”
Dyer said. “He can do his
job, and then he will come
up to you and want you to
pet him.”
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other reasons. We want to
continue providing police
service that our township
residents appreciate. Residents have gotten used to
the quick response time
and personal service you
get when having your own
dedicated police coverage.”
Township residents can
vote from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
at Township Hall, 17425
Red Arrow Highway.
who is pursuing a career in
dental hygiene. “I thought
it was a good opportunity.
These interviews will help
me for when the real thing
comes along.”
Each student sat through
two mock interviews that
lasted 10 minutes Wednesday with Whirlpool volunteers. The event gave students a real-world interview
experience, while also getting
tips and advice from volunteers in five-minute segments
after each interview.
JMG is a statewide initiative meant to raise Michigan’s high school graduation rate and increase
post-secondary education.
The program’s executive director, Kristin Harrington,
said the interview sessions
were a way to highlight all
the soft skills JMG students
had worked on this year.
roads tax is 0.9913 mill, the
fire safety levy is 0.98020,
the safety/ambulance tax is
0.45960 mill and the library
levy is 1.1546 mills.
“We go over all the best
practices that come with
finding a job. Resume writing and interviewing skills
are just a part of it,” Harrington said. “Maintaining
eye contact can be important, which isn’t always a
given with young people.”
Tameka Robertson, a
care advisor at the Customer Experience Center
for Whirlpool and community lead for FOCUS,
said Mock Interview Day
evolved from something a
Whirlpool employee began
nearly a decade ago.
Robertson, who began
helping at the annual event,
said the employee wanted
to prepare seniors for job
searching. Six years ago,
JMG got involved and the
event became focused on interviewing skills.
“Her first intent was to
educate on finances and
accounting and it changed
to mock interviews,” Robertson said. “It became fo-
cused on what the real need
was.”
The sessions, which ran
the gambut of soft skills
from handshakes to eye
contact, included seniors
and juniors.
Dominick Erby, a Benton
Harbor junior, is interested
in becoming a computer
engineer and decided he
wasn’t going to risk being
unprepared for future interviews.
He said he felt the random questions he was given
by the carousel of interviewers helped test his improvisation.
Meanwhile, it was Mitchell who was thankful for the
tips she received from her
resume and cover letter.
“They helped me when
it came to my objective on
my resume,” she said. “It
should state what I’m going
toward. I was just bragging
about myself instead of saying what I hoped to accomplish.”
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Britain Avenue and Empire
Avenue.
After the work at Pipestone and Wall streets is
done, Watson said only two
more intersections are left
to be done – where Pipe- Drug Disposal
stone intersects with Jef- The Berrien Co. Sheriff
ferson Court and Market Dept. will be collecting
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made aggressive cuts to the
2017-18 budget to try to
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