Looking for a job that gets you outdoors every day? There are openings now with the California Conservation Corps in Watsonville.The CCC has full-time opportunities for young men and women ages 18 to 25. All corpsmembers are nonresidential, reporting to the CCC’s Pinto Lake facility in Watsonville at 7 a.m. each morning, Monday through Thursday.Deadline for entering in June is May 28. Openings are also available for July. For application information, call the CCC’s Phara Meng at (831) 539-8526.CCC crews work throughout Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties on a variety of projects. They include trail building, fire hazard reduction, landscaping, weatherization, and wildlife habitat improvement and restoration. When natural disasters occur, corpsmembers may be dispatched within hours to fires or floods.CCC Center Director Brenda Burks-Herrmann said young people get multiple benefits when they join the Corps.“It’s a chance to develop a strong work ethic while working on natural resource projects right here in our local communities,” she said. “Corpsmembers get great work experience that can lead to future careers.”Participants without high school diplomas will be enrolled in the John Muir Charter School and work towards graduating while in the CCC. Corpsmembers can also earn scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $4,700, to continue their education after the Corps.Monterey Bay corpsmembers have extensive training opportunities as well, ranging from tool use and chain saw operation to leadership classes, along with local internships with Central Coast Energy Services.The Monterey Bay Center is one of more than two dozen California Conservation Corps locations throughout the state. The CCC is a state agency created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1976. Since that time, more than 115,000 young men and women have been a part of the Corps.
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