r.
obbie B nn t said befor
getting into the program he
didn't ha any experie in do­
ing ny of t job; that she .
doing no . "0 after this is
o r, I'm going to try and find me
a erjob."
21 t Initiative is a housingre­
h bilit tion program here
th re is hands-on job training of
b ic co truction skills to eligi­
bl 21 t Initiative participants.
The purpose of the program is
to create fe affordable high
quality hom for purchase by
low and moderate income fami-
lies. .
CORD, a non-profit housing
corporation, is t developer on
this housing project and has re­
ceived pproval from the State of
Michigan forth money that will
be used to habilitate twelve
hom as part of CORD Lease­
To- Purchase program.
THE DEPARTMENT of S0-
cial S rvices roSS), the Private
Industry Council (PIC), Project
Together, and CORD are wor -
ing to ther to provide the job
training component of the 21
Initiative Program.
PIC provides minimum age
of 4.25 an hour to the wor
ere ,th t is paid through PIC's
Work Experience Program.
Gwain McCree of DSS said
t Department of Social Serv­
i waived a requirement that
would cut the participants'
ch allowing them to receive
the full benefit of their wage
without a reduction of their
che from DSS.
Fred Schultz, Executive Di­
rect r of CORD said, in January
of this year Michigan State
Hou ing Development Authority
mad available a grant of
$250,000 for housing rehab and
with the $250,000 they already
had, they had .enough to do the
12 houses. .
. He said the money is avail­
abl 0 mall cities where there
i ither a Communities First
program or a Neighborhood
P rvation program. Benton
Harbor is one of the 18 neighbor­
hoods in Michigan that meet this
requirement.
Schultz said CORD is looking
for 10 more houses to rehab.
contlnued frem Peg A1
fight sickness and hunger. The
tudy was based mostly on pro­
jections from what the re­
searchers called the only
high-quality, long-term tracking
of births and deaths in Haiti. The
. tracking was done by the relief
agency Save the Children.
continu d from A3
after 10 yea of the lifer law
(how many) were convicted for
"delivery" or " conspiracy to de­
liver" - 1 rious crim for
which parole is out of the qu -
tion.
"It will be difficult to get this
through conservative Senate
y," Louney id.
A Rolling Stone magazine ar­
tiel tated that Fannon's ap­
a for xecutive pardon by
Gov. John Engler have far
n unsu ful, yet both the
gov rnor's office nd the parole
board y he has never filed for
a "commutation of sentence. •
If Hull with th plain­
out th current
tem, th ult li ly could
m n uph val in th county'
I gal and political y tern.
The current jud are nearly
half ay through erght-year
terms that began in 1990. If th
curren tern' scrapped, n w
el ction Ii ely would be re­
quired.
In n Oct. 8 ord r, Hull ug­
gested the possibility of setting
up electoral districts for each
court, uch as having four dis-
tri for Circuit Court and th
for Criminal Court.
Th onth me
I w Blac plaintiffs u fully
in 1989 to bolish th old
at-large elect d Ch ttanooga
City Comrni ion form of govern­
ment, in which only one Black
had been elected in 79 y
T timony in the trial, which
gan Monday, is expected to
tak six to eight days.
A Busi IIndustrylEducation Forum
NOVEMB 23, 1993
Highland Community High School
Highland Par Michigan'
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