Posted on 09/13/2014 8:13:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOX) - The protests and riots in Ferguson highlighted what many already knew—residents in many North St. Louis county towns are facing unemployment, poverty and lack of educational achievement.
Organizers say a job and resource fair on Saturday, Sept. 13 is designed to tackle those issues.
“We’re all alarmed by the situation and events that are happening, but I’m hoping that out of that something good can come out of it, and that’s getting people jobs and getting folks back into the educational setting,” says St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley Interim President Ruby Curry.
The Urban League of Metro St. Louis teamed up with St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley to create the fair in record time.
Curry says the school has had job fairs in the past with 60 companies.
“This year, with this event, we believe we’ll have 86 employment vendors and 33 resource vendors,” Curry says.
The resources will include free groceries and toiletries. Curry says there will be on-site interviews, so those looking for work should come dressed appropriately.
The job and resource fair will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Florissant Valley campus on Pershall Road in Ferguson.
A job fair without Primerica (fka A.L. Williams) or Combined Insurance (in the old days) isn’t a real job fair.
It worked for Obama.
Boeing? THE Boeing company?
They could pay me min wage to get coffee and I’d be happy as a pig in mud. To be around all that aviation history...
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