http://www.bouldercounty.org/youthcorps
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COLORADO:
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jan/27/youth-corps-accepting-applications-summer-jobs/
“Boulder County Youth Corps to hire 170 for summer jobs”
By Heath Urie
Originally published 12:24 p.m., January 27, 2009
Updated 12:24 p.m., January 27, 2009
SNIPPET: “Projects will include thinning forests, building trails, constructing fences and doing historic restoration and landscaping. Youth Corps teams will work in unincorporated Boulder County as well as in Lafayette, Louisville, Longmont and Superior.”
OKLAHOMA:
http://newsok.com/recession-helps-restore-demand-for-repair-shops/article/3341478
“Recession helps restore demand for repair shops”
BY JENNIFER PALMER
Published: January 29, 2009
SNIPPET: “But that’s a good thing. Brown is owner of PSP Repair Service in Oklahoma City, a business that fixes PlayStation Portable and Xbox video game players.
Economic troubles have brought many new customers to her door, so many that she’s considering hiring an employee to help her with the work.
“It’s just gone crazy,” she said. “I can’t keep up.”
It’s a trend several metro-area repair shops are seeing: In hard times, people fix what they have rather than buy new.”