Free Job Training Gives Hoosiers Hope Amid Pandemic
Courtesy Washington Township Adult Education
As a dying wish to her mother, 48-year-old Winona Parker vowed to get her high school diploma.
It would take the Indianapolis woman four years, and half a dozen attempts, to make her career dream a reality.
“I would say to myself, ‘No matter what has come against me, I was now determined more than ever to achieve my goal,’” she recalls in an email.
Now, the former fast-food worker is enrolled in a pharmacy tech training program. It will allow her to be certified in about four months to help serve pharmacy teams on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
BCHS JAG program takes over Angel Tree project, invites community to help
BROWNSTOWN
Peggy Kovert was Brownstown Central High School’s Angel Tree sponsor and main influencer to ensure local kids have a good Christmas.
After the longtime teacher died unexpectedly Oct. 18, the school’s Jobs for America’s Graduates program was approached about inheriting the tree to continue Kovert’s tradition and its mission.
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Brownstown Central High School Jobs for America s Graduates students, from left, senior Marena Ballard and juniors Gracie Boles, Reanna Ruddick and Bailey Davis stand next to the school s Angel Tree. Submitted photo