Career day is sponsored by the Henderson County JobLink Career Center, at the college, and the Workforce Development Division of the Greater Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce. This past Wednesday almost 900 eighth graders from the four Henderson County middle schools were to be on campus for the another Chamber-sponsored event, the annual Education Expo, this year subtitled What WORK Will Require of You, designed to impress on the students the skills they will need in order to be competitive in today s workplace. Industry representatives present skits on topics ranging from the importance of math and computer skills to teamwork and dealing with change. Scheduled to participate, in addition to BRCC and the Chamber, were representatives from GE Lighting Systems, Kimberly-Clark, Printpack, Manpower, State Employees Credit Union and the Henderson County Sheriff s Department On March 27, twenty individuals from Henderson, Buncombe, Polk and Transylvania Counties received certificates as Habitat Stewards from the National Wildlife Federation, after completing Western North Carolina s first Habitat Steward Training Program, offered through the BRCC Environmental Training Center. The students participated in 24 hours of training, designed to help them improve their backyards for wildlife and involve them in local wildlife habitat restoration projects.
Graduates are prepared to serve as mentors to help others garden in an environmentally friendly way.
Each graduate is expected to donate a minimum of 50 hours of service to projects such as backyard wildlife habitats, schoolyard and workplace habitats, and community-wide habitat restoration. BRCC horticulture student Luci Borja conducted sessions on Butterflies and Butterly Gardening and Native Plant Materials, while administrative assistant Linda Finster was over-all coordinator for the program. Joe Duckett, director of the Flat Rock Nature Center, now located on campus, taught one session on native plant propagation and plant rescue and another on bird, bat, butterfly and toad houses, plus joined with German instructor Ted Etherington to lead the final session, Sharing Your Knowledge and Giving Presentations. More courses are being planned. If interested in more information, call Linda at 692-3572, ext.