The groundhog may have seen is shadow and disappeared back into his shelter, but area businesses, during the first week of February, had the pleasure of having their visitors stay for an entire day or in some instances, two days.
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Phil Bosse, left, at the Caribou office of U.S. Senator Susan Collins showed Loring Job Corps student Clint Williams the ropes during his two-day stint job-shadowing at the senator’s district office. Although a computer networking student, Williams learned first hand the ethics required to work or volunteer with a U.S. senator. Williams, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been in the area for two months and stated he did find it to be rather cold here.
Groundhogs in area business? — No, job-shadowing students from the Loring Job Corps Center. Each day of that week, students could be seen in Caribou and Presque Isle learning the operations of a wide-variety of jobs ranging from the way a paper is set to print at Northeast Publishing to observing the re-conditioning of military vehicles at the Maine Military Authority.
Many of the students found themselves shadowing in a field that was far removed from their actual course of study at the Loring Job Corps Center, including Theresa Ray-Ladela who is studying to become a certified medical assistant but spent her job-shadowing day in the office of the Aroostook Republican and News.
The LJC job shadowing students each displayed an outgoing, friendly personality while eagerly observing and learning about the vast variety of careers available to them in the future.
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Loring Job Corps student Michael McLellan, a native of Westbrook, who is studying to become a certified medical technician spent a day assisting Steve Corbin, director of Caribou’s emergency management agency. McLellan who has been in the County since Oct. 5, plans to continue in the medical field once finished with his courses at the Job Corps site by earning a BA in nursing.
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Diana Secula, seated, spent a day away from her Loring Job Corps classes when she job shadowed at the Caribou branch of the American Red Cross on High Street with Ben Zetterman and Joyce Knorr, director of the local Red Cross branch. Secula, of Bridgeport, Conn., has been at LJC for one year, is taking courses to become a clinical medical assistant and has hopes to earn a PHD in forensic science.
