Herald & Lantern 16 March '83

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PIC Offers Secretarial Skills Training Program

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Cape May County's Private Industry Council (PIC) is offering a secretarial skills training program for 20 low-income residents. Enrollees must be economically disadvantaged, unemployed or underemployed, read and: spell at a minimum 10thgrade level, and be able to type at least 25 words per minute Applicants should contact PIC at 806-0975. The PIC Council approved the $65,154 project last week. Classes will run from March 28 to July 1 and will be conducted by the county Vocational Schools. STUDENTS will be paid *3.35 an hour while atten ding classes for 30 hours a week for 13 weeks Cost would total $26,130 PIC will pay $28,604 for salary and fringe benefits for one full-time instructor, one part-time instructor, a part-time CETA (Com prehensive Employment and Training Act) coordinator, part-time secretary and other ad minislrative. placement and counseling costs~ Classes will be held at the Vocational Technical Center at Crest Haven The project's budget includes $2,000 for trainee travel

expenses PIC DIRECTOR Nan Mavromates called the project "an excellent way to upgrade our work force." „ Students' typing speed will be increased to at least 60 words per minute. They also will receive training in work processing equipment. dictation, etc. The Vocational Schools also will coordinate job placement. The projection includes $6,400 to pay employers $2 an hour for four. 40-hour-weeks of on-the-job training The PIC Council also approved an $18,900 project to train eight people to become electronics and TV cable installers and technicians. GROUP W. CABLE TV of Wildwood will be paid $4,288 for four weeks of classroom training and $11,520 for half of the $4.50-per hour pay the technical trainees will receive during 80 days of on-the-job training. PIC also settled a two month old transportation problem that delayed ap proval of a'project to train handicapped persons to work in Atlantic City

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COURT HOUSE - Cape May County Surrogate W Robert Hentges has volunteered to participate in a pilot project hearing certajn cases that now must be heard bv a Superior Court Judge As recommended by a 1980 Supreme Court study on efficiency, Hentges would hear formal accoun tings, adoptions, and . un contested cases of "doubt or difficulty " He said there have been only two contested adoptions and a half-dozen contested accountings in his 11

\ years as surrogate Idea is to relieve overworked Superior Court judges and save moeny. Hentges said

CORRECTION The executive director of Cape Human Resources Inc was incorrectly iden tified in last week's Herald and Lantern Her name is Bernice H Gordon

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Quinn ‘Employee Of Month"

COURT HOUSE - Sheriff Beech N Fox has announced the recent selection of Correction Officer Thomas M. Quinn as employee of the month for February at the County Correctional Center Quinn is a lifelong resident of the county, and resides in Lower Township with his wife and year-old daughter. He graduated from Wildwood High School and served with the United States Marine Corps for four years Quinn has been employed by the Sheriff’s Depart ment since 1979. He is a graduate of Correction Of-

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