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About Opportunity news. (Woodburn, Oregon) 1965-1968 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1966)
He OPPORTUNITY NEWS, Friday, July 15, 1966 Pag© 2 VAIL adult education looks to new job opportunitie By Don Wilcox If 1000 migrant and other farm workers learn new skills and get better jobs during the next 18 months, our nation w ill be a little stronger. According to Sarah Hall O P P O R T U N I T Y N EW S Vol. 2, No. 28 Friday, July 15, 1966 Goodwin, director of VML adult education, the Valley Migrant Lea gue has been planning since last March fo r a program that w ill a- chieve this goal. This is a part of the This newspaper is a publication of the VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE P. O. Box 128 Woodburn, Oregon Valley Migrant League phone 981-3171 Newspaper phone 981-9711 Will P. Pape, Executive Director * * * long range plan of the VML adult education department, in response to many requests by VML staff They w ill help farm workers f job training and better jobs. members and farm workers. Now the first step has come. The Office of Economic Opportunity of Washington has granted $234,490 for an 18 month program. The pro gram is called Job Development, Counseling and Placement. Bob Wynia of the VML adult education department has been named voca tional coordinator by W ill Rape, executive director of VML. Six job counselors and seven counselor aides w ill be employed. They w ill w ork in each opportunity center. Boxing classes are popular at Eola DAY CARE, CLOTHING NEEDED Can you give shoes, sweaters, clothing of any kind for some little tots at Dayton Day Care? It's an urgent request, says Ru ben Contreras, supervisor of the VML Opportunity Center at Day- ton. Anything at all that might fit little children, from infants up to the age of five, w ill be useful. Day Care at the Dayton Gram mar School, Dayton, w ill receive your donations w ith appreciation. MIGRANT FAMILIES NEED MATTRESSES Migrant families in the Yamhill county areas need mattresses, espe cially fu ll size mattresses for dou ble beds. If you can donate a mat tress, please notify the Dayton Op portunity Center. partment w ill also assume V ■a w ork loads. Lane Williams wi Be the consultant for the teach iris staff of Spoken English, G.E, Ch and Basic Education classes. ime This newspaper w ill bring enti additional stories about Job Dei ad i opment, Counseling and Placem |r< as the program develops. JU íó c Mg AT THE DAYTONA THIS WEB b Paul Ratliff, owner of the D tona Theater, Dayton, sends us Don Wilcox, Editor Rick Simon, Assistant Editor Priscilla Carrasco, Editorial Assistant and Circulation Manager Julie Behar, Editorial Assistant Leonora Guinazzo Samuel Hernandez Translations Judi Jarvill Secretary * * * OPPORTUNITY NEWS is published weekly for free distribution to seasonal farm workers of this area, and to per sons interested in the activities of the VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE. “We must open the doors of oppor tunity. But' we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.” Lyndon B. Johnson President United States I “Surely, it is not beyond our re sources nor our ingenuity to include in our war against poverty these always ‘excluded’ Americans (the migrants).” Sargent Shriver Director Office of Economic Opportunity The VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE, sponsor of this newspaper, is a part of the President’s War on Poverty and is funded toy the Office of Economic Op portunity, Washington, D.C. As Wynia turns to these time responsiblities, other mbps bers of the VML adult educationbnl announcement: The double feati for this Saturday, July 16, at 7 and Sunday, 17, at 2:30 wi SIGUIENDO PISTAS, with Adrij Welter and Armando Silvestre; LOS APUROS DE DOS GALLI with Miguel Aceves Mejia Marco Antonio Muniz. THE SMILING MAN in the center of the picture is John Smith, Mc Minnville, a former Golden Gloves boxer. He has volunteered to or ganize boxing classes at Eola Vil lage. By Bob Watt, VISTA John Smith, an interested citi zen from McMinnville, has started a boxing class at the recreation hall at Eola Villuage. The class meets twice a week and so far the atten dance has grown at each meeting. Smith is with the Soil Conserva tion Service of McMinnville and is a former heavyweight Golden Gloves boxer. Bob Watt, VISTA Vo lunteer, assists Smith with the class. They both hope to have many gra duates by the end of the summer. The class is very popular in Eola Village. The gloves were donated by Mr. Worthman of the First National Bank of McMinnville. Paul Ratliff, proprietario del C Eh Daytona de Daytona, nos ha m dado el siguente noticiario: El f grama doble este sábado, el de julio a las 7:30 y el dominge 17, a las 2:30 será — SIGUIENg PISTAS con Adriana Welter y mando Silvestre; y LOS APUROS DOS GALLOS con Miguel Ace Mejía y Marco Antonio Muñiz. Texas teachers tour d ay care By Julie Behar Two teachers from McAllen, Texas, Mrs. Cynthia Love and Miss Minerva Castro, are touring the day care and summer schools of VML as well as other summer care and educational programs for mi grant children in Oregon. They teach at the Central Elementary School, a migrant school in Mc Allen, Texas. Mrs. Love and Miss Castro are one of twelve teams touring the migrant programs for children in 12 states (Oregon, Indiana, Idaho, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, Wiscon sin, California, Washington, Minne sota, Nebraska, and Illinois). Their goal is "to correlate our w inter pro gram with the summer programs in these 12 states," explained Mrs. Love. In 1963, the Central Elementary School in McAllen was one of five migrant schools in Texas that had a 6-month program w ith a longer daily schedule (8 hours) and fewer holidays. Today there are 40 such schools. This 6-month program gives the migrant children an edu cation equal to the instructional hours required in a 9 month school year. "So far we have visited Dayton, Independence, North Plains and Woodburn, and we are very im pressed w ith the day care that VML provides," said Mrs. Castro. "It's just wonderful," added Mrs. Love. A t the end of the interview Mrs. Love volunteered, "You know, your newspaper influenced my coming n, c to Oregon a great deal. I read from cover to cover and I was v impressed. . .Yes, we were V fortunate to be able to come Oregon." 'TI ¡( ir in fr
