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| Centralina WDB Regional News |
A Couple Opens Local Grocery Store, With the Help of the NCWorks Career Center-Union!
"We could not have done this without their help," is one of the first things Khosrow and Maryan Gharavi said at the beginning of an interview just one year ago, after opening a new grocery store in Monroe, NC.
The owners are husband and wife, Khosrow and Maryan Gharavi who started their own business (Save-A-Lot as a franchise) about a year ago, (February 10, 2016) with the help of the NCWorks Career Center-Union.
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Centralina WDB and Regional Partners Receive Certified Career Pathway
The Southwest Prosperity Zone - which includes the 10 counties served by the Centralina WDB, CharlotteWorks, and Gaston County workforce development boards - received certification for its advanced manufacturing career pathway at the NCWorks Commission quarterly meeting on Feb. 8 in Raleigh..
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Alevo Energy Eyes $250M Expansion, 202 New Jobs
Concord-based
Alevo Energy
is considering spending more than $250 million to expand production at its utility battery plant and add 202 jobs there.
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NC Chamber Foundation Names Iredell County NC Works Certified Work Ready Community
Over 80 local business leaders gathered at the NC Works Certified Work Ready Community celebration held at the Unity Center in Statesville on Thursday, January 26, 2017. President and CEO, Lew Ebert of the North Carolina Chamber Foundation presented Chairman, James Mallory of the Iredell County Board of Commissioners the NC Works Certified Work Ready Community certificate at the celebration.
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Gaston College: New Vice President for Academic Affairs Named
Dr. Dewey D. Dellinger has been promoted to the position of vice president for academic affairs at Gaston College. He is responsible for overseeing the Arts and Sciences, Business and Information Technology, Engineering and Industrial Technologies, and Health and Human Services academic divisions as well as educational partnerships, distance education, institutional effectiveness, and the libraries.
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Gaston College Receives $155,399 Grant from Senior Service America, Inc.
Older Adults to Work, Receive Training, and Assist Local Agencies Serving The Community
Gaston College announced today that it was awarded a grant of $155,399 from Senior Service America, Inc. Almost 90 percent of this grantor-originally from the U.S. Department of Labor-will provide temporary employment to at least 48 low-income older adults living in Gaston and Lincoln Counties.
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Gaston College Receives Grant to Fund Building Maintenance Certification Program
Gaston College has received a grant to start its new Building Maintenance Certificate Program, a training program designed to meet the immediate need for qualified maintenance and repair employees for apartment complexes and commercial buildings such as government and hospital facilities. Read the Story |
| Rowan County Launches Effort to Obtain Work Ready Certification
Representatives from a variety of local organizations plan to answer that question by obtaining a work-ready certification through a North Carolina Chamber of Commerce program. On Monday, Mark Seifel, who works for the Centralina Workforce Development Board, updated the Rowan County Board of Commissioners on a local effort to obtain the certification.
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RowanWorks Welcomes New Director of Business Development
RowanWORKS is excited to announce the addition of Kendall Henderson as our new Director of Business Development.
Kendall is a graduate of UNC Wilmington with six years of experience in business development. Most recently, she was employed by Phase 3 Marketing and Communications in Charlotte, NC, where she quickly moved up to become the Senior Business Development Manager.
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Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is excited to bring a mobile version of its award-winning R3 (Refocus, Retrain, Re-employ) model to Rowan County. The program will support the new "Better Jobs for Better Lives in Rowan County" initiative.
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Stanly Select Smith as EDC Director
Stanly County announced Tuesday that
Michael Smith has accepted the county's offer to become the
new economic development director.
Smith has more than 25 years of progressive economic and business development experience in both the public and private sectors
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Workforce Credentials are the New Currency of Site Location Success
Availability of skilled or at least trainable workers tops most lists of site criteria, and your HR department is probably already wading through the various resources areas and organizations are making available to quantify skillsets at your disposal.
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