Perkins SGA Members Meet With Congressman Hal Rogers

SGA representatives Brook Wright, Mariela Rivera, Jennifer Bryant and Kendrick Williams meet with Congressman Hal Rogers, center, during a PRIDE banquet in Salyersville, Kentucky.

Four members of the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Student Government Associate met with Congressman Hal Rogers on April 4th at a PRIDE (Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment) banquet in Salyersville, Kentucky. Rogers talked with students Brook Wright, Mariela Rivera, Jennifer Bryant and Kendrick Williams about their Job Corps experience and thanked them and other Perkins students for volunteering in the clean-up effort following the devastating tornados that hit Salyersville on March 2nd. Students invited Rogers to visit the center and tour the academic and career technical training programs on center.

The PRIDE initiative was started in 1997 by Rogers and the late General James Bickford, former secretary of the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, as a way to restore the natural beauty of Kentucky by encouraging citizens to take responsibility for protecting the environment. Under the PRIDE initiatives, funding, through a series of grants, is provided for projects in eastern Kentucky and for education and resources needed to complete these projects.