Horizons Youth Services

Perkins Job Corps volunteers for Operation Clean Sweep

Carl D. Perkins Job Corps students spent the week of March 16-20 at Jenny Wiley State Park cleaning up trash and debris from the lake after the recent flooding. The Security & Protective Service students, along with their Instructor Jeffory Aldrich, worked each day on the lake collecting tires, garbage, hot water tanks, and other debris from the lake.

“After the recent flooding to the area, this week was vital to the clean-up process,” said Julian Slone, the park manager. Over the course of the week students collected 4.76 tons of trash, about 1,000 more pounds than they collected last year, according to Slone. Each year, the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps and the Jenny Wiley State Park partner on many community service events and projects at the park.