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LVMAC Tidbit — Veterans Employment Representative Announcements
A new weekly feature has been added to the Job Board to provide additional, consolidated, local employment information, CareerLink’s VER Desk Notes. ### As of 19 February 2014
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LVMAC Tidbit — Lehigh County Advertising for County Director of Veterans Affairs Position
Lehigh County’s Human Resources Department is seeking a person to fulfill the role of County Director of Veterans Affairs. For more information or to apply, click here (you may have to scroll down a few positions). ### As of 13 February 2014
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LVMAC Tidbit: PPL Wants to Work With the Council
Anthony Pearson, Founder and President of PPLVets, a “Business Resource Group” (BRG) of PPL Corporation, the local power and light company, spoke to the Council at its 19 June business meeting. He is Persian Gulf War (Gulf War I) Marine who served from 1989 through 1993.
Pearson explained PPL has had ten other minority and special group BRG’s since it began them about 13 to 14 years ago, but it had never had one for veterans until (more…)
Forward Observer
Forward Observer — Something Smart from the PA Dept. of Labor and Industry That Might Help Veterans
When it comes to helping veterans find employment — having done away with its Governor’s Veterans Outreach and Assistance Centers (and using them properly before that) and having had problems with the staffing of 
its Veterans Employment Representative program — the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) has not exactly been a frontrunner among state labor departments. But its JobGatewaySM is a web product which comes as close to providing a one-stop employment shopping environment online as you can get, and has the potential to actually help our veterans community because it also tries to engage prospective employers providing good, wage paying jobs, registering those who pass muster. (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbits — Five Guys Decide to Raise Money for ‘Support No Stigma’
Five Guys (Burgers) will be holding the fundraiser from 24 to 26 June for a new local organization, Support No Stigma. If interested in supporting this organization, all you have to do eat at one of the three locations in the area and present the flyer when you pay. Five Guys Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit — Thinking of Starting Your Own Business?
Want to start your own business? Tired of working for someone else? Unemployed or underemployed and want to change your life? You’re not alone. Nearly 40% of returning current conflict veterans have expressed a desire to work for themselves.
Can you afford to spare one night a week for ten weeks (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit — Habitat Wants a Veteran for a Supervisory Position
Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley, a low income housing building ministry which relies on volunteers, is keenly interested in finding veterans to help them because they come with many of the skill sets needed. It is currently offering a paid, part-time supervisory position at its new Lehigh Valley Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit — Last Call for 2013 Student Vets Conference
Less than two weeks are left until the March 2nd through 3rd Student Veterans Education & Employment Conference at the William Pitt Student Union on the University of Pittsburgh campus, Pittsburgh, PA. Register today to meet the Student Veterans of America Staff and National Leadership Council Members who know first-hand effective strategies for supporting student veterans. And even fewer days are left to register. The deadline for registration is Friday, February 22nd. (more…)
LVMAC NEWS
LVMAC News — Babb-ling on About Military History
In This Issue
- Mr. Babb Talks About the Veterans History Project Roundtable
- Veterans Affairs Committee Develops Its Operating Budget
- Looking Forward on the Homelessness Front
- 2013 Scholarship Season Opening
- Re-looking Our Employment Programs
- Health Care Initiative Progressing
- Project Healing Waters Events Set for 2013
- Focus on Colleges Begins
- Report on the War Veterans Council
- DoD/VA News
MR. BABB TALKS ABOUT THE VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT ROUNDTABLE
David Babb, a historian and interviewer for the Lehigh Valley Veterans History Project Roundtable, a member organization, spoke to the Council at its business meeting on 17 January 2013.
His organization was formed in 2007 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization two capture the stories of all wartime veterans and also those who served on the home front. It collects documents and preserves their personal experiences and then shares those stories with both the public and the Library of Congress. To date about 200 interviews have been done. (more…)
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LVMAC News — McKenrick Talks About a New VA Regional Office
In This Issue:
- The New Director of the Philadelphia VA Regional Office Introduces Himself to the Council
- Community Educational Outreach’s Journey of Discovery Reaches Its End
- Changing Our Stripes in Employment
- Health Care in Our Community is at a Critical Stage in Its Development
- Adam Keys Smart Home Build May or May Not Continue
- A New Program Director Has Been Found for the Visitation Program
- LVMAC is on a Mission to Recruit All the Area’s Universities and Colleges
- Finally, Something Significant Out of State Government
The New Director of the Philadelphia VA Regional Office Introduces Himself to the Council
Robert McKenrick, the relatively new Director of the newly reorganized Philadelphia VA Regional Office of the Veterans Benefits Administration, spoke to the Council at its business meeting on 21 November. He brought along Eileen Kostic, Manager of the Veterans Service Center, and Leroy Saunders, a Military Services Coordinator. Mr. McKenrick is a current war veteran from the Army Reserve.
Recently what was known as the VA Regional Office and Insurance Center (VARIOC) split (more…)