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Monday, January 16, 2012
A new facility opens its doors in central Iowa next week, and the goal is to train people for the growing field of green jobs.
The unemployed or people looking for a career change have the option of going back to class next week for free. The I-GREEN Learning Center in Newton opens Monday for the first class.
Student Jack McCuen is turning the page on a new career. He says, “I know how good the money is in this trade, so when this opportunity came by, there was no way I could pass it up.”
McCuen will learn to be a lineman. He says the trade is in demand, and at $30 to $40 an hour, he’ll make more than he did at his previous job. He says, “My dad’s been a lineman my entire life, but I’ve never tried it and don’t know much about it, so I’m coming to learn.”
He signed up for the first class at the I-GREEN Learning Center. It’s a ten week course that teaches the trade of putting up power poles. The first class is free thanks to a government grant and discounts through the training center. Director Phillip Stender says, “We’re going to teach them how to climb poles and the materials that electrical linemen work with.”
Stender says the class is just the beginning. He says they plan to offer more in the future, focusing on different types of renewable energy. Stender says,“Any big renewable project that happens that generates electricity or power will be distributed by electrical lineman and we felt this was the first good place to start.”
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