Ville Platte Rotary Hears from South Louisiana Community College Officials

August 30, 2016

     The Ville Platte Rotary Club today (Tuesday) heard from Jermaine Ford, the director of the Corporate College and Carlene Jones, campus administrator for the Ville Platte Coreil Campus of the South Louisiana Community College system.

     Ford said he was excited to announce a new short term training program for the Coreil Campus. The brand new program will be automotive training with two levels of instruction: maintenance and light repair and advanced automotive. The instructor will be Clint Hebert. School officials have already begun to partner up with dealerships and retailers to offer training and employment. The new class will train students in six months or less. Students interested in signing up can register at acadianaopportunity.com or visit the campus.

    Ford also announced two other new short term courses that will soon be offered at the Acadian Campus in Crowley: truck driving and scaffolding at the New Iberia campus. This is a correction from what we had announced earlier. These two courses will not be offred at the Coreil Campus in Ville Platte..

    Campus administrator Carlene Jones announced that the school is currently offering courses such as welding, medical assistant, business administration and general studies. She said “The school is here to stay”. She is asking for volunteers especially retirees who could volunteer a few hours a week to tutor students struggling with math courses.

   The speakers were the guests of Rotarian Dr. Joey Soileau.

   In other news, Ville Platte Mayor Jennifer Vidrine received a round of applause from the club members for her hard work during the flooding crisis to help local and parish residents.

   The mayor announced that 1127 people have applied for FEMA and emergency food stamp assistance at the Civic Center in the last two weeks. FEMA officials are at the civic center and are inspecting homes and businesses damaged by the recent floods. FEMA is in need of renting an empty building for a three month period that they can use for office use seven days a week from 8-6 each day while in Ville Platte.