Free Commercial Painting Class for Low- and Moderate-Income Jersey City Residents Begins Soon
By Jon Whiten • Aug 27th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
As part of PPG Industries’ community outreach in Jersey City surrounding its cleanup of chromium-contaminated sites, it offers a professional paint-training school for Jersey City residents.
This fall’s class begins next month, and open houses for those interested begin this weekend. The free class is aimed at helping low- and moderate-income Jersey City residents obtain a skill — commercial painting — they can parlay into a decent-paying career. PPG offers a training certificate and job placement assistance at the completion of the course.
Since Ward F is where most of PPG’s chromium contamination sits, the company prefers Ward F residents for the course but anyone from Jersey City with a high school diploma or GED is allowed to apply.
Candidates will be interviewed on September 7-9, and the class runs for 16 Saturdays beginning September 18.
Anyone interested in applying should attend an open house: Saturday, August 28 from 10 am to 2 pm; Tuesday, August 31 from 4 to 8 pm; and Thursday, September 2 from 10 am to 2 pm. All open houses are at the Garfield Avenue Renewal Company, 334 Martin Luther King Drive, Jersey City. For more information, call 201-938-0909 or email info (at) pittsburghpaintschool.com.
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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