Archive for May 2009
Can I get that bus wrapped to go?
Don’t you just love a good prank? I wonder if there’s something in the water or is a full moon approaching that there have been two funny school pranks within the week.
Over at Coventry Christian School in Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pa., someone wrapped a school bus in plastic wrap, giving a new meaning to takeout:
photo by Linda Doell
photo by Linda Doell
Didn’t the cops look up?
This has got to be one of the best senior high pranks I've seen in a while. The jokesters scrawled '09 across the roof of St. Pius X High School in Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pa. Can't imagine how long it took them to complete that. -- Photo by Linda Doell
Faces of the unemployed
The 40-something man pushed back his chair and stood up from the computer desk. “Just send it to e-mail, OK?” he asked the teen sitting beside him. The pair had been looking at job listings at a state-run career center. From my vantage point, dad brought help to navigate the Internet in his job search. Others using the center’s computers were having similar problems. Something so simple as clicking on a Web page link was beyond them.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in this country rose to 8.9 percent in April, with a total of 13.7 million jobless. In the last year, 6 million people have lost their jobs. The losses cut across all population segments, with blacks seeing the highest unemployment at 15 percent. So where will these people find jobs? The bureau said Friday the service provider sector is expected to see the most job growth through 2016. That’s health care providers like hospitals, business consultants and the academic community to name a few.
But those jobs will need the training behind them.
