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Job Fair 2007 - A Helping Hand
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at 11:09 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
One of my favorite parts of my job is event planning. It was always something I wanted to do, even when I was in J-school at the University of Kansas and I decided to take the news track instead of public relations. Who knew my work experience would lead me down that road anyway, and instead of parties and book signings, I would be planning events that would affect whole communities?
I love to be involved in the communities I live and work in. When I had a chance to help with the 26th Annual Fort Scott Area March Into Spring Home, Farm and Garden Show last March, I jumped at it. All of our hard work made the event a success! And it was such a great feeling. With every person that told me how great the event was and how it had improved, I knew it was well worth all of the hard work to bring people to Fort Scott, give the exhibitors exposure and raise money for the P.R.I.D.E. organization, which itself exists to give back to the community.
And now, I am in the midst of planning another event that has grown near to my heart in terms of its importance -- Job Fair 2007.
As an organization, when the Nevada Daily Mail/Fort Scott Tribune heard that O'Sullivan Industries in Lamar was closing and laying off approximately 700 people, I believe our hearts skipped a simultaneous beat. "That is so many people out of work," we thought. We had to do something.
In response, we teamed up with KNEM/KNMO Radio, The Lamar Democrat, First Christian Church of Nevada and Sauder Woodworking to host Job Fair 2007, not just for O'Sullivan employees, but for anyone from the surrounding area looking for a job. The fair is Saturday, June 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, 102 E. Austin (formerly Aldi's, the southeast corner of Cedar and Austin) in Nevada. There is a wide range of employers signed up from Vernon, Bourbon, Barton, Bates, Cedar and beyond. We are encouraging anyone from the surrounding area looking for a job to stop in, visit with employers and sign up for one of many door prizes, such as groceries, gas cards and free merchandise.
The fact that this event could make the difference to so many people makes all the difference to me in how I work on it. I want it to be the best it can be through my efforts. I want people to get the help they need.
Why? It's not to make me look good. Or to make the sponsors look good, as it has been said by some. We are serious when we say this is our community, and yours. We are all about it. And when part of our community, be it local, or regional, needs help, we are compelled to help in anyway we can. We can never, and will never, have the attitude that it isn't our problem. It is. It's everyone's, because it does affect all of us, directly. And you never know, the next person to need a helping hand could be you. So why not extend yours while you can to help someone else? Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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It is good to read that finally someone is writing and talking about our community and looking at it from a perspective that is bigger than the unannexed city limits of Fort Scott.
With so many people driving back and forth from all the little communities around here not only to work, but to shop as well it really is wonderful to have a job fair that includes potential employers from multi-communities.
Another thing people often fail to recognize is that there are many people with family and historical ties to all these communities and really feel like any or all of them are "home" to them.
I for example was born and raised in Fort Scott. My mother still lives in the first house my father and her ever purchased, 51 years ago. I also lived in Nevada twice, in 1974 to 1975, and then again from 1977 to 1983. I loved it there, and only moved because I was promoted in the company I worked for.
I live in Fulton now, because my business is agriculturally related, but my children and their husbands,wives and children live in Fort Scott. My wife is from Metz,my brother in law from Hume, and both have family in Nevada.
I could go on and on, and many readers could tell very similar stories.
It is really wonderful at times and in the end a regional co-op of communities can make this whole area stronger and more vibrant.
Due to the rain on Saturday, the road to Nevada from FT. Scott was closed.
Will they rescule the Job Fair?
Just to let you know, pfcorra, the job fair on Saturday went on as planned. I know this because I worked the fair for a little more than an hour, along with several other newspaper employees who worked the registration booths, and several other employers who manned their booths as well. And from what I'm told, the job fair was a success, with many people visiting, especially during the morning hours, from what I was told. How did I get to Nevada, you ask? Well, portions of Wall Street were closed, and Third Street under the bridge was closed, so what did I do? Well, I drove over to Sixth Street (which was open) and headed over to Broadway on the east side of town, and hit Wall Street there and followed Hwy. 54 on over to Nevada. By the way, I saw no flooding on Hwy. 54, just some swelling of the creek a couple miles east of Fort Scott, but no water on the highway. So, there were other ways to get to Nevada other than the seemingly more well-known route. So, to answer your question, I think the job fair was saved despite the flood conditions.