PEORIA, Ill. – Four local people are the latest to graduate from the City’s “PeoriaCorps” program.
It’s a program through the national “AmeriCorps” initiative that, in this case, provides job training in areas of environmental beautification and stewardship, along with green landscaping.
“Anybody that’s done any community service work knows how rewarding it is,” said Amelia Ohlrogge, PeoriaCorps program coordinator, at a graduation ceremony Monday. “A lot of times, what you offer to the community is a lot less than what you get back from that experience,” something, Ohlrogge says, PeoriaCorps hopes to help change.
The latest group — known as a “cohort” — has been working on some important things regarding the city’s infrastructure.
“What they are doing is allowing the City of Peoria and its residents to facilitate cleaner drinking water,” said Ohlrogge. “By maintaining our green infrastructure installations, they are directly affecting and benefitting the citizens of Peoria through creating cleaner drinking water, by addressing our combined sewer overflow problem.”
This is the seventh graduation — or, “cohort” — in the city’s history, and recruiting is being done now for the eighth, slated to begin March 27th.
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