SANTA
CLARA COUNTY VETERANS EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE.
MAY IS VETERANS APPRECIATION MONTH
YOU ARE CORDIALLY
INVITED
TO CELEBRATE
OUR LOCAL
MILITARY VETERANS.
PLEASE JOIN
US
FRIDAY, MAY 12,
2006
11 AM TO 1 PM
at the
AMERICAN LEGION
POST 318
1504 MINNESOTA
AVENUE
SAN JOSE, CA. 95125
CONTACT: JUANITA MORALES-EURESTI
SAN JOSE VET CENTER (408)993-0729
FREE ADMISSION.
INCLUDES A RAFFLE AND COMMENDATIONS.
THIS EVENT IS
SPONSORED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,
EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPT.,
(STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
SANTA CLARA COUNTY
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE.
THIS EVENT IS TO
HONOR OUR VETERANS WHOSE COURAGEOUS SERVICE HAS PRESERVED OUR FREEDOM.
Officers for 2006
Chairman - Randy Richmond
Vice Chair - Eugene Casanova
Secretary
- Ken Schieck
Treasurer
- Rena Estes
Chaplain
- Ralph Curtis
The regularly scheduled meetings of the Veterans
Employment Committee of Santa Clara County (VECSC) are held at 7 P.M. on
the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Campbell E.D.D. One Stop
office located at 2450 S. Bascom Ave. Campbell. All interested parties are
invited and encouraged to attend; if you would like to get in-volved with
some great folks who do some very worthwhile things for veterans in this
area, come by and pay us a visit.
The Veterans Employment Committee of Santa Clara
County will award at least one veteran a $1000 scholarship to further
their education; established in 1997, the Bill Estes Memorial Scholarship
is named for one of our past chairs, a retired Navy veteran and a great
advocate of services for veterans. We will also have the opportunity to
award a $500 scholarship to youth who will be attending college or
vocation-al school; established in 2000, the Ron Corbal Memorial Youth
Scholarship is named for an Army veteran who worked as a Veterans Program
manager in the state Employment Development Department and also attended
the National Veterans Training Institute in Denver. The May is Veterans
Appreciation Month Walk-a-Thon is the venue for these fund-raising
efforts.
VETERAN
SCHOLARSHIP FORM
6th
annual Walk-a-Thon
T
he
Santa Clara County Veterans Employment Committee is sponsoring its 6th
annual Walk-a-Thon on Saturday, May 6, 2006 starting at the Vasona
Campbell Trail near the Pruneyard in Campbell and ending at Vasona Park in
Los Gatos. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., the walk commences at 9:00
a.m. and ends at 1:00 p.m. Walk to commence every 30 minutes with last
start time at 12:30 p.m. Registration fee is $10.
The purposes of the event are as follows:
To recognize veterans for VETERANS
APPRECIATION MONTH
Donations will go toward:
The Bill Estes Memorial Veterans
Scholarship Fund;
Employment, retention and advancement
services for veterans;
The Ron Corbal Youth Scholarship for youth
in the community for those who are in school or will attend in the
fall.
CO-SPONSORS: Fleet Reserve Association, Branch
101
VFW 3928 Auxiliary
American Legion Post 564 Amvets Post 6
International Association of Workforce
Professionals
FOR MORE INFORMATION and pledge sheets: please
call:
Randy Richmond, 408/294-4714
Ken Schieck, 408/369-3619
Dave Gordon, 831/636-5192
Kathy Corbal 408/274-9460
S.C.C.V.E.C.
HISTORY and MISSION.
The
Santa Clara County Veterans Employment Committee consists
of representatives
from many local area Veterans Service Organizations.
The mission of the
VEC is to promote the employment of Veterans within this county, to assist
local employers in recruiting
qualified Vets to fill their job openings, to provide employment-related assistance
services to needy job-seeking Veterans and to assist local EDD field offices
in their efforts to facilitate the employment of all Veterans.
Our VEC, formed in 1960, is one of the oldest in California and has
always
been a leading innovator among VEC’s in developing new methods of providing assistance to
job-seeking Veterans. Veteran
Service Organizations which are actively represented
within our VEC include Air
Force Sergeants Association (AFSA), American Legion (AL), Disabled
American Veterans (DAV),
AMVETS,
Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), Marine Corps League (MCL), the
Military Order of the Purple
Heart (MOPH), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW),
Vietnam
Veterans of America (VVA), United Veterans Council (UVC).
Personnel
representing the County Veterans Service Office (CVSO) and the Next
Step
Center (NSC), and local EDD
Vet Reps (DVOPs and LVERs) are also active
members
of our Committee. The
Committee is a chartered, all-volunteer and strictly
non-profit organization. The Committee has planned, organized and
produced
fourteen successful annual Veterans Job Fairs, held each spring in San
Jose,
since 1986. Ours is the only VEC in California which consistently
generates
sufficient financial resources to support an annual cash scholarship
to
assist local Veterans with their educational needs (see related
scholarship
article
elsewhere on this website). Regular
meetings are held at the San Jose
(Campbell)
EDD office the third Tuesday of each month.
Anyone interested
in
Veteran employment is always welcome and is encouraged to attend and take
part. Our monthly meetings
begin at 7:00 pm at the EDD office, 2450 S.
Bascom
Ave., Campbell, CA 95008. For more information, please call any
of
the EDD Vet Reps listed below:
|
CAMPBELL |
| Ken
Schieck |
(408)
369-3619 |
| Robert
Rambeau |
(408)
369-3648 |
|
Blanca Pico |
(408)
369-3651 |
|
Cameron Linzey |
(408) 369-3692
|
|
GILROY/HOLLISTER |
|
Dave Gordon
|
(408) 636-5192
|
|
SUNNYVALE |
|
Eugene Hollomon |
(408) 774-5411 |
|
Jose Villalvazo |
(408) 774-2384 |
| Levert
Traveler |
(408) 774-5415
|
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