Career-minded individuals interested in learning the construction trade are being sought for the Milwaukee Christian Center’s “Adult Build” construction training program. Along with classroom training, the program provides participants with four to six months of hands-on construction experience, which includes building a new home.

Workers can also attain certificates in lead safe renovation, lead abatement and workplace safety, while earning a progressively increasing salary that starts at $8.50 an hour and peaks at $10 an hour.

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Applicants must be 24 years of age, below 300 percent of the federal poverty rate, have a high school diploma or GED and have a valid Wisconsin driver’s license or be able to obtain one.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply, according to the program flier.

For more information, call Tim Twaddle or Yolanda Espino at 414-643-7704 or bring a form of identification and a pay stub or tax forms to the Milwaukee Christian Center/ Neighborhood Improvement Project at 1223 S. 23rd St.

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Raised in a South Side neighborhood where he still lives, Edgar Mendez is the managing editor of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Mendez is a proud graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he double majored in journalism and sociology, and of Marquette University, where he earned a master’s degree in communication. He won a 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and 2014, 2017, and 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Awards for his reporting on taverns, marijuana law enforcement, and lead in water service lines. In 2008, he won a Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award for columns dealing with issues such as poverty, homelessness and racism. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media. He has also co-authored three articles published in scholarly journals.