Saturday, August 18th, 2012
Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Adam Lennartz, left, and Austin Ebbing, center, go over a blueprint design with Coldwater Machine controller Nathan Schwieterman. Lennartz is a co-op employee and Ebbing is in an apprenticeship program at the company. Schwieterman hopes a new program - Hometown Opportunity - will provide a bridge between potential employees and area companies.

Related online story:
"There's nothing here for me."
A new initiative - Hometown Opportunity - is being launched to change the long-held misconception that dream careers aren't available in the Grand Lake area. [More]
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