Gary Job Corps security cadets assist with annual LBJ Birthday Bash

Gary Job Corps Security Cadets assisted with crowd and traffic control at LBJ Birthday Bash. This year’s event was held at Gemstone Palace in Kyle.

This year marked the 115th Birthday of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1964, President Johnson signed the Act that created the Job Corps Program as part of the War on Poverty and Great Society initiatives. The Gary Job Corps Center took its first enrollees on March 2, 1965 and became coed in 1975. Pictured are Congressman Greg Casar, Judge Ruben and Monica Becerra, Judge Linda Rodriguez, Judge Jo Anne Pardo, Constable David Peterson, Jon Leonard, Gary Job Corps Security Cadets Bojak Hubbard, Jose Paredas, Joshua Luna, Joshua Perez, Cuathemoc Perez, Captain Paul Tristan, CTT Supervisor Eugene Edokpa, and Business Engagement Liaison and Apprenticeship Coordinator Randolph Goodman.