Summer job season
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including The Townshippers’ Association, Phelps Helps, Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre, The Lennoxville Youth Centre, Bishop’s University and Stanstead College, among many others.
Jean-françois Beaulieu of the Club Nautique du Petit Lac Magog underlined the value of the Canada Summer Jobs Program to organizations like his.
“The operation of the Club Nautique is supported by a battalion of volunteers,” Beaulieu said, “but summer after summer, on top of the work of those volunteers, we need a team of workers to help ignite passion in our young sailors.”
The club representative called the summer jobs program an “essential” part of the club’s success each year and underlined the fact that the youth who get involved through the jobs often stay involved in different ways over the years that follow.
Vincent Monneret, who came to the launch to represent the Youhou! summer camp in Ayer’s Cliff, underlined that point by talking about the impact that support from the Canada Summer Jobs Program has had on his life.
“When I was 15 years old I started working at a summer camp,” he said. “It was my first chance in a job, and nine years later I am still working in day camps, now in a coordination role.”
As the camp coordinator, Monneret reflected that it is now his turn to give those first chances to others and he said that he is happy to see the program continue to offer that chance.
Bibeau pointed out that in addition to continuing the summer jobs program, the government has streamlined a number of aspects of it this year and has also broadened the category of people it applies to. Where in the past the program was specifically for student summer jobs, it is now possible for all youth 15 to 30 years of age to apply.
To consult the list of jobs available in the region this summer go to https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/youth