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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Phillip Ball lost his job as director of personnel and training with United Mine Workers in Washington, D.C. when the union lost the election in 1982. Ball had bought his home in Rappahannock in 1981, and he said he was determined to do anything to stay in Rappahannock.
Before coming to Washington, D.C. in 1978, Ball had worked as a coal miner for about 12 years. As he began looking for work in 1982 he found that some prospective employers in the area were reluctant to hire him because of his union experience.
Ball attended a horseshoeing school in Martinsburg, and then he took a job ds a janitor with the Fauquier County school system. Then in early 1984, Ball’s wife read a newspaper story about 70001 in Warrenton, and Ball entered the program.
Warrenton 70001 is part of the nationwide employment training organization known as 70001 Ltd. The program was founded in 1969, and was reorganized as a private, non-profit corporation in 1976. 70001 Ltd. receives funds from the government and from corporations.
The majority of the people enrolled with 70001 are high school dropouts from the ages of 16 to 21. The program assists these people to earn their GED’s and to find employment. Since 1969, 70001 has placed over 35,000 disadvantaged youth into unsubsidized jobs. <
The program also offers help to
adults, ex-offenders and high school graduates. Participants in the program are not paid, and neither are the employers who hire program participants. 70001 is supported by private donors, the Department of Labor, approximately 92 members of Congress and corporations like General Electric apd
^Aetna Life and Casualty.
The Warrenton 70001 will be celebrating Its'second anniversary this month! and inf that time the program has expandedao include Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. During the last fiscal year, the program had 47 enrollees and 38 were placed in jobs.
The program that Ball went through involved taking classes in how to be at ease during interviews and how to approach jobs. “They would send us out to do mock interviews of people about their jobs just to have the interview experience,” said Ball. Ball was in classes with six to seven participants. Besides giving training in areas that the participants may need assistance in, 70001 also helps in locating employment opportunities and in making contacts with employers.
Through 70001, Ball found a job as manager of Mobile Wash Systems in the Gainesville area. The owner of the firm had called Warrenton 70001 to ask about any program participants that would be eligible for the job, and Ball was r^cofninended.
“The owner of the firm decided to take a chance oiime despite my union experience, and ll began work in the
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