By Christopher South

WHITESBORO – Members of the Whitesboro Historic Preservation Project are trying to help young people prepare for the future through a new carpentry apprenticeship program, based in Whitesboro, that will help participants earn while they learn.

“This means real skills, real paychecks, benefits, and long-term union contracts, the foundation of stable, middle-class lives,” said Minister Elorm Ocansey, who established the program in partnership with the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters. “The whole point of this program is to build the labor force.”