AmeriCorps NCCC Team Now Focusing On Austin, PA

A nine-member AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team completed the first stage of its Potter County assignment and will report for duty at Austin in the coming week to work in the borough and at the Austin Dam Memorial Park. Nine NCCC members and a supervisor are in the area through June 24. An appreciation dinner will be held for the team on Friday evening, June 23, at the Ulysses Free Methodist Church. NCCC is a community service program for 18- to 24-year-olds. College students and other volunteers receive modest compensation as well as help with college expenses and/or student loan relief. Drawn from the models of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and the U.S. military, NCCC is built on the belief that civic responsibility is an inherent duty of all citizens. Each team member gets a small living allowance.