Bath County News-Outlook Your Hometown Newspaper September 9, 2009 • 7
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Coaches make a dif-
ference in the lives of
students everyday. Aca-
demic coaches, athletic
coaches, peer coaches,
• professional coaches
and many other forms of
coaches. Just who is a
coach? A coach is some-
one who teaches you
things, believes in you,
gives you constructive
criticism to help you learn
from your mistakes and a
coach is your friend. All
of us have had coaches
in our lives. Every one
of us needs a coach. We
need someone to be our
cheerleader. This is just
what the "Job Coach"
does for the students en-
rolled in the Community
Based Work Transition
Program (CBWTP). For
the past 25 years Bath
County High School has
been a part of this pro-
gram. The Job Coach
takes students enrolled
in the program to area
businesses for job shad-
owing/training through-
out their last two years
of high school. Students
can work a few days in
businesses each week to
get on the job training
that could be beneficial
to the student and their
employer. Students
would already have their
training, provided a job
becomes available in
your business, after their
graduation. You would
be hiring someone that
already knows the ropes
of how your business
runs. Not only is this
great for students, but is
a great partnership with
businesses in the com-
munity. Jodie Ratliff,
Job Coach says " There
are some tax advantag-
es for businesses who
join Bath County High
School as a partner with
the CBWTP." According
to Jodie, the CBWTP is
an educational program
of your high school pro-
vided within the com-
munity instead of the
classroom. The purpose
of the CBWTP is to as-
sist special needs and/or
students with a disabil-
ity in moving smoothly
from school to the work
setting by providing real
work experiences prior
to the students exiting
the school system. The
goals for this program is
to have the student work
for 2 years prior to grad-
uation. The students
will then figure out if
this job is what they are
interested in or not and
will learn how to meet
the expectations of their
employer and those that
they work with. It gives
them responsibilities,
experience and goals to
look forward to.
Coaches come and
coaches go. Students
come and students
go. What is important
is the time that they
sail across each others
paths. Lives have been
touched and lives have
been changed. Isn't
that what life is really
all about - touching and
changing lives? If you
or your business would
like to be a part of touch-
ing a changing the life
of one of our students,
and would like more
information on the tax
credit for your business,
please contact Jodie
Ratliff (Job Coach) or
Stephanie Little (Spe-
cial Education Director)
at the Bath Co. School
System.
Are weeds and brush
stealing your pasture
profits? Interested in
turning these money
robbers into valuable
resources? Stay tuned
and learn how.
What do leafy spurge,
yucca, cedar trees, and
musk thistle have in
common? Yes - they
all are plants we often
consider to be undesir-
able in our pastures. A
couple are even called
noxious weeds. And
they all are difficult
and expensive to spray
and kill. But they also
might be your most
valuable, untapped
resource. How? Well, weed, and all sorts Many could add five
leafy spurge, yucca, ce- of other plants cattle to ten goats. If these
dar trees, musk thistle, rarely eat. Eastern goats eat your weeds,
and many other weeds pastures have their you save money on her-
and brush are the pre- own problems with ce- bicides. Fewer weeds
ferred feed of goats, dars, thistles, buck- means more grass for
Now don't go turning brush, and other weeds,your cattle. And goat
off your radio. I know Spraying, digging, or kids sell for fifty to one
many of you would bulldozing often are hundred bucks apiece
never 'lower' yourself too expensive. But we during the November
to grazing goats. But need to do something through March holiday
maybe it's time we re- to save our pastures, season. Save money,
evaluate our bias and and goats eat these extra grass, and more
figure out how to best weeds. Set aside your income. Are you still
use our grazinglands, pride and think about too proud to even con-
Earlier droughts out this for a second. Mostsider using goats on
west have weakened grazing operations your land? (SOURCE:
grasses in many areas have enough weeds to Bruce Anderson, Ex-
and led to an explo- add one goat for every tension Forage Spe-
sion in yucca, western cow and not need to cialist, University of
ragweed, broom snake- reduce cow numbers. Nebraska).
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