The Procter & Gamble Alexandria Manufacturing plant is hosting its WOW Community Event at the Randolph Riverfront Center Saturday. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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South Louisiana will go from a scorching work week to a wet weekend. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Procter and Gamble manufacturing plant in Alexandria is hosting a job fair Saturday at the Randolph Riverfront Center. P&G External Relations Senior Manager Kevin Hood says from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., prospective employees can meet the local plant team and enjoy the event with their families.
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The P&G Alexandria plant produces laundry products distributed across the country and is seeking professionals to support the operation and maintenance of production equipment. Hood says the plant is looking to hire 100 skilled mechanical and electrical technicians.
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Hood says qualified candidates won’t be hired on the spot but will have an opportunity to discuss pay, benefits and responsibilities. He says the plant will be actively hiring over the next year.
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We’re going to go from a scorcher of a work week to a wet weekend – at least in South Louisiana. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says a tropical system that’s working its way west along the Gulf Coast is bringing heavy rains and thunderstorms, and some areas experienced some of that last night.
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But Keim says before the storm system leaves the area, it’s going to dump a lot of rain.
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Keim says some low-lying areas could see some flooding.
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Keim says the good news is that this system has neither the time nor the conditions required to develop into a tropical cyclone. In fact, the National Hurricane Center only gives it a ten-percent chance of doing so.
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An update to a story we brought you earlier this week on Louisiana Radio Network. Earlier, the Trump administration released 28-million dollars in previously-withheld after-school grants for Louisiana. Now, the Department of Education says it’s going to release an additional 1.3-billion dollars. Michael Faulk, the executive director of the Louisiana School Superintendents Association, says that gets the state closer to the funding it had been expecting.
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Faulk says school districts have gone through a detailed application process to get that grant money restored.
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Faulk says while the bigger school districts will get more of the grant money, whatever money the smaller districts get will go a long way.
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Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser has been tapped to lead the newly-formed National Committee on Aerospace, Aviation and Defense. Nungesser says the formation of the committee was his idea.
Nungesser says Louisiana has a NASA facility, but the state could do so much more.
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Along with Nungesser, the committee is led by the lieutenant governors of Alabama, Wisconsin, Utah, Maryland and North Carolina. Nungesser says the aerospace industry represents the future of travel.
The committee will hold its first meeting October 20th in Salt Lake City, Utah.