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Hometown Jobs: Criminal Justice Program at Virginia Western Community College
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – There’s a huge need for criminal justice professionals across our hometowns.
One community college is offering programs to foster grow the next generation of professionals in police, courts or corrections.
“These are vital roles in our community, so we want to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be able to go out into those roles in the community,” said Jeff Dodson, Program Head.
In the Criminal Justice Program at Virginia Western Community College, they emphasize three important things.
“Professionalism, accountability, and integrity,” said Dodson.
He said to do that they have developed a program which encompasses all aspects of criminal justice.
“So criminal justice is so much deeper than just the police. You know, you can get into probation and parole. You can get into corrections. You can get into certain types of counseling, forensic science,” said Dodson.
For most students, it’s a passion and a need to want to make the community where they live in a better place.
“Everything that we do is basically around the community policing aspect of it. And so I really like to get the community engagement part of the criminal justice program,” said Aiden Likens, student.
“In that class, like it was just night and day because I was in that class and I was also a community engagement officer. I was able to just take like what I was learning and then like do it in the field each day and just treat people with respect and make them feel like we really truly care,” said Kala Gilbert, student.
The program offers hand on experience through the crime lab and partners with law enforcement in our hometowns to help them learn what it’s like on the job.
“We give instructions from basic law to search and seizure techniques to, like, the practical application of being in a career in law enforcement….I’ll be able to bridge the gap between understanding what the job is and then talking about the job, but make sure we facilitate a comfortable environment for future employment,” said Officer Nicholas Comas, police recruiter for Roanoke Police.
As well as internships.
“You don’t really know how to be a cop and what really goes into the day-to-day work until you actually see it firsthand,” said Brian Lee, police recruiter for Roanoke County Police.
“Offering internships for us allow us to help develop the next generation of law enforcement professionals,” said Sean Slusser, Captain for Salem Police.
If you would like to learn more about the program, click here.
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“I didn’t know I could go that fast,” Richard Delcid, the general manager of a Domino’s Pizza in Manassas, told WTOP.
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‘I didn’t know I could go that fast’: Virginia pizza maker breaks record
A general manager of a Domino’s Pizza in Manassas, Virginia, won the chain’s “World’s Fastest Pizza Maker” competition this month.
Richard Delcid prepared a pepperoni pizza, mushroom pizza and cheese pizza for the oven in 31.22 seconds.
“I didn’t know I could go that fast,” Delcid told WTOP.
“Eight seconds better than the previous record,” Robert Donner, one of the owners of the Domino’s on Centreville Road, said.
The competitors at the May 13 Las Vegas event came from Domino’s locations around the world, and Donner said the competition is about more than speed.
“They’re judged by weight, they’re judged by portion, and they’re judged on whether they’re sellable to a customer,” Donner said.
When Delcid first started working for Domino’s in 2012, he was a teenager. He was much slower then, he joked.
As with anything, practice makes perfect.
“We record ourselves during practices,” Delcid said. “We dissect videos, we look at body movement, hand movement, everything.”
Delcid was not alone in Vegas. Donner, who is part owner of more than 30 Domino’s Pizza locations in Virginia and Maryland, brought dozens of employees to the event.
Coming in second at the competition was another member of Donner’s team.
Joe Burr, who is known as “Domino Joe,” is the local director of training, and calls himself the Dan Marino of the Domino’s World’s Fastest Pizza Maker competition.
“I’ve won third place a couple times, I’ve won second place like three or four times,” Burr said. “So I’m like always a bridesmaid, but never a bride.”
Don’t let Burr’s jokes fool you — he has known Delcid for a long time and is very proud of him.
“I like to say it’s not the sculptor, it’s the clay. Richard is the best clay,” Burr said.
Along with a championship belt and a trophy, Delcid’s record‑breaking performance earned him $5,000 from Domino’s Pizza corporate, and his local bosses kicked in another $5,000.
Virginia
Netflix casting Central Virginia singles for “Love on the Spectrum” after Danville man joins show
DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) — Netflix is searching for singles in Central Virginia to appear on its documentary-style dating series “Love on the Spectrum,” after a Danville man was cast for an upcoming season and producers are now looking to find his match.
The series follows adults on the autism spectrum as they navigate dating.
Monica Karavanic, executive director of The Arc of Southside in Danville, said the person cast has ties to her organization.
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“This show has been loved by millions internationally and so for it to come to Danville is pretty awesome and we’re just really excited and hoping to make it work,” Karavanic said.
Casting is focused on singles ages 25 to 40, of any gender, who live near Danville or Lynchburg and would be interested in going on a date with a man on the spectrum. Producers say the time commitment could be as little as half a day.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Friday will be sunny and seasonably warm, with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s.
The pattern of cool nights and mild afternoons will continue through the weekend and through much of next week as upper-level flow continues to bring reinforcing mild and dry air out of eastern Canada.
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