Decades of education, opportunity and community service are being recognized through a recent proclamation honoring the Excelsior Springs Job Corps Center’s 60th anniversary.

Mayor Sonya Morgan announced the proclamation during a recent city council meeting, explaining she would read it at the center’s anniversary celebration rather than during the meeting. The proclamation is also intended to be included in the center’s 60th anniversary time capsule.

The proclamation recognizes the center’s history of helping young people pursue their goals through education, career training and opportunities to develop leadership skills and confidence.

It highlights the center’s distinction as the only Job Corps center in the nation to offer a Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program and the first to organize a Hope Squad peer-topeer suicide prevention program.

The programs are recognized for providing students with opportunities to develop leadership, discipline, responsibility and a spirit …