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Executive director of the Pioneer center Robert G. Lambourn and business secretary Patty Christopher are shown in a moment of levity during a busy day. -r-STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYLORD This is the production area of the Pioneer center's vocational rehabilitation facility. According to Robert Lambourn, executive director of the center, the production area was designed to replicate a factory setting as closely as possible. The main goal of the program is to train and place clients in the competitive labor market. (Continued from page 1) Adult Rehabilitation Pioneer center production supervisor Joy Landre is shown in conference with one of the center's clients. This man was working on the production .line salvaging and recycling electrical parts. -jnr^Uuu.i.; ; ; . ^ • ' • ; i -T..' . .. ; . .: . - production line were sorting, stapling and packaging medical supplies. In knother area, a couple more people were working on salvaging diodes from old transformers for an. area electronics firm. The worker would dip the diode into a ^solder pot to remove excess solder and it would then be straightened and checked. Clients in another part of the work area were involved in packaging the finished products where they did everything from making up the cardboard boxes to shrinking plastic around stacks of computer cards. In addition to some of the projects mentioned above, workers at the center were also assembling ink pens and filling envelopes. "The lifeblood of the rehabilitation program is sub-contracted work from industry," Lambourn said. "We have a 'contract procurement' person whose only job is to find work for our clients." Lambourn said that once the job is located, the center must submit a bid. If the bid is accepted, the work then goes out onto the floor. "The job must be both economically feasible for us and appropriate for the client," Lambourn ex­ plained. He admitted that from time to time it is difficult to find work for the clients of the center. "In a down market, companies will take the jobs they might normally con­ tract out to us back into their shops," Lambourn said. For the "lower func­ tioning" clients of the Pioneer center, the rehabilitation program offers the type of work that will introduce the individual to the concept of work. "We do more artsy-craftsy types of things here," Lambourn commented. "If these people become skilled enough, we move utoan up to the production line. Pioneer staff member Sharon Ellicson stops to see how one of the center's clients is doing. This person is weighing stacks of computer cards to insure a correct count. The cards will lata* be packaged in plastic and returned to the parent company. One of the center's clients b working at the "shrink wrap" machine. 8he is heat sealing a box with 125 tabes from a medical supply firm. The machine Is also used to shrink the plastic tightly around the bundles of computer cards. £