High up in the Saratoga foothills, Richard Suarez Valdez is finding his future.
His chainsaw buzzes away, part of a project by Valdez's crew from the San Jose Conservation Corps is to clear out overgrown brush from a county park.'So, we're just trying to push it back from the road and make a fire break right here,' he said, stopping briefly.Valdez works at a fast pace. But it's not just this road through the mountains that is being cleared. With each new cut, his own path forward seems to be a little less tangled too.
'We try to find youth that are in need of that additional support in order for them to be successful,' said Jonathan Sarabia, who came through the program as a youth and now helps lead it.'We're here to develop their personal, their professional and their academic backgrounds so once they're done here, they can move on to a post-secondary education, meaning college or university.
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