Current JV Communities
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Alaska: Anchorage * Bethel * Juneau * Sitka
idaho: Boise
montana: Ashland * Billings * Hays * Missoula
oregon: Gresham * Portland
washington: Omak * Seattle * Spokane * Tacoma * Yakima
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Alaska
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Anchorage:
Ship Creek Anchorage was nowhere until 1915 when President Wilson designated it headquarters for the Alaska Railroad completed in 1920 to bring coal out from... read more
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Bethel:
Bethel is a Western Alaska "bush" town located on the open, treeless delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim, Alaska's two biggest rivers. At population 6,000 (68% Yup'ik Eskimo) Bethel... read more
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Juneau
This gold rush town (1880) has been Alaska's capital city since 1906 in spite of endless attempts to wrest the capital away to the north. Its population of 31,000 (with adjacent Douglas) includes... read more
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Sitka
Known first as She-it-ka by the Tlingit people and then as Novo Arkhangelsk by the Russians, this town on Baranof Island at the Gulf of Alaska was the capital of Russian America from... read more
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Idaho
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Boise
Until recently, Boise was a well-kept secret. No longer. Today it tops national surveys as the “Jewel of the West,” Best Place in USA for business and careers,” “One of the hottest tech cities... read more
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Montana
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Ashland
Ashland is a small town among semi-arid rolling hills and open plains near the Tongue River valley adjoining the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indian reservations in Southeastern Montana... read more
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Billings
Billings, with a population of 95,000, is Montana’s metropolis and magnet for the nearby Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations in southeastern Montana, where JVs served... read more
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Hays
Hays is a village (pop. 700) in north-central Montana on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, a grassland with predominantly Assiniboine and Gros Ventre people. The closest large town... read more
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Missoula
Recreational opportunities in Missoula are abundant and compliment the Montana life style. Missoula is rich in cultural attractions ranging from symphony, arts, live theatre, historical museums... read more
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Oregon
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Gresham
Gresham is situated between two of Oregon's premiere recreation areas, Mt. Hood and the Columbia River Gorge. Known as "the City of Music" because of its annual Jazz Festival offers... read more
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Portland
The largest city in Oregon with 535,000 people, the "City of Roses" is located on the banks of the Willamette River near its confluence with the Columbia, River of the West. Outdoor recreation... read more
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Washington
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Omak
Located in a distinctly rural, arid, Western locale, this is one of the remaining placements which directly inherit the tradition of Jesuits being invited to minister to Native American populations... read more
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Seattle
Washington's largest city (570,000) and the metropolis of the JVC: Northwest region, Seattle is a major Pacific port situated between Puget Sound and Lake Washington with the... read more
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Spokane
The largest city in eastern Washington, Spokane (195,000) is the "Capital of the Inland Empire" - a semi-arid region with an important agricultural economy. It is the home of the... read more
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Tacoma
With its population of 200,000, Tacoma is the 3rd largest city in Washington. One of the first inner-city placements JVC started in 1970, located on Puget Sound forty minutes south of Seattle ... read more
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Yakima
Yakima, jokingly referred to as the Palm Springs of Washington, is a small Western city of 81,000 nestled under large arid rolling hills which outsiders might call mountains. It has a... read more
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