(Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) The Nov. 22, 2016, file photo shows Jack Jones, left, culinary arts instructor at the Weber Basin Job Core in Ogden, helping Alondra Medina, Alejandro Pereez, Alan Hurtado and Seth Carroll. All were students in the Utah Restaurant Association's ProStart Culinary training program, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funding. The program has come under scrutiny for questionable spending by state auditors, but is fiercely defended by advocates.