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Business Owners: 12th Graders at Clairemont High School are Seeking Internships Would your company or organization like to get connected to the up-and-coming bright minds of the future workforce? We are looking for companies and organizations who would like to host an intern from the Academy of Business and make a difference in a young life. The 12th grade students at Clairemont High School’s Academy of Business are qualified, motivated young people who are required to do field internships as part of their Regional Occupational Program (ROP) business class credit.We are looking to place 45 students in a meaningful internship in a professional work environment. Read on for some fast facts about the program and be sure to visit our Academy Internships Page www.aobt.net/internships-2
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More than Baseball: Padres Exec to Speak at St. Mark’s
Clairemont Community Planning Group Elections, March 17, 2015
by Karen Scanlon
Handsomely boyish in appearance, an aura of baseball enthusiasm ignites his shorter stature. San Diego Padres baseball executive,Alex Montoya, raises his left prosthetic arm and points beyond tiers of stadium seating toward dirt mounds where a baseball diamond should be.
Program Overview: Students are released from their afternoon class, two to three days a week, to apply their skills in a professional setting. Internships are ideally 4-10 afternoon hours per week during the months of March - May. Internships are typically unpaid, though paid internships are always welcome. Student Intern Qualifications: The Academy students have taken classes in business, computers, and communications. They have had especially extensive practice in financial planning, investment, and entrepreneurship. Students are also trained in typing skills, Microsoft applications (Excel,Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint), Google applications (Google searches, Google Drive, Google SEE Internships, page 16
Happy to see each other, Alex Montoya with his 3rd grade teacher, ‘Mrs. M’, Carole McMeekin.
“We keep our promise to the city that the Park won’t go dark when the team isn’t playing,” he says.“Other events happen here at Petco. Right now they’re setting up for a motorcycle race.” There is much more to Alex Montoya’s story SEE Padres Exec toSpeak, page 4
The Clairemont Community Planning Group, CCPG, will hold elections on March 17, 2015 for eight of its 16 seats on the Group. The CCPG is a non-paid volunteer committee and is the City-recognized citizens group that advises the Mayor, City Council and Planning Commission, City Staff and other governmental agencies on land use matters, specifically concerning development projects within the CCPG community boundaries and the preparation of, adoption of, implementation of, or amendment to, the General Plan or a land use plan that relates to the CCPG community boundaries. Members of the CCPG serve two-year terms with a limit of four consecutive terms of service in most cases. To be eligible to serve on the CCPG, a community member must: 1. Have attended two meetings of the CCPG within the last year (12 months, March through February); and 2. Own property within the community plan area, or 3. Be a resident whose primary address of residence is an address in the community planning area, or 4. Be the owner, operator, or designee of a local business at a non-residential real property address in the community planning area The CCPG meets the third Tuesday of every month (except December and August) at 6:30 p.m. at Cadman Elementary School in Bay Ho. In addition, there are several standing and ad hoc sub-committees of the CCPG that meet SEE Planning Group, page 10