Financial promoter – Advancing young entrepreneurship
The right speaker can transform an event, and two tri-county groups are working to harness the power of oratory to help nonprofit groups. Santa Barbara-based Catalyst offers a lecture series on financial literacy and entrepreneurship, targeting young professionals as its audience. Catalyst sells tickets to the events, and 100 percent of the ticket sales go Read More →
Taking it to the streets
After a career as a top executive at firms such as IBM and Cylink, Fernand Sarrat left the corporate world and decided in mid-2007 to start the Collaborative Communities Foundation to help young people stay out of trouble in Santa Barbara. “I’m from El Salvador and look what the gangs there have done,” Sarrat said Read More →
Trans fats aren
While public health officials say they are happy about a state crackdown on trans fats, a new law may mean some bread products will get a recipe overhaul. In the Tri-Counties, doughnuts are bearing the brunt of the burden, as the new measure requires that all oil, shortening or margarine containing these partially hydrogenated vegetable Read More →
Camarillo hospital opposed
Since the Ventura Youth Correction Facility in Camarillo was identified in June as a potential site for a new prison hospital facility by Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso, the community has been up in arms about the negative implications associated with the project. The Camarillo City Council was scheduled Aug. 27 to recommend authorization of Read More →
Tough economy leads to suits over jobs
From Westlake Village to Paso Robles, employment attorneys say they see a rise of 30 percent in legal claims of wrongful termination over the past year. “Because of tough economic times, we’re seeing employers doing reductions in force, trying to eliminate weaker employees,” said Jonathan Fraser Light, chairman of the employment and labor law group Read More →
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