AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - April 25, 2013 Inside to Host K-9 DinnerHawthorne PD Mascot “Scottie” This Issue Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................2 Food ......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings......2 Legals...............................6-7 Hawthorne Police Department is asking the community to join them on Thursday May 23, 2013 for the K-9 Community BBQ Dinner. It will be Scottie’s first dinner and he would love your support. Hope to see you there! Photo provided by Sgt. Chris Cognac, Hawthorne Police Department. Pets.......................................5 South Bay Workforce Investment Board Hosts Youth Job Fair Police Report......................2 By Cristian Vasquez and homeschooled high school student Nephtiry requirements in the past. For Mia Clark, a More than 700 youth and 60 companies Bailey said. “I think these events are very Gardena High School graduate and future El attended the Blueprint for Workplace Success important. We are in a recession and people Camino College student, the SBWIB has been Sports...................................3 Youth Job Fair hosted at Rogers Park on April need to make money–especially students. It is preparing her during the last three months 10. The event was sponsored by the South basically on us to get the economy back up via its Gardena One Stop Center. “They had Bay Workforce Investment Board and South and running. I think job fairs like this should me at their site and helped me with customer Bay One-Stop Business & Career Center and happen as much as possible.” service, they helped me dress better and they has been an opportunity for young people in Gardena High School junior Chris Hernandez helped me interact with other people,” Clark the area to engage with employers about job has been a part of similar events in the past said. “They also taught me other things like openings and adequate interviewing techniques and believes that he is better prepared for an clerical work skills that can help me find a as well as having proper resumes. interview with a potential employer than people job. It was like pre-training. These resources Weekend with a job or helping employers in the South I think I need more opportunities to apply themselves and considering that I am not inare very important for me because I actuallyneed a full-time job. Bills are not going to paywho have not gone through the programs thathe has experienced. “I think it was good, but“Anything that has to do with the workforce,we will help. If it is matching laid-off workers Forecast more appealing and apt for a job, that is what were more focused on job descriptions and to get a better job.”school, I need a job to do the things I needto do to help myself and get back into schooland engage in more thorough interviews,”Hernandez said. “The interviewers I was withBay by providing the workers that they needor putting people into training to make them the South Bay Workforce Investment Board I didn’t get asked a whole lot, but overall it Organizing the fair has never been easy, but does,” Executive Director South Bay Workforce was great. They companies need to give out the benefits have outweighed the challenges Friday “We have a special place in the hearts of the we already know that. It was good that they challenge, but we have a relationship withfor more than 14 years now. “It is always aapplications. They tell us to apply online andInvestment Board (SBWIB) Jan Vogel said. AM Clouds/ hope it would be. When the economy is weak, prepared, but I will keep attending more job fair, there are many people there for us,”these employers–and as you saw at the jobanswered our questions and I think I am prettyyouths, as the economy is not as strong as we PM Sun then you have a lot of different people vying fairs. I am pretty confident about getting a job.” Vogel said. “Plus, there are a number of young 64˚/57˚ When you have parents and grandparents the ages of 16 and 21 and were required to throughout the year on how to get a job andpeople that go through our training coursesFor students to attend, they had to be betweenfor those jobs traditionally filled by youths. working for low wages, it pushes the youth to be Blueprint for Workplace Success-certified. how to keep a job. These individuals were very the bottom of the barrel and it makes it much They also had to complete a Blueprint for well-prepared on how to go out and interview more difficult for them to get a job. We have Workplace Success Job Fair Workshop or be in order to obtain a job.” • Saturday hopefully in a productive manner in order to enrolled in a STEM academy.“It gives me more confidence to speak aboutto be able to keep our youth occupied and Sunny allow them to grow.” myself and sell myself. It also gives me the 69˚/58˚ 14 years and began when SBWIB, which in I would obtain information from the Internetopportunity to apply to more places becauseThis job fair has been organized for more than years past had a large summer youth program, or people, but that alone did not motivate me had federal funds cut. In an attempt to provide to follow through with the process of going an event to connect residents with jobs without online and applying,” Angelica Ceja, senior at Sunday the use of federal funds, the SBWIB has reached Gardena High School said. “My interview went out to students in Inglewood, Lawndale, El well. The person in charge of my interview Sunny Segundo, Hawthorne, Carson, Gardena and asked me a lot of questions and gave me 68˚/59˚ the Beach Cities. I am pretty confident I will get a call withininformation about what they do at their store.“I did not know what to expect, but it was great. There are a lot of companies that I the next three days.” A partial lunar eclipse will take place on April 25, 2013, want to apply to and I had a good overall The fair also helps people who are no longer the first of three lunar eclipses in 2013. experience,” Long Beach City College student in school but who have completed one of the
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