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Chamber seeking business award nominees by June 8
RB/4S DIGEST Mayor in RB Mayor Jerry Sanders will give an update on the state of the city at the 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 15 Conservative Order for Good Government luncheon. It will be at Bernardo Heights Country Club, 16066 Bernardo Heights Parkway in RB. Cost: free to COGG members, $20 for non-members. RSVP by Friday, May 11 at 858-676-6186 or cacrs@san. rr.com.
BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK
4S celebration All are welcome to the 4S Ranch-Del Sur Community Foundation’s fifth annual grants presentation ceremony. It will be 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, May 18 at the Del Sur Ranch House, 15445 Paseo Del Sur. Admission is free. RSVP with Sadie Brinton at sadieb@sdfoundation. org or 619-814-1381.
ARTISTS AT WORK — Gracie Horne, age 12, and her father, John Horne, working on their designs that received first-place in their respective divisions at the second annual Chalk It Up contest in Rancho Bernardo Community Park on Saturday. For other contest finalists, see the story on Page 6. See more photos at www.PomeradoNews.com. Photo by Beverley Brooks
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San Diego North Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for its annual business awards that will be presented next month. The nomination deadline is 5 p.m. June 8. Nominees must be chamber members in good standing. The business achievement awards are presented to local businesses and individuals known for their outstanding business practices and ethics. The annual awards are business, small business, non-profit organization, entrepreneur and business leader of the year; along with a community leader award and woman in business award. The 2012 visionary award will also be presented. Award criteria and descriptions are available on the chamber’s website at www.sdncc.com. This year there is also a new award — workplace wellness champion — that will recognize a small (two to 15 employees), medium (16 to 75 employees) and large (76-plus employees) company. For this honor, the nominees’ efforts See CHAMBER, Page 11
Foundation pushes corporate sponsorships in schools BY EMILY SORENSEN
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Searching for new revenue for the district, the Poway Unified School District Foundation on Tuesday presented the school board a few radical ideas involving the possible use of corporate sponsorships. The foundation has suggested that in addition to modifying current traditional fundraising,
schools look to entering into corporate sponsoring partnerships to generate much-needed revenue, such as with Sports Authority and Nike, or Pomerado Health. “The sky’s the limit for what we are willing to do,” said Fred Pierce of the PUSD Foundation. No decisions were made at the day-long board workshop, although there was much discussion between the foundation and the
school board members. The foundation spent $50,000 on consultants to figure out how the district could best generate more revenue for the schools. The motto of its new agenda is “building private support for public education,” using the practices of higher education and private K-12 schools as a model. While there isn’t any worr y about your child having to attend
Brand Name High, sample proposals of corporate sponsorships were presented to the board, including exclusive athletics partnerships, advertising on buses, and affinity partnerships with financial institutions. One of the examples Barry Siegel, one of the foundation’s consultants and father of a PUSD student, gave of a possible corporate See SCHOOLS, Page 11
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