County leaders announced Wednesday that employees in schools, education and childcare; non-medical emergency responders and workers in the food and agriculture.
I can say honestly the program saved my life, said Jamel Davis, who through Homework San Diego is now an apprentice with a local union. Without Homework I would be lost, back in a gang, back in prison.
Second-year apprentice Ed Wallace was living in a halfway house after getting out of prison when he met Shanley and the Homework family. There s a book that I read, As a Man Thinketh and he said that man is eager to improve his circumstances but not to improve himself, therefore he remains bound, explained Wallace. So everybody is trying to improve themselves, but when you come home with zero that’s enhanced more so.. you are hungry, you are eager. Homework gives you a pathway.
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The folks at Hobie, who are aware that the pandemic has hit local employers hard, announced Wednesday that they are looking to hire 65 employees across all shifts for entry-level positions. D
ownload our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get San Diego’s latest First Alert Weather and breaking news. Hobie is short for Hobie Alter, who shaped his first surfboard in his parents garage more than 70 years ago. Before long. he opened what the company describes as Southern California’s first surf shop, in Dana Point. By the late 60s, Alter had invented and lent his name to the famous Hobie Cat, a revolutionary lightweight twin-hulled catamaran.
Hobie is short for Hobie Alter, who shaped his first surfboard in his parents garage more than 70 years ago. Before long. he opened what the company describes as Southern California’s first surf shop, in Dana Point. By the late 60s, Alter had invented and lent his name to the famous Hobie Cat, a revolutionary lightweight twin-hulled catamaran. NBC 7 s Llarisa Abreu reports from Ocean Beach where the waves attracted onlookers and thrill seekers alike.
Before long the company was churning out kayaks, skateboards, hats, everything a surf lifestyle could serve up. Company officials said Wednesday in a news release that the pandemic has spiked interest in many of their outdoor products including pedal boards, surfboard and sailboats all of which are COVID-unfriendly in the SoCal sunshine.
This second dose is all that stands between Nancy and Michael holding their loved ones again.
“We haven’t touched our grandchildren in almost a year,” Michael said.
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So, when the couple learned that tens of thousands of vaccine doses in San Diego County are administered to people living outside of the county, they said they were both feeling surprised and frustrated.
“How did that happen?” Michael asked. “Where was the breakdown in the system?”
NBC 7 Investigates found 23,249 people who received both vaccine doses in San Diego County live outside of the county’s jurisdiction. According to vaccination figures released on Wednesday, the county reported that people living outside of the county made up 4% of fully vaccinated individuals.