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stop, interesting camera video P. I. G. 2000 in the mentor program. How long have you been with this? We started four years ago, four years ago, four years. That's a long time. Just my stuff. I apologize. Yeah, yeah

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backgrounds. We invite you to take a closer look at Sonoma County in the nineties with your host Rich McGlinchey, how you doing everybody? Welcome to another edition of Sonoma County in the nineties. On this edition of our program, we're gonna be talking about the Sonoma County

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Private Industry Council, we're talking about their youth 2000 and their mentor programs. First we'll be talking to Dina Lash and then a little later we'll be talking to the mentors, terry Griffith of Exchange Bank and Sergeant Ernie Ola virus and the santa rosa Police department and

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then even later still will be talking to students one mora and melissa stevens and they will talk about the program used 2000. But before we start talking to Dina here about this. We like to call your attention to the artwork on our set today. Give you

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a little background about this. This is the work of pencil master Sherry Warburton. Now, Sherry is a lifelong santa rosen. She attended local schools now she studied art, but she's basically self taught. She has shown her work extensively throughout Sonoma County and she is rapidly gaining

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a reputation throughout the state of California for her work. She also accepts many private commissions for portraits. So if you would like to talk to her about her work or having something done called Sherry Warburton at 8360988 and thank you Sherry for sharing your work with

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us today. Now we get to my friend Dina Dina. How you doing? Good. Um what is your actual title? I'm the business liaison for the Sonoma County Private Industry Council, which really means that I get business people and employers involved in our programs right now. Uh,

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do you want to describe? Pick P. I see a little bit right, a lot of people understand what private industry council is, but the acronym confuses them. Sometimes Pick we are a job training office and we work with both adult populate an adult population and a

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youth population to provide career information and job information and job training. And today we're gonna be talking about the young people on our program. Youth 2000, our future, our future. What is Youth 2000? We started U. 2000 about four years ago. And really it's a program

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that operates in a variety of schools throughout Sonoma County to provide students with extra extra curriculum regarding jobs, career opportunities, things like that. And and a variety of schools. We actually go in and work with teachers or the contractors work with teachers to provide extra help

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in curriculum, academics and things like that to provide extra opportunities for the students. Well who actually participates in U. 2000 add to what you're saying. Okay the counselors that each of the schools that we work with identify students that they feel could benefit from you. 2000

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these are students that we call high potential and what that means is very often they have a lot of potential um academically and in the world of work but may not be taking advantage of their potential and we want to provide them the knowledge and information

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so that they can succeed and graduate from high school and go on into the world of work. Well this should follow them on their job opportunities associated with U. 2000. Yes. All of the students have the opportunity to work after school in the Santa Rosa Junior

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High Program. The students have the opportunity to work in a recycling program and computer work right on the campus and some of the high schools, the students will go out into the public and work in a variety of jobs and careers. You look like you really

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enjoy this right? You really have you been really wound up in this for? You said you've been doing the program for four years. Well I actually started the mentor program four years ago as a support byproduct or a support system to the U 2000 program but

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I know I've counted you for many times and what was so enthused about it and it has been successful for you. The other section of our program, the other people were talking about what is a mentor. We started the mentor program so that the students could

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develop a relationship with an adult role model and friend in the business world and basically that's what mentors are, there's someone to be a friend and a good listener without judgment for a student in one of our programs. Well I tell you to, we'll be talking

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to later Terry Griffith with the exchange bank and sergeant Ernie Oliveras at the Central Police department by the mentors that today. How many mentors do you have? We have 30 34 mentors at santa rosa junior high and then between nine and 12 mentors at some of

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the high schools throughout Sonoma County. Our largest program is at santa rosa Junior high. What's the responsibility of a mentor? Good question. We train our mentors to be a friend and a role model during the school year. In addition the mentors are responsible for speaking with

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the students by telephone once a week and the other responsibilities to participate in one monthly activity that we organize. If people wanted to become a mentor after watching our program today, how should they apply to become one? We start recruitment in the latter part of august

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for the mentor program and they can always call me at the pick office which is 5 to 3 33 100 get an application to fill out regarding mentoring and then you talk to them yourself. Yes. All mentors go through orientation and training. Okay. All right. The

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mentor program, I I can see the answer to this to begin with, but I think you're gonna hit the audience with this. How does the program actually benefit our community? Well, basically the students are exposed to the world of work and at the same time they're

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learning about responsibilities in the community and they're learning how other people operate in the world of work as well and also developing a sense of responsibility in their own lives because they have the opportunity to work as well, Santa Rosa jr High. We have 34 mentors

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at some of the high schools we have between 10 and 12. So you're looking at about 60 just in our program alone and these people are all donating their time. They're all volunteers and we don't do anything except provide a positive opportunity. I hope for them

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and the students. Okay, so much for that. That's very interesting and you've given us a good background now we're going to pause for just a moment and then when we come back we'll talk to Kerry Griffith and Sigourney sergeant Ernie Oliver's Central Police department and carry

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a role, Hannah helps boys change to fit life. Please give to Hanna boys center, Welcome back to this edition of Sonoma County in the nineties were talking about the U 2000 and mentor program of the Sonoma County Private Industry Council A moment ago, we talked a

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few moments ago we talked to Dean Lash and now we're going to talk to two of the mentors in this program and the left of your screen will be talking to sergeant Ernie Oliveira's the santa rosa Police department and terry Griffith of the exchange bank. Um

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we'll ask you a question about being a mentor or some of the questions I have here and then if he wants to add something by all means do so um The first question and either of you start, how did you hear about the mentor program? I

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heard about the mentor program through a fellow city employee who explained the program to me and it sounds like a great opportunity for me to get involved in something outside my normal work, interested you right there. Yes, it is. Terry. How about yourself? My employer promoted

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the program, Exchange Bank, They're very much a supporter of the program. We'll Exchange Bank has been taking part, must give them credit uh and we'll give it to the Police department credit but they have really taken part in a great many things here in the county

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and had taken the lead in that. Alright, uh we'll start with you and then you add to it. Why did you volunteer to become a mentor? I really like the concept of the program. I thought it was a great way to get involved in the community,

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make a difference with Children. Um You have one on one contact with the child and you can be there for them uh friendship, you can help them with school. Um It's just a really great way to be supportive of a child. I think we all know

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how important our our Children are to us and I also saw this as a tremendous opportunity for the police department as a member of the police department get involved and do something to the schools and individually was with some of the uh you in the community.

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Uh you know what you do in a sense of the word when you involve yourself in the mentor program is give a gold star. You might say the law enforcement too because the cop on the beat of many years ago was really a highly respected person.

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Police officers have had some real tough sledding in recent years. But to take part of this, I think really does you and the department a lot of yeah, I certainly commend you for that. Uh, and certainly needless to say to take the time from, from your

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job at the financial institution. You're both to be commended on this. Have either of you first hear, how long have you been involved in the mentor program? This is my 3rd year in the program. I'll come back to this, this is my second year in the

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mental program. Now I don't know if I have to understand, I didn't know the number, how many people are you working with? I just work with one person. One on one. Yeah. And okay. And the same. It's the same. It's great to be back to you

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for a moment. Every mentor works with a single individual, one on one at a time. Each of the mentors is assigned a student by gender. And when the mentors fill out an application, they put down their interests and activities and their personal lives and we try

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to match that with the same activities, interests of the student, often career based. What is your role as a mentor in your mind? I think my role as a mentor is to be a positive role model to my student and to possibly show her some opportunities

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that are available to her that maybe she wasn't aware of before in the community and business. I my my student is great, I have a really good time with Melissa, I really like her. She's wonderful, we have a good time together. That's great. I think first

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Officer is being a friend and secondly as being a positive role model for juan every time we meet and you you you're working with one young man with one. That's correct, Ok. And ah I like the looks on your face when you talk about this because

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it means you really do believe what you're saying, you're not just telling us what the program is all about. You really are involved in it. And I think that is the most important thing that you've helped bring about is to have people who are interested and

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who really take this to heart and otherwise kids are really very very, they may not always be academically brilliant but they're sure as hell are smart and they can spot a phony a mile off. What kind of activities have you participated in as a mentor? We've

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had a lot of different activities. We have gone out to the coast. We went out with Jesse Longacre who was a naturalist and we hunted for mushrooms. He showed us how to survive off the land if we were ever stranded. Yes, it was wonderful. We had

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a great time. We made tea from the plants we picked. Um we've done holiday gatherings where we, we just completed a uh kind of a buffet luncheon for christmas. Um We do career fairs, we have job shadowing where our student comes to work with us for

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a half a day or a day and then we turn around and we go to their school and we shadow them at school. So it's a real interesting. Yes, I haven't gone with melissa yet. I haven't gone with melissa yet, but we will be doing that.

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You're looking forward to that. Ernie, what kind of activity also got along on the mushroom hunts And I've made sure that they were the right kind of mushrooms that were hunting at something that's illegal. Some of the other activities that we've been involved in. Besides the

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nature hikes is I've also done the job shadowing. I've had students in one state in the past and juan this year. Got it right along with me on my, on my tour of duty if you will. Uh something was very enjoyable for him. Uh We've also

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been involved in job fairs where we've actually gone through um actual role playing of, of having a students apply for a job submit resumes and actually interviewed for different types of jobs. You both mentioned the word job shadowing, is that what you said? Is that the

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word? What do you mean by that? It means they come to work with you and they spend the day seeing really what it's like in the business community. You take them along to meetings you, um take them out in the community. In my job, I get

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to go out into the community and do some work um out for the bank. So last year I took my student with me and she basically spent the day with me and we, she tagged along to all my meetings and we had a really good time.

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I I would think that would be invaluable to the, to the young people, wouldn't it? I think it's quite impressed by that and I think it's just a world they're not aware of, it's nothing they've been exposed to before and it's a great way for them

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to see the real world. What's what's going to happen after high school, Here's one. What challenges have you been exposed to as a mentor? Okay, I think for me the biggest challenge is time, you know, I have a job, I'm working Melissa's in school. It's hard

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to find the time to get together outside of the scheduled activities for youth 2000. So I would have to say that's the biggest concern for me, and last year, concern for me was um parental support. The girl that I had, her mother was not real supportive

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of the program. And it made it hard. I think it's it's hard for some parents to realize that maybe their students or their child, their child could benefit from having another adult in their life Ernie your challenges you've experienced. I think the biggest challenge that I've

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faced is demystifying my role as a law enforcement officer and having them being comfortable and being around me, but it's it's been great taking them out to dinner while I'm working and seeing that I'm just, it's an irish person doing a job and it's, I think

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it's been the toughest thing. I mean, I don't mean to, but I'm going to be personal. Are you, do you have any Children? I have one child and I have two Children. Okay, so I think it's just one more little star for you that that makes

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it possible for you to reach? The kids may be better than someone who doesn't have, not that they wouldn't be willing and kind enough to, but okay, would the two of you recommend the mentor program to other adults? And if you would, why? Definitely it's a

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very rewarding, very personal, rewarding experience to be involved in something like this, and we all hear and read about uh problems involving Children and youths and this is a perfect opportunity to get involved at the time, commitment I think is minimal. Um, and if you're looking

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for something to get involved in, I think this is it, it's a perfect start. I definitely would recommend the program, I, you constantly hear people complaining or talking about the gang problem in Sonoma County or Children hanging out, getting in trouble. And I think this is

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a real proactive way to get involved on a one on one basis and make a difference. You know, a person's life and God knows we need enough of that young people have gotten, there's no such bad thing as bad kids, there's just a lot of bad

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circumstances, but so many of them have lost their way and that sort of thing and, and are not even aiming towards taking advantage of the potential potential they have and what you, people are doing it to. My way of thinking is saying, hey, you know, you

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do have an awful lot of potential, Let's work together for a while and see if we can't help bring it out or convention that that's true. Um, what would you add to what they're saying? We have about a minute here. Well, I would say that when

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we talk to mentors and our orientation, we always say that they're going to be working with a young person and learning about the life of a young person and I think all of our mentors would say that they get as much education as the education they

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provide for that young person as well. They learn about what it's like to be in school today as a young person and some of the challenges that these young people face as well, you know this is I will say this from from layman standpoint, I'm not

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familiar with the program or I wasn't until you introduced me to it, but this is a dynamic program. I mean it will eventually have a lot of dynamic results. Okay, I commend you too. Well we'll see you again. I know we're gonna pause this for a

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moment now and then we're gonna come back and we'll talk to two students involved juan mora and melissa Sivas and then we'll have Dina here to guide us to. But first this message as a teacher, IDa Daniel Dark helps Children develop their full potential through education

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and music. My mother often said education is the way up and out. It was for me and will be for my students, IDa Daniel Dark Excellence has many faces Welcome back to a interesting and fun program on Sonoma County in the nineties were talking about the

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Sonoma County Private Industry Councils Youth 2000, we talked about the mentor program earlier. First we talked to Deena last as you recall and then we talked to the mentors, two of the mentors, terry Griffiths of the exchange bank and sergeant Ernie Olivares of the santa rosa

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police department. Now we're gonna talk to two of the people for whom the program exists on the left of your screen is one morna and in the middle of the screen is melissa. I got it and over here to the right tina. Why are you here?

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I don't know. Dina has been our link with the program. In fact what is your title? Once again, I'm the business layers on but I coordinate and the mentor coordinator actually. So I recruit the mentors and set up the activities and things like that. I don't

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want to see a lot of time but she's been doing, he's been doing this for four years and has done. I know personally a very excellent job. Hi gang. How you doing? The leftist green is one morning and as I said, melissa and the question I

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asked you first of all, how old are you won? 14 14 and melissa 14 Goodyear, let's take that back in 1979 79 Goodyear vintage here you can see that. Where did the two of you go to school? One santa rosa Junior high. Generally junior high. My

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mother when it was over on Orchard street. Why did the two of you volunteer to be in the year 2000 program Melissa you want to start? I decided to be in it because I wanted to see what was like personally And and they said it would

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help me with my grade point average and stuff like that. And it's nice to have a friend to talk to when you need to? You know, you work with terry one same question to you. Um I wanted to being used 2000 to raise my grade point

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average and get better grades. I wasn't doing so good in eighth grade and now I stand in my grade point average. Higher, got better grades, forgive me. What was the last thing you said? I got better grades? Oh, I was just gonna ask you that. What

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was your grade point average last year? 1.67. 1.67 down a bit. What was your grade point average this year? 3.3 point one Oh no, you're up there melissa Same question. Last year there was one point five I think. I think that was 2.8. My congratulations. That's

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a real that is a real step up when your kids your age. I mean because when you've got them down like that to raise them, you really got to work a lot harder than if you had been able to keep them up to begin with? What

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kind of career? Well, you know, first I think I'll ask you, why did you did? Well, first one of this, what kind of career job information do you get in your 2000. What do you mean by that? Well, what kind of career job information are you

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getting from working with that? You're seeing what they do. But are you getting any other information that they help you like decide what you're going to do when you grow up and they get you ready for? Like how are you going to do it? And what

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how much school you need to go to? We did this thing called Jab O where they give you this packet and they tell you like what do you want to be to pick three things and then they tell you how much money you earn and how

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long you have to go to school and stuff like that. Yeah same thing. But um and so they get your mentor to um you pick out three of the um things you want to be in the job. Oh and get your mentor to see if they

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know any anybody that works in that job to get you to talk to him. What has what he has to do to get that job and stuff like that. I just start off with you. Why did you request a mentor? Um I wanted to see more

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out what kind of job he had and if I wanted when I grow up to be like him or something like that. I wanted to find out more information about jobs and stuff like that. Um I picked it because it's just nice to have someone around

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when you need to talk to him and it's nice to go places with them and they really help you a lot. She's terry is really a nice person. She understands me how I feel and you know, and we laugh, she takes me places. It's fun. Well

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I think it seems to me from talking to them first and now you they're good role models for the two of you. You seem to pick good mentors for yourselves and this is of course as well for the success of the program. If these two units

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are as successful as they obviously are, the program's going fine. What do you like about the mentor program? You kind of touched on that but add a little something to that. Um I don't know, it's exciting. We get to like she says we get to go

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on activities like to park or we have luncheons where everybody comes and we all eat, we all talk together sometimes. Even the mentors, no, the other your friends mentor and we go together and stuff like that. And and so if you have a problem you could

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talk to them all the time. If you have a problem, you could talk with them. We have, I think about a moment left here to Dina. What do you want to add to what their two young persons have said? Well I wanted to add to the

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fact that the students have the opportunity to work and both of these people work after school in projects. Want, what are you doing after school Mondays and Wednesdays? I do recycling and Tuesdays and Thursdays. I do computers, typing melissa. I just do one job. I used

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to do both. I like have a little sister, softer babysitter. So I do once Tuesdays and Thursdays. I do computers and they get paid. Listen, thank you both for being part of our program and Dina, thank you for arranging the whole thing. What about the phone

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number you want to go? 5 to 3 30. 300. Okay, thank you all and thank you terry and Sergeant Ernie Olivarez to ladies and gentlemen, we've been talking about the private industry councils Youth 2000 and mentor programs. Very, very important programs in Sonoma County and they

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are successful. My name is Richard, the program Sonoma County in the nineties. We'll be back with you next week with another member of the county government family or a lovely, wonderful successful program like you 2000 and the mentor program involved. Till then tonight. Good luck. Good

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help to each and every one of them