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New G.M. at S. Lombardi, New Airport Views & Kudos to Trainer

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Compiled by Camas Frank

S. Lombardi & Associates, a San Luis Obispo-based marketing and advertising agency, recently won six American Advertising Awards (formerly The ADDY Awards) for the Coastal California area competition.   Brittany Hensley, account executive from S.L.&A., accepted the awards, which included three for Community Bank of Santa Maria. The newspaper ad, “Lending Oneself to Growth” and a TV campaign, “Santa Maria Style Banking” were recognized, as well as the SLA designed annual report titled, “A History of Opportunities,” which won in the collateral materials competition. The Cuesta College TV campaign, “That’s Why I’m a Cuesta College Student,” received an award, as did two radio commercials created by SL&A. For more information, call: Steve Lombardi at 544-9220. Continue reading New G.M. at S. Lombardi, New Airport Views & Kudos to Trainer

New Earth Superfoods

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Gunter Ternes grew up in Germany in a wealthy family and later went to school to study medicine. One day while driving on the autobahn, Ternes witnessed a horrific car accident. This was in a time before seat belts, and Ternes witnessed both the driver and passenger being flung from the car. Stopping to help, Ternes found the driver, a male, was dead. Turning Gareth new-earth-superfoods-logohis attention to the other passenger, a female; she grabbed him and asked, “My husband is he ok? Is he dead?” Even though his medical training had taught him to lie, Ternes couldn’t, and he informed the lady that her husband was indeed dead. Continue reading New Earth Superfoods

There Once Was a Girl in HR…

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By Betsey Nash, SPHR

The phone started ringing off the hook last month with business owners asking me to write their employee handbooks in time for them to include the new paid sick leave policy, going into effect July 1.
I love writing handbooks, so I said, “Yes, gladly. Let me prepare a document that reflects our company’s personality while laying out the legal and cultural guidelines with which you’ll conduct your employee relationships.” (OK, not in those exact words, but that’s what I meant.)
If your company emphasizes taking care of its customers, don’t just have a “customer service policy,” but weave your philosophy into every section of the handbook. The employee will see that it is fundamental to the entire business. Continue reading There Once Was a Girl in HR…

How Do You Force Yourself To Refocus?

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By Michael Gunther

After two weeks traveling overseas, I was continuing my European adventure and on my way to Greece. We arrived safely, but our luggage was nowhere to be found.
I chose to fly one of Europe’s many low cost carriers that, we discovered later, has a history of losing luggage. In one incident, a whole planeload of luggage never made it onto the plane. (I am not quite sure how that can happen.)
There we were, watching the luggage conveyor belt turn and squeak with an increasing feeling our luggage was lost somewhere between Lisbon, Portugal and Santorini, Greece. Continue reading How Do You Force Yourself To Refocus?

Sen. Ted Cruz Cruisin’ to Nipomo

My Approved PortraitsRepublican Presidential Candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will give a speech in San Luis Obispo County, organized by the Republican Party of SLO, at 9 a.m. Monday, June 22. Tickets are a minimum $25 donation per person and available online at: www.rpslo.org.
Cruz will speak at The Edwards Barn, 1095 Pomeroy St., Nipomo. Coffee and pastries provided. Cruz’ appearance is the first in the RPSLO’s Presidential Speaker Series. All of the growing Republican field of candidates have been invited to visit and speak here.
According to Wikipedia, Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, 44, was born in Calgary, Can., to a Cuban immigrant father and an American mother.
A Harvard Law grad, Cruz is a Constitutional lawyer who has written some 80 briefs to the Supreme Court, clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was the first Hispanic American to clerk for a chief justice.
Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, and as domestic policy adviser on the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000.
From 2004-09, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation as an adjunct professor in the University of Texas School of Law.
Senator Cruz is married to Heidi Nelson Cruz, who was born in San Luis Obispo and graduated from Valley View Adventist Academy in Arroyo Grande. The couple has two young daughters, Caroline and Catherine.