{"id":5105,"date":"2011-06-15T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2011-06-15T07:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:56:26","slug":"ventura-county-contractors-association-announces-2011-scholarship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/ventura-county-contractors-association-announces-2011-scholarship-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County Contractors Association announces 2011 scholarship recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5106\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/06-15-11-Scholarship-e1308149134745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5106\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/06-15-11-Scholarship-e1308149134745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left include: Fred Penney, VCCA director and 2011 scholarship committee chairperson; Francisco Cancinco, California Polytechnic at Pomona; Geoffrey Douglas, University of California at Santa Barbara; Benjamin Tunigold, Ventura Community College; Scott Raymond, Rio Mesa High School; Karina White, Colorado State University; Eric Pinuelas, Adolfo Camarillo High School; John Lopez; California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo; Chris Ponce, Nordhoff High School in Ojai; and Wayne Pendrey, VCCA director and member of the 2011 scholarship committee. Recipients not shown are: Jenna Collins, Penn State; Joshua Davis, Oaks Christian in Thousand Oaks; Kemper Whaley, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo; and Christopher Waechter, Foothill Technology High School in Ventura.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Twelve students receive scholarships to continue education in the construction industry<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Francisco Cancinco of California Polytechnic at Pomona;\u00a0Eric Pinuelas, Adolfo Camarillo High School and\u00a0John Lopez of California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo were among the 12 Ventura County students who received a total of\u00a0$6,775 through the\u00a02011 Ray Prueter Memorial Career in Construction Program presented by the\u00a0Ventura County Contractors Association. (VCCA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding assistance to young people who wish to enter the trades is a cornerstone of our organization to help perpetuate a new generation of construction professionals,\u201d Tommy Tatangelo,\u00a0president, stated in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth year VCCA membership has supported local students pursuing a career in the construction industry. Scholarships were financed through proceeds from the VCCA\u2019s\u00a0annual Ted Flesher Memorial Golf Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Besides\u00a0Cancinco,\u00a0Pinuelas and Lopez, recipients included\u00a0Geoffrey Douglas, University of California at Santa Barbara; Benjamin Tunigold, Ventura Community College; Scott Raymond, Rio Mesa High School; Karina White, Colorado State University; Kemper Whaley, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo; Chris Ponce, Nordhoff High School in Ojai; Jenna Collins, Penn State; Joshua Davis, Oaks Christian in Thousand Oaks; and Christopher Waechter, Foothill Technology High School in Ventura.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the students are currently in high school students and seven individuals are currently enrolled in college.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants were recommended by owners, partners, officers or employees of a local construction-oriented business for pursuing a construction-related career such as architecture, engineering, surveying, construction management or a building trade.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1946, the VCCA is a\u00a0non-profit membership association of qualified general contractors, subcontractors, building material suppliers and many other leading construction industry businesses, current membership encompasses more than 750 members. Visit\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.vccainc.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vccainc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.vccainc.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Twelve students receive scholarships to continue education in the construction industry Francisco Cancinco of California Polytechnic at Pomona;\u00a0Eric Pinuelas, Adolfo Camarillo High School and\u00a0John Lopez of California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo were among the 12 Ventura County students…<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/ventura-county-contractors-association-announces-2011-scholarship-recipients\/\">Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}