Franklin appointed Vice President
Gilroy – Community Bank of Central California announced the appointment of Deanna Franklin as Vice President/Branch Manager of the Bank’s Gilroy office, 761 First St. She will be responsible for business development, relationship management and commercial lending for the area.
Born and raised in Gilroy, Franklin is a graduate of Gilroy High and continued her education at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, receiving a BS in Agricultural Business Finance. With 10 years of experience in banking, Franklin specializes in helping small businesses with all their banking needs from setting up business accounts to lending.
“We are very fortunate that Deanna is now part of our Community Bank team,” said Nick Ventimiglia, Chairman and CEO. “The bank’s philosophy has always been to hire local community residents.”
Franklin serves on the Board for GoKids and is a volunteer with the Gilroy Garlic Festival every year. She is married to David Franklin and her children attend Gilroy Unified schools. Her mother, Jody Canail-Ornellas, continues to work for the Gilroy High School’s Food Services Department.
Hairstylists raise ‘color’ bar in contest
Morgan Hill – Cherisse White, Artistic Director and Owner of Cherisse’s Hair Salon & Day Spa in Morgan Hill, placed second in a national contest sponsored by John Paul Mitchell Systems. White and her team (Sheena Pemberton, Designer Stylist; Gretchen Threadgill, Hair Stylist; Diana Stone and Jessica Bergstrom, Junior Stylists) were winners of the “Color Bar Contest” in the one-to-five chair salon category.
As second-place winners, White and her team will be acknowledged in two nationally distributed magazines, “Modern Salon” and “American Salon,” as well as in Paul Mitchell’s national publication entitled, “Cut N’ Dry.” The staff at Cherisse’s also won a highly desired color-related library of DVDs.
As the ultimate form of recognition and a grand finale to this honor, the entire team was presented to their peers as the contest’s second-place winners at the National Paul Mitchell Signature Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., this month.
DOL Web Site Helps Businesses Create Drug-Free Workplace Programs
Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor is encouraging employers to use its Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace Web site to help them establish drug-free workplace programs that protect worker safety and health, while improving productivity and bottom-line profits.
Of the nation‚s 16.6 million adult illicit drug users, 12.4 million (74.6 percent) work either full or part time, according to recently released results of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration‚s (SAMHSA) 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. In 2000, workers reporting past month drug use were more likely to have worked for more than three employers in a year, missed work more than two days in the past month and skipped work more than two days in the past month.
The Working Partners Web site features the Drug-Free Workplace Advisor, an interactive tool that helps employers build drug-free workplace policies and programs; the Substance Abuse Information Database, a repository of hundreds of documents related to workplace alcohol and drug abuse; information about substance abuse and how it affects employment; and directories of national, state and local resources and state laws that may assist employers.
The Working Partners Web site can be accessed at www.dol.gov/workingpartners.
