February 16th, 2024

The photo of the week features Zero Waste at a Partner Event with BeautifySJ. They collected E-waste, mattresses, and tires. Glad to see them still smiling and working hard on the weekend!

For a chance to be featured on the photo of the week, please email your best pictures to social@sjcccs.org or share your team updates on Slack!

ZERO WASTE SATURDAY

BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT

Join us for the SJCC+CS Black History Event on February 29th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. This event will be filled with an immersion into pieces of art and delicious Caribbean food! Come support local artists and your fellow corpsmember's pieces of art. Hope to see you there!

If you are interested in showcasing your art, reach out to Ileana Trejo at 669-328-6173

BECOME A CALIFORNIA NATURALIST

A paid opportunity to learn and explore Santa Clara Valley! Through the utilization of lectures, assignments, chapter discussions, and in-person field trips, corpsmembers participate in hands-on and field-based activities. They focus on experiential learning and exploration of the Santa Clara Valley's natural resources to increase the knowledge and commitment to environmental stewardship. If you're interested in becoming a California Naturalist, you have one more week to sign up with the button below!

CORPSMEMBERS OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to Joshua Ordonez, Katie Flores, Adrian Maldonado, and Meranda Rouse for being awarded Corpsmember of the Month for January! 

CREW HIGHLIGHT

Kristen Williams from Grassroots Ecology wanted to highlight one of our crews. "Luis [Villalobos] and his crew were so awesome helping us complete our cotoneaster and woody debris removal (aka shaded fuel break) project at McClellan Ranch Preserve. We are so appreciative of all the hard work these past two days. I also want to shout out to Christian Orellana for doing a great job maneuvering the truck and chipper into a precarious spot and joining our team for the day." Keep up the great work!

NEW GRADUATES

This week we have five new graduates! Congratulations to Luis, Luis, Haidee, Melchor, and Sarah!

CORPSMEMBER PROMOTIONS

Zero Waste is proud to announce that our Corpsmembers Jamie Rodriguez, Luz Valenzuela, and Joseph (Jojo) Peralta have just earned their promotions to Level 2. The hard work and initiative they take to improve the workplace while pursuing their personal goals inspire us all to do better every day. We can't wait to see where their dreams take them! Please take a moment to congratulate them on this much-deserved promotion when you get a chance!

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