Business Pros to Offer Students Insight on Working World During 7th Annual City-Sponsored Groundhog Shadow Day

More than 150 Duarte High School students will have the opportunity to spend a day learning about a variety of jobs and careers while they gain valuable insight into the working world, the 7th annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day slated for Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

The program is sponsored by the City of Duarte, Duarte’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth, the City of Hope, Southern California Edison and Duarte Unified School District.

Students will shadow adult mentors as they go about their normal work day in careers including banking, healthcare, politics, education, journalism, printing, real estate, automotive, retail, food industry and utilities, among others. Duarte City Hall, City of Hope, Royal Oaks Manor, Huntington Courts, Seidner Collision Centers, Jacobsen Development, Westminister Gardens, Duarte Chamber of Commerce, M. E. Sawyer Company, Duarte Unified School District, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles County Sheriff, , Assemblymember Anthony Portantino, Burrtec Waste Industries, Line X of Pasadena and Duarte Sheriff’s Substation are among numerous past business and industry participants.

Duarte’s Groundhog Job Shadow Day will kick off with an opening ceremony and breakfast for students and mentors at 7:30 a.m. at the Duarte Community Center. After spending the next several hours together on the job, students and mentors will return to the Community Center for a luncheon and a talk featuring a guest speaker.

For more information or to become a sponsoring worksite, call Duarte’s Promise at 626/357-7931, ext. 267.