KELSEYVILLE
Kelseyville High School hosts College & Career event, connecting 400+ students to future opportunities
Kelseyville High School was buzzing with excitement as more than 400 students of all grades, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, participated in a College & Career Day. During the event, students had direct access to representatives from over 30 agencies, including universities, educational programs, skilled trades, healthcare, the military, law enforcement, local businesses, government agencies, and more. The event provided students with valuable insight into their future academic and career pathways, reinforcing the importance of post-secondary planning.
From four-year universities and community colleges to trade schools and industry professionals, attendees had the opportunity to explore a diverse range of career options. Hands-on demonstrations and one-on-one conversations helped students understand the real-world skills and education needed for their futures.
To encourage engagement, students were given passports to track their participation. Those who completed their passports by visiting multiple booths and interacting with professionals had the chance to win exciting prizes donated by local businesses, including hats, gift cards, Stanley tumblers, and Beats headphones. One student described the prizes as “fire”, with adults in attendance assuming that was a positive review.
Briana Davis, a senior at Kelseyville High School, shared her thoughts on the event, saying, “The event was pretty cool. I like that it had lots of options to meet with different careers like real estate, wineries, healthcare, not just colleges and military branches.”
Kelseyville High School teacher Daniel Conklin highlighted the event’s impact on students, stating, “It was great to see how excited all of my Life Skills and Personal Finance students were. Being able to speak with professionals about careers they are interested in, without having to step foot off campus, is a great opportunity for our students.”
A major thank you goes to Lake Event Design, whose generous donation of tables helped create an organized and welcoming space for students and professionals to connect.
Kelseyville High School’s College & Career Event was a success, with an incredible turnout and positive feedback from students, staff, and exhibitors alike. The school looks forward to continuing to provide students with hands-on opportunities to explore and prepare for their futures.
About Kelseyville High School
Kelseyville High School is a public high school serving students in Kelseyville Unified School District, providing a comprehensive education that prepares students for college, careers, and lifelong learning. The school is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, personal growth, and career readiness by offering diverse educational pathways, extracurricular activities, and community engagement opportunities.
For more information about future career events at Kelseyville High School, please contact Kelseyville High School at 707.279.4923.
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WASHINGTON
Padilla, Schiff, EPW Democrats slam Zeldin’s covert push to dismantle climate safeguards
Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.), along with all other Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), demanded answers about Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin’s secretive efforts to roll back the longstanding EPA endangerment finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health and welfare. The endangerment finding underpins greenhouse gas regulations, and repealing it would ignore scientific consensus while in effect gutting emissions standards for vehicles, power plants, airplanes, and more — which would increase harmful, toxic pollution.
During then-nominee Zeldin’s confirmation, he testified that he “strongly believe[s] we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come,” and that he was “someone who believes strongly that we should work with the scientists, leaving the science to the scientists.” But this week, it was revealed that he — behind the scenes and away from public scrutiny — has been urging the Trump Administration to rescind the evidence-based endangerment finding. The fact that greenhouse gases harm public health was scientific fact when the endangerment finding was issued in 2009, and 16 years later, the evidence has only gotten stronger and the looming economic harms more dangerous. Since Administrator Zeldin’s confirmation, he has also announced plans to carry out a politically motivated purge of scientists from EPA and has overseen an illegal funding freeze that is threatening to kill jobs and drive up energy costs nationwide.
“This key finding underpins EPA’s ability to regulate emissions from motor vehicles, which EPA also found in 2009 to ‘contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution that threatens public health and welfare,’ as well as other pollution-emitting sources. Without the finding, EPA cannot fulfill its core mission and legal obligation of ensuring clean air for the American people,” wrote the Senators.
“Your recommendation to strike down the Endangerment Finding appears to be part of a broader effort to dismantle environmental protections at the behest of fossil fuel interests. Reporting and previous investigations of the Senate Committee on the Budget indicate that oil industry lobbyists pre-drafted executive orders that would weaken climate regulations in anticipation of a second Trump Administration.”
Specifically, Zeldin recommended to the Office of Management and Budget that the EPA withdraw its 2009 finding under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act that “the current and projected concentrations of the six key well-mixed greenhouse gases … in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations” (the ‘Endangerment Finding’).
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