MEDRANO QUITS AS CHAMBER CEO LEADER SOUGHT BY LATINO GROUP.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. -- Julian Julian or Julian the Apostate Latin Julianus Apostata orig. Flavius Claudius Julianus (born AD 331/332, Constantinople—died June 26/27, 363, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia) Roman emperor (361–363), noted scholar and military leader. Medrano, the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer, will leave his chamber post but continue running the chamber's entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. training classes. Chamber directors will take over some of Medrano's duties temporarily, and they said they hope to hire an interim CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. next month and have a permanent replacement selected about the first of the year. ``We are going to expand the programs and services we already have,'' chamber President Robert Alvarado said at a news conference announcing the change. A veteran business development adviser and consultant, Medrano had been hired under contract by the chamber in September 2002 to operate training classes for new business owners or people who wanted to open businesses. The chamber was formed in 1997 to help businesses affected by the growth of the Latino population in the Antelope Valley, aimed at businesses owned by both Latinos and non-Latinos. Medrano was asked to stay on as the chamber's director of operations and eventually its chief executive officer, establishing an office and getting Palmdale city funding. Medrano noted that he had expected to work for 3 1/2 or four months, but stayed on for four years. ``I will look back with pride on the accomplishments we have achieved,'' Medrano said. Medrano said he intends to work on various local economic development efforts, including a training program for local foster youths, as well as run the entreprenurial classes for the chamber. ``The Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's not going to get rid of me,'' he said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Outgoing Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CEO Julian Medrano, second from left, is with director Sandy Corrales-Eneix, president Robert Alvarado and Sylvia Duarte at a news conference in Palmdale on Tuesday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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