College Breaks Bread With Some Very Important Kids
When Golden West College welcomes hundreds of visiting VIPs today, the faculty and staff will serve a lunch suitable for the occasion: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Though they won’t be enrolling in college until the year 2009, thousands of kindergarten students are visiting community colleges across the county for KinderCaminata.
“A goal of his program is to get young people at an early age to be thinking about education in the future,” Kenneth D. Yglesias, Golden West’s interim president, said Thursday as he spread a mixture of peanut butter and jelly on bread slices.
“Here at Golden West, we expect about 1,700 to 2,000 kindergarten children,” Yglesias said. “I consider them very important visitors, so I’m glad to be here preparing sandwiches for them.”
Yglesias, wearing a large apron, stood at the head of an assembly line that put together more than 2,000 sandwiches.
KinderCaminata was introduced three years ago by Los Amigos, a citizens advocacy group. The program “shows that it’s never too soon to start reaching out to our future students,” said Brunilda Nunez-Cronk, director of Golden West’s Intercultural Center.
Participating community colleges will have shows and programs to entertain the kindergarten crew.
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