{"id":4763,"date":"2022-01-20T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:30:35","slug":"palomar-made-it-possible-to-give-back-to-my-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/palomar-made-it-possible-to-give-back-to-my-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Palomar Made It Possible to Give Back to My Community\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS \u2014 Born and raised in Valley Center, Amanda Yates came to Palomar College in 2019 as a Business major and cheerleader with hopes of staying close to her family\u2019s roots in rural North County.<\/p>\n<p>She took advantage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarpromise\/\">Palomar Promise<\/a>, which offers up to two years of free tuition, textbooks and other support to first-time college students.<\/p>\n<p>Now she is poised to graduate in May 2022. Yates, 20, recently reflected on her time at Palomar and a lifetime of experiences in the region that led to her decision to study business.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, when she was a little girl, her family\u2019s home near Valley Center High School burned in the Paradise Fire. In the process of recovering and rebuilding, her parents, Kevin and Wendy Yates, launched a nonprofit called <a href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbynature.org\/\">Nurtured by Nature<\/a>\u2014now a well-known \u201c\u200b\u200bswim-with-the-otters\u201d program\u2014and a family business, Animal Educators. Kevin Yates was a zookeeper at the San Diego Safari Park for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, in keeping with the theme, the Yates family purchased a piece of property in Pauma Valley and turned it into an event venue called Otter Valley. When it was time to enroll in her first classes at Palomar, Yates knew she wanted to stay in the area and contribute: &#8220;I decided I\u2019m going to continue with my family\u2019s business and focus on the event-planning side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a Palomar Comets cheerleader, Yates said she has had access to first-rate athletic counseling, as well as a supportive community on campus: \u201cYou\u2019re new, you\u2019re nervous, you don\u2019t know anyone\u2014but my cheer team, on the first day, some of the older girls were like, \u2018Do you need help finding your classes and your textbooks?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS \u2014 Born and raised in Valley Center, Amanda Yates came to Palomar College in 2019 as a Business major and cheerleader with hopes of staying close to her family\u2019s roots in rural North County. 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