{"id":243887,"date":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/hillcrest-business-association-seeks-new-board-members\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T07:00:00","slug":"hillcrest-business-association-seeks-new-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/hillcrest-business-association-seeks-new-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillcrest Business Association seeks new board members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Jessica Hudgins
\nReportero SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hillcrest<\/a>
Benjam\u00edn Nicholls<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Hillcrest Business Association is holding its 2011-2012 board elections at the non-profit organization\u2019s annual meeting on Oct. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Joyce Beers Community Center in the Uptown Shopping Center. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to balance our board and represent all the different facets of the community,\u201d said HBA Executive Director Benjamin Nicholls. <\/p>\n

The current board consists of numerous restaurateurs and small retailers but is lacking in other areas, he said, so volunteers from the banking, medical, media and real estate industries are invited to run for the board. The HBA is also looking for a representative from the commercial retail industry. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a number of large grocery stores and drug stores [in Hillcrest],\u201d Nicholls explained, \u201cSo it would be great to have somebody from Whole Foods or Trader Joe\u2019s or Ralphs join the board because they have a particular perspective.\u201d <\/p>\n

As the oldest continuous running business association in San Diego, the HBA will celebrate it\u2019s 90th birthday in 2011 and Nicholls said he hopes they can continue providing the services that make Hillcrest a desirable neighborhood. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of things that you would imagine the city would do,\u201d Nicholls said, explaining that the organization promotes, beautifies and advocates for the neighborhood by providing trash clean-up, tree cutting and the community activities familiar to neighbors such as Cityfest, Taste of Hillcrest and the weekly Farmers Market. <\/p>\n

A new effort for the HBA is bringing more attention to the eastern side of the neighborhood. For instance, some board members are working on creating an additional Hillcrest sign so there would be an overhead sign on both ends of the neighborhood, while others are talking about planning a new street fair similar to Cityfest for that side of Hillcrest. <\/p>\n

Nicholls wants businesspeople on the board who want to work on things they are passionate about, whether it\u2019s creating something new or solving old problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a problem in the neighborhood with your business and you think you know how to solve it, then join the board and let\u2019s solve it. Pretty much every project we have worked on over the years has come from community ideas,\u201d Nicholls said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any project or any problem in Hillcrest that we can\u2019t solve by finding the ideas in the community. All the answers are there. We just have to get people to tell us what they are.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nominations for the board must be received by Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. at the HBA office, 3737 Fifth Ave. For more information, go to hillcrestbusinessassociation.com<\/a> or call 299-3330.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jessica Hudgins SDUN Reporter The Hillcrest Business Association is holding its 2011-2012 board elections at the non-profit organization\u2019s annual meeting on Oct. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Joyce Beers Community Center in the Uptown Shopping Center. \u201cWe try to balance our board and represent all the different facets of the community,\u201d said HBA […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1317,"featured_media":243886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Hillcrest Business Association seeks new board members","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}