{"id":183,"date":"2020-08-20T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=183"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:07:15","slug":"studying-small-businesses-in-astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2020\/08\/20\/studying-small-businesses-in-astoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying small businesses in Astoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, my name is Angeleen (Leen) Somoza. I\u2019m 21 years old and I have two younger identical twin siblings: Happy and Shai. We live with my mom in Astoria, Oregon, and I\u2019m doing my summer internship at the Oregon State University Extension Service office in Clatsop County. I\u2019m currently finishing my associate degree, with a major in biology, at Clatsop Community College. I\u2019m very excited and enthused to have this opportunity to work with OSU Extension.<\/p>\n

\"Angeleen<\/p>\n

My favorite subjects include anthropology, biology, mathematics, psychology, sociology and religious philosophy. I aspire to be research biologist, but I also just crave experiences and to try everything. I just want to learn from my surroundings. I enjoy knowledge and structure.<\/p>\n

My impression of Extension in Clatsop County before I started was that it was in a small office in a big building with programs such as Master Gardeners, 4-H, and fisheries. It was where I applied \u2013 and won \u2013 a Master Gardener\u2019s scholarship in my senior year of high school in 2017.<\/p>\n

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View of Astoria and the mouth of the Columbia River.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

In my Extension internship, I\u2019ve been working with Lindsay Davis, administrative office manager and local liaison for Clatsop County Extension. I\u2019ve been doing case studies on small businesses in Astoria from a psychological and sociological aspect. I then create social media posts, blogs and other things they need to communicate to other businesses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve become a social media \u201cconsultant\u201d for OSU Extension in Clatson County. I meet with Joyce Senior Angulo, who works in Extension\u2019s \u00a0Family and Community Heath and SNAP-Ed programs, the Latinx\/Latino Club at Clatsop Community College, and may other things. Joyce has me being a fly on the wall, so to speak, during the Latinx meetings on Mondays and she\u2019s available whenever I have questions and concerns. \"Finnware\"<\/p>\n

At the same time, I\u2019m working with Lindsay with two small businesses in Astoria \u2013 Finn Ware and Forsythea. We recently had our assessment needs meetings with both businesses \u00a0and we\u2019re planning to do a few different things in social media case studies.<\/p>\n

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In the short time of working with Extension, I have felt that doing one\u2019s research is extremely import to the Extension office. The research they\u2019re doing is impacting the community in many ways that we as the residents are not aware of \u2013 even though most of us participate in the activities that Extension offers, such as the Clatsop County Fair, and many other events. It is very eye-opening as an Astorian and an Oregonian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, my name is Angeleen (Leen) Somoza. I\u2019m 21 years old and I have two younger identical twin siblings: Happy and Shai. We live with my mom in Astoria, Oregon, and I\u2019m doing my summer internship at the Oregon State University Extension Service office in Clatsop County. I\u2019m currently finishing my associate degree, with a… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17,51,50],"tags":[52,7,54,53],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clatsop-county","category-oregon-coast","category-small-business-development","category-social-media","tag-clatsop-county","tag-oregon-coast","tag-small-business-development","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}