"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" at MAGIC 106.7's 10th Annual Exceptional Women(C) Awards.Pop Icon For the British television series, see . For religious icons, see . A pop icon is a celebrity whose fame in pop culture constitutes a defining characteristic of a given society or era. Donny Osmond Donald Clark 'Donny' Osmond (born December 9 1957) is an American entertainer. He is a singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. He has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver and author. to Open Show Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. Winners Jackie DeShannon and Sophie B. Hawkins to be Accompanied by Award Winning Composer and Boston Pops Keyboardist Brad Hatfield BOSTON -- MAGIC 106.7 FM is pleased to announce details of the 10(th) Annual Exceptional Women Awards(c) presented by Home Goods. The event will take place on Friday, May 11th from noon- 2pm at the Westin/Copley Place in Boston. Beloved pop icon and television personality Donny Osmond will open the event by performing songs from his latest release, "Love Songs of the 70's." Pop icon and Grammy winner Jackie DeShannon, a 2001 Exceptional Women Lifetime Achievement honoree, will be also returning to the event to perform her big hit, "Put A Little Love in your Heart," the official theme for this year's event. In 1964, she was hand picked by the Beatles to open for them on their first American First American may refer to:
In addition, 2001 Exceptional Women Performing Arts Award winner and 2001 Grammy nominee Sophie B. Hawkins will sing her hit, "As I Lay Me Down," which is hailed as the longest running single in the history of any Billboard chart. Award winning composer and Boston Pops keyboardist Brad Hatfield will accompany the performers. Proceeds from the 10(th) Annual Exceptional Women Awards(c) will benefit the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. This Year's Honorees Include: Business Category: Roberta MacDonald As the Senior Vice President of Cabot Creamery The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is an American dairy marketing cooperative started in 1919 by farmers in Cabot, Vermont. The original plant had an investment of $3,700 in total, which was paid by 94 farmers in proportion to the number of cattle which each owned. of Vermont, MacDonald has taken the company from a small, farmer-owned dairy cooperative to an award-winning international phenomenon. Courage Category: Rosalie Gerut Rosalie Gerut learned about courage from her parents. She is the daughter of Holocaust survivors There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived and the creator of One by One, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. founded by the children of both survivors and members of the Nazi Regime. Communicator Category: Mary Richardson Mary Richardson (1889–1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Her most famous act of defiance occurred in 10 March 1914 when she entered the National Gallery, London and slashed the Rokeby Venus <ref Emmy winner Mary Richardson is one of Boston's favorite broadcasters and the co-host of WCVB-TV's Chronicle, the nation's longest running locally produced newsmagazine. Community Service Category: Raisa Carrasco-Velez Raisa Carrasco-Velez was only 17 when she came to America from the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. . She is the creator of PROJECT ADVANCE, a program at the Lawrence Boys & Girls Clubs Healthcare Category: Dr. Julie Silver In 2004, Dr. Julie Silver attended the Exceptional Women Awards(c) with a bald head. She is the author of After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger and is the creator of RESTORE at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's Framingham Outpatient Center. Trailblazer Category: Lesley Visser A reporter for CBS Sports, Lesley Visser is the first woman to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. She has made history as the only sportscaster to cover the Final Four, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Triple Crown, the Olympics, the US Open and the World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships ("Worlds") is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. . To date, Exceptional Women has won 25 local and national awards for excellence in women's programming, including a record breaking 11 Gracie Allen Awards from the American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT AWRT American Women in Radio and Television ). No other commercial radio station in the country has ever accomplished this. For more information or to schedule an interview with an honoree, artist, Candy O'Terry or Gay Vernon, please contact Heidi Raphael at hraphael@greatermedia.com or 782-348-8612. WMJX-FM is owned and operated by Greater Media Boston, a subsidiary of Greater Media, Inc., the parent company of 20 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Detroit, New Jersey and Philadelphia markets. It also owns a modern printing plant and a group of weekly newspapers in central New Jersey as well as several telecommunications towers located throughout the United States. |
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