ASSISTANCE GROUP HONORS VALLEY, SOUTHLAND VOLUNTEERS.Byline: Tracy Zaborac Daily News Staff Writer Some mothers tell their children that obeying the golden rule will pay off one day. Several volunteers from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and other parts of Southern California on Friday saw the fruit of their labors. They were honored by the Volunteer Center of the Assistance League of Southern California with the J.C. Penney Golden Rule Award for their outstanding efforts in improving the quality of life in their communities. The awards were presented at a luncheon at the Van Nuys Airtel Plaza. Each winner received a crystal, flame-shaped award and $1,000 donation for the nonprofit agency they represent. Winners included Bonny Herman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, and Rafer Johnson, Olympic gold medalist and chairman of the board for the California Special Olympics. Rebecca Dmytryk is founder of Wildlife Emergency Response in Malibu. Verdelle Gibson has volunteered for the Alzheimer's Adult Day Care Program at the Northeast Valley Multipurpose Senior Center since 1991. Verna Porter founded North Valley Caring Ministries, a program of the United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). of Sepulveda that feeds 75 to 125 homeless and low-income people three days a week. Linda Carruthers puts in 80 hours a month at the Pacoima Community Youth Culture Center. Hollie Day is program director for Tell Me a Story, an AmeriCorps program that provides volunteer tutors to pupils in early grades at L.A. and Glendale schools. LaVerne Simon tutors severely emotionally disturbed students at the Erikson Center of the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center. Mother and daughter Connie and Vickie Gilly are involved with special equestrian riding therapy. Astkhik Ayvatyan, a student at Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. . Henry Stern organizes students from Malibu High School Malibu High School (MHS) is a public secondary school in Malibu, California for middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12). It is one of three high schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, and consistently boasts the highest API and average SAT to work for Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity, nonprofit ecumenical Christian organization that enables low-income people to own affordable, livable housing. Headquartered in Americus, Ga., it was founded in 1976 by businessman Millard Fuller and his wife. . Ellen Tsai has been an active member of the San Fernando Valley Youth Council. In the group category, volunteers from the Stephen S. Wise Temple and Project Angel Food, which provides meals to men, women and children with AIDS and HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , received awards. |
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