COMMUNITY NEWS CHATSWORTH RESIDENT EARNS NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD.

Chatsworth resident Kay Gordon has received the 19th annual Hadassah National Leadership Award, honoring members for their civic, educational and cultural work.

``Kay Gordon's past achievements have led to this well-deserved honor,'' said Marcia Gould, president of the Shirim ha Emek Group, Hadassah Southern California.

Gordon was president of the Shirim ha Emek Group for eight years, is on Hadassah's Northern Area Board, and has been instrumental in the success of numerous area projects.

With more than 1,000 chapters in the United States and Puerto Rico, Hadassah is the nation's largest Jewish women's organization.

Ivy Academia Charter in Woodland Hills won the Fine Arts Drama Award for the student production ``The Tempest'' at the California Student Media & Multimedia Festival, sponsored by the California School Library Association.

Hannah Nawroth received the award for Best Individual Performance. Other students sharing the drama award are: Jonah Schneider, Jenny Shinkar, Trevor Klaiman, Taylor Kuizin-Ingelson, Sara Sutherland, Morgan Sattler, Colin Nierenberg and Tara Leisen.

Cleveland High School received a $7,500 grant from the Academy Foundation's Institutional Grants Program for its summer film production workshops offering cinematography projects for students.

The foundation, the educational arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has distributed more than 350 grants to film-related efforts encouraging opportunities in film education and cultural programming.

For information,visit www.oscars.org/grants.

Bassett Elementary School in Van Nuys won a League of Women Voters' National Student/Parent Mock Election Award for a presentation that included debates and programs illustrating the electoral process.

``The students and teachers (of Bassett Elementary School) exemplify the definition of good citizenship,'' said Kay J. Maxwell, national president of LWV. ``Their dedication to civic education and political participation is an example of what the League strives for in communities across the nation.''

The San Fernando Valley branch of the American Association of University Women awarded more than a dozen $1,500 scholarships to San Fernando Valley students including: Ani Oganyan, Burbank, for University of California, Los Angeles; Shanna Javaheri, Taft, for UCLA; Krista Beckley, Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, for UC Berkeley; Ana Mejia, Sylmar, for UC Berkeley; Tanner Bennett, Burbank, for Cal Poly; Ulises Gonzalez, Reseda, for USC; Samantha Schwartz, Burbank, for University of San Francisco; Kristy Ku, Burbank, for California State University, Northridge; Xianjun Jiang, SOCES, for Stanford; Molly Jung, Cleveland, for UCLA; Erika Estrada, Monroe, for Cal Poly; Nicole Gil, Grant, for UCLA; Tina Liu, El Camino Real, for UC Berkeley; Ashley McClendon, Burbank, for Stanford; Rachel Pearson, Taft, for UC Irvine; Ruth Sepanian, North Hollywood, for CSUN; and Joanna Tripet-Diehl, Burroughs, for UC Davis.

Glendale Adventist Medical Center received top honors in patient, physician and employee satisfaction in the 2005 Professional Research Consultants' survey. Glendale Adventist received 12 awards from PRC, a national health care marketing research company: three in patient satisfaction for its outpatient radiology, MRI Coronary Care Unit and Emergency Department; four in physician satisfaction; and five in employee satisfaction.