DEFENSE ALLIANCE NAMES DIRECTOR.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - James E. Simmons has been named the new executive director for the Southwest Defense Alliance. Simmons will manage the administration and operations of the five-state coalition and oversee its communications, advocacy and development programs. ``Jim has been a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective supporter of, and counselor to, the alliance, and we are confident of his ability to assist the board of directors in preserving and enhancing the valuable national defense missions and assets in the American Southwest,'' said Jon McQuiston, a Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County supervisor and member of the Southwest Defense Alliance board of directors. Simmons is also managing partner of a California-based communications and advocacy firm, president of a regional press club, and chairman of the board of advisors of a charitable endowment A transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution for a particular purpose. The bestowal of money as a permanent fund, the income of which is to be used for the benefit of a charity, college, or other institution. . The Southwest Defense Alliance was founded in 1997 to help protect military bases in Arizona Arizona (âr'əzō`nə), state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W). , California, Nevada, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). and Utah from defense budget cuts. |
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