GELB GARNERS FERNANDO AWARD.Byline: Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS - Rickey Gelb was the toast of the town Friday night. The 56-year-old Encino real estate developer and property manager was honored with the Fernando Award, the Valley's most prestigious honor for community service, at the 42nd Annual Recognition Dinner at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel. More than 300 people, including his wife, Robbi, and children, Geoffrey, 29, and Lisa, 27, attended the event. ``I love the Valley and have always felt part of the picture here ... so it was easy to give back,'' said Gelb. ``Once you start volunteering, you see results and you feel better about yourself.'' Gelb was toasted by a variety of civic leaders, and those attending included Rep. Brad Sherman Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing California's At-large congressional district. , D-Woodland Hills, District Attorney Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. , Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. , Councilwoman Laura Chick and Judge Armand Arabian. The evening's hosts were David Fleming
David Fleming and Lee Kanon Alpert. ``He's one of the heroes of the Valley, who gives more than he gets,'' said Fleming. ``I wish we had more Rickey Gelbs in the Valley.'' Fernando President Thomas Soule described Gelb as ``a great guy who's energetic, hardworking and also a successful businessman.'' Gelb was born in St. Louis, Mo., but was raised in Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks, where he started his entrepreneurial career as a 10-year-old, selling greeting cards and salt and pepper shakers Salt and pepper shakers are condiment holders used in Western culture that are designed to allow food eaters to distribute edible salt and ground pepper.[1] This is a conjoined term for salt shaker and pepper shaker. door to door. Gelb graduated from Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was and, after working a number of years with his father in the electronics business, started Gelb Enterprises, a real estate development and property management company. His community service began with City of Hope - he was honored with the Award of Merit in 1984 - and he has since been involved with more than 20 organizations, including the Encino Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on various boards, including Mayor Richard Riordan's Valley Job Recovery Corp., and recently he and his family helped plant a tree on Ventura Boulevard with the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association. Soule praised Gelb for his help in securing a Sherman Oaks office building for the Economic Alliance of 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 Valley Economic Development Center, where the Fernando Awards and other organizations will have offices. The building is scheduled to open in March. Gelb vowed to make the site, to be called the Valley Corporate Community Center, his top priority during his year in office, addingthat securing the site occurred with the help of past Fernando winners Bert Boeckmann and Fleming, as well as Wells Fargo Bank. ``My idea was to create a one-stop civic center to create more jobs and bring more business to the Valley,'' said Gelb. Gelb was nominated for the Fernando Award by the Encino, Agoura and Studio City chambers of commerce, as well as Haven Hills Inc., Van Nuys Jeopardy and Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski. Each year, Fernando Award winners are presented with a statue, and their names are engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. on statues at the Van Nuys Civic Center and Warner Park in Woodland Hills. The other nominees were: --Ed Cholakian of Granada Hills, the head of Uniglobe Executive Travel in Sylmar. --Rose Goldwater of Woodland Hills, a community activist for 30 years and past honorary mayor of Woodland Hills. --Bob Scott of West Hills, an attorney who has been affiliated with the United Chambers of Commerce, the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley and the San Fernando Valley Association of Realtors. --Marvin Selter of Studio City, who is chairman of the board of the consulting firm CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Inc. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Fernando Award winner Rickey Gelb, second from right, with David Fleming, Lee Kanon Alpert and Rep. Brad Sherman. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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