Edward T. Lara was named San Gabriel’s...

Edward T. Lara was named San Gabriel’s 1990 Outstanding Older American at the city’s 77th birthday party and Chamber of Commerce trade fair.

Lara, 70, was honored for his work with youth over the past 10 years at the San Gabriel Mission. He has worked cleaning up graffiti, with gangs and with drug-related problems. He also worked closely with the San Gabriel Mission Grammar School and Church, serving as lunch monitor and crossing guard and managing a mariachi band that plays at the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass.

He has been involved with the Celaya, Mexico-San Gabriel Sister Cities Project.

Lara was a San Gabriel city councilman from 1976 to 1988 and was mayor from 1982 to 1984. Along with honorees from 85 other cities in Los Angeles County, he will be recognized by the County Board of Supervisors on May 12.

Nat B. Read of the Pasadena public relations agency Read Communications has been elected president of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce for the 1990-91 year. He replaces Ann Hight and begins his term July 1.

Read, 51, a chamber member for 20 years, is also a Pasadena Rotary Club member and a former trustee of the Pasadena Historical Society. He served as a former board member of the Pasadena Navy League, the Upper Hastings Ranch Assn., the Los Angeles Urban League, the Los Angeles Volunteer Center and the Publicity Club of Los Angeles.

He is also a free-lance writer and a stand-up comic.

Read is married to Mary N. Hamilton, president of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce. They have two children.

Dorothy Raymond of Sierra Madre has been elected to the board of directors of the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles.

A distributor for McGraw Hill Random House textbooks, Raymond is also a member of the Cape of Good Hope Foundation.

The visitors council acquaints current and potential leaders in international opinion with the Los Angeles community. Visitors in business, government, media, education and the arts and sciences come to the United States mainly at the invitation of American embassies.

More than 120 heads of state and 2,000 cabinet, ambassadorial or parliamentary officers have taken part in the program, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the late leaders Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Indira Gandhi of India.

Jan Mackay of Temple City and Jean Gunnell of San Marino are chairing the Second Annual Community Appeal of the Sierra Madres Girl Scout Council. Mackay is also the development specialist of the Red Cross in Alhambra and a board member of the American Humanics, a graduate organization at Cal State Los Angeles. Gunnell is a member of the Junior League of Pasadena.

In the campaign, volunteers solicit money for the Girl Scouts. The Sierra Madres council covers Pasadena, Glendale and the San Gabriel Valley area. The council has about 4,000 volunteers, and is looking for more. Interested persons can call Beth Romans at (818) 445-7771.