Industry and Commerce Assn. Honors Times Valley Edition
The Valley Edition of the Los Angeles Times received the 1991 Robert E. Gibson Corporate Award of Excellence Thursday night from the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn.
Jeffrey S. Klein, president of the Valley and Ventura County editions, accepted the award at a dinner at the Warner Center Marriott. Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of The Times, was the keynote speaker.
James Gourley, chairman of the board of VICA, said the Valley Edition exemplifies “the ability to consistently produce a quality product in a very competitive marketplace with an unswerving dedication to its mission of providing the region’s most comprehensive news coverage, and to be an involved and active community partner.”
The organization noted that in 1990 The Times raised about $100,000 for United Way, made direct grants to nonprofit groups through its Community Partnership Awards and sent a mobile reading laboratory to locations around the San Fernando Valley.
Other local activities The Times Valley Edition sponsored or supported, VICA pointed out, were the Van Nuys Air Show, 5- and 10-kilometer runs for the California Council of the Blind, the San Fernando Valley Fair, the Valley Cultural Center Concerts in the Parks series, the Fernando Award, the Glendale Transportation Fair, the Glendale Galleria Literacy Campaign, the Regional Transportation District’s People Moving L.A. contest, the Val Trans Senior Fair, the Fiddle Dee Dee Festival, the Woodland Hills Heart Run and the Great Race of Agoura.
