Volunteers Honored for Service to Girl Scouts
The Thanks Badge, highest honor for Girl Scout volunteers, has been presented to Lloyd Massey of Newport Beach, De Vere Heard of Santa Ana and Jay Darakjian of Garden Grove at the recent 23rd annual Girl Scout Council of Orange County recognition dinner.
Others receiving awards at the event were Bernice Hird of La Habra, who received the Thanks Badge II recognizing continued outstanding service by a previous Thanks Badge recipient.
Honors also went to Phyllis Green of Newport Beach, Mel Mahan of Anaheim and Dianna Sundell of Garden Grove, all Honor Pin recipients.
Others include Carolyn Beaver of Irvine, Norman Eckenrode of Placentia, Carol Hamilton of Costa Mesa, Diane Miller of Garden Grove, Shirley Rhodes of Mission Viejo and Cathy Tochluk of Westminster, Appreciation Pin winners.
The Good Guy award was presented to Leonard Estrada of Yorba Linda, while special awards were given to Sharon Allemann of Westminster, and Pat and Gary Kirchoff, Mission Viejo.
Orange resident Sal Martinez, who started as a groundskeeper in 1967 and worked his way to district superintendent of the Orange County Cemetery District, has retired after 24 years, most of them at El Toro Memorial Park.
Fifth-grader Randy Johnson at Lomarena Elementary School in Laguna Hills and sixth-grader Kelly Dobson at Linda Vista Elementary School in Orange won first place in their grades in a “Why Say No to Drugs Contest.”
Both were presented $500 savings bonds by the sponsors, the Orange County Pharmacists Assn., the Orange County Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Carl’s Jr. Restaurants and Edwards Theaters. The contest was designed to promote anti-drug awareness at the elementary-school level.
The fifth- and sixth-grade competition attracted 650 entries from students in the Anaheim, Centralia, Irvine, Magnolia, Orange, Saddleback and Savannah school districts.
Vince Paris of Costa Mesa, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New Haven, Conn., and coordinator of the Cypress College culinary arts department, was named Southern California Chef of the Year by the Orange Empire Chefs Assn. By winning, he is eligible to compete for the National Chef of the Year title in July, 1992.
Ruth Crew, program adviser for the Orange County Outdoor Science School in the San Bernardino Mountains, has been presented the Howard M. Bell Award for outstanding achievement and contributions to outdoor education.
The award was presented to the Lakewood woman by the Assn. for Environmental Outdoor Education, Southern Section.
Sage Humphries, 12, a seventh-grader at Thurston Middle School in Laguna Beach and a linebacker for the Saddleback Valley Junior Midget Blue Bears, has been named a Pop Warner Football National Scholar-Athlete.
La Palma resident Terry Bettar, 35, recruited in 1987 as a volunteer while a patient undergoing rehabilitation treatment, was named Volunteer of the Year for La Palma Intercommunity Hospital.
Bettar, paralyzed in a surfing accident when he was 18, volunteers in the hospital’s social service department, assisting with telephone calls and data entry.
The La Palma resident transports himself three times a week by wheelchair to the hospital, spending an average of 10 hours a week volunteering.
Laguna Beach High School students Rene Gutierrez, Dale Harris, J.P. Herbert and Jesse Bartels were selected to show their ceramics at the recent “Color it Orange” exhibit at the Art Institute of Southern California in Laguna Beach.
Michelle Hammond, Christine Higgs, Ian Sandler and Chris Turnier were selected to exhibit their paintings and drawings.
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