Encino : Couple to Be Honored for Community Work
A couple who have worked for community causes for a combined total of 100 years will be honored with the Circle of Life Award from the Valley Jewish Business Leaders Assn. on Sunday.
Toba and Earl Greinetz--married for 45 years--started volunteering as teenagers with the Denver Jewish Youth Council in 1946. They worked with other community groups in Denver until they moved to the San Fernando Valley in 1968.
The award will be presented during a dinner at the Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Encino.
The couple have focused their volunteer work on senior citizens, children, and family issues. Earl is a property manager and Toba, a former child abuse counselor, volunteers with the University of Judaism and the Jewish Home for the Aging.
Earl helped found the Valley Jewish Business Leaders Assn. four years ago as a professional group to aid the Jewish Home for the Aging.
They have also been involved in the Los Angeles Hillel Council, the Bureau of Jewish Education, the Lupus Society, the San Fernando Valley Alliance and Valley Beth Shalom synagogue.
The Greinetzes have three children and six grandchildren.
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