Glendale resident to get Cardinal’s Award

Judy Seckler

CASA VERDUGO -- Longtime Glendale resident Iva May Carrico is one of

five honorees selected to receive the 2001 Cardinal’s Award for

outstanding service to the Catholic church.

The honorees will receive their awards at the Cardinal’s Award Dinner

on Feb. 3, 2001 at the Cardinal Award’s Dinner at the Beverly Hilton

Hotel.

“I was surprised as anybody to hear the news,” Carrico said.

Considering that there are approximately 800,000 practicing Catholics

in the Archdioceses of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties,

Carrico was pleased to be singled out.

Carrico was voted News-Press Woman of Achievement in 1997. She

belongs to 10 different service organizations in Glendale. She volunteers

one day a week at Catholic Charities Loaves and Fishes Thrift shop and

she’s a member of the Region One auxiliary group to the Archdioceses that

raises money for youth groups, ESL classes and employment and immigrant

counselors for the center located on San Fernando Road.

She works with the Good Shepard Center for Homeless Women to feed

homeless women in the MacArthur Park area.

Carrico, half Chippewa-Cree American Indian, is also a member of the

City of Angels Kateri Circle that does projects with urban American

Indians of Catholic faith.

“She has tremendous energy,” said Elaine Arellano, coordinator for the

special services department at the Archdioceses of Los Angeles.