Local garden activist Barbara Marinacci and Fourth of July pre-fireworks concert organizer Keith Turner have been selected as the 2010 Golden Sparkplug winners by the Pacific Palisades Community Council. The two will be honored at the Palisadian-Post’s Citizen of the Year dinner, along with ‘Citizen’ Rich Wilken, on Thursday, April 28 at the American Legion Hall on La Cruz.   Presented since 1974, the Sparkplug Award honors Palisades residents who have launched a new idea or project that benefited the community during 2010. The project can be in progress or completed and must have a broad community impact or affect a large group of people.’   Marinacci was recognized for various projects around town, including her leadership role) in restoring the long-neglected Native Plant Garden in Temescal Canyon Park, south of Bowdoin Street.   Keith Turner, a Palisades lawyer and amateur drummer with the local House Band, created and developed the Palisades Rocks the Fourth concert, which officially became an annual event in 2010.   Reservations for the Citizen dinner ($47.50 per person) can be made by sending a check made out to Palisadian-Post Citizen of the Year Banquet, c/o Palisadian-Post, P.O. Box 725, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
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