Chamber Installation Dinner Is June 10

Tickets are on sale for the 61st annual Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce installation dinner dance on Thursday evening, June 10, at the Riviera Country Club.”   Honorary Mayor Gavin MacLeod (‘Love Boat’ and’ ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’) will attend the ceremonies to begin his unprecedented fifth year as captain of the U.S.S. Pacific Palisades.’   ’No honorary mayor of our town has ever served this long,’ noted outgoing Chamber President Ramis Sadrieh, owner of Technology for You! and a Palisades High alum. ‘Ted Knight, John Raitt and Steve Guttenberg each served four years.”   Stepping into Sadrieh’s job will be another young, longtime Palisadian, John B. Petrick, whose father Bud served as Chamber president in 1973-74. John’s mother, Lori, was a popular teacher at Palisades Elementary, and her death in 2002 inspired the Lori Petrick Excellence in Education Award, presented annually to local teachers by the Palisades Charter Schools Foundation. ‘   John Petrick, a 1998 graduate of PaliHi, is the CEO of Perennial Financial Services, a firm he co-founded in 2004. He will be returning from his honeymoon just hours before the installation.’   During the evening, the annual Beautification Award will be given to U.S. Bank (formerly Cal National Bank) for its new bank building and landscaping at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Swarthmore Avenue. Presenting the award will be the Rotary Club of Pacific Palisades.’   The eighth annual Mort Farberow Award will be presented to longtime Palisadian Bob Ryan, the adjutant at American Legion Post 283 and a former JV baseball coach at Palisades High for many years.   Criteria for this award are the 3 C’s that Mort Farberow (the late owner of Mort’s Deli on Swarthmore) held dear to him:’community, Chamber and children.’Past recipients include Bob Benton, Bob Sharka, Roberta Donohue, Cheryel Kanan, Sam Lagana, David Williams and Rich Wilken.’   John Petrick’s new executive committee includes Ramis Sadrieh, immediate past president; Nicole Howard (This Week in the Palisades.com), vice president; Greg Wood (chief business officer at Palisades Charter High School), vice president; Roberta Donohue (Palisadian-Post and Post Printing), past president and advisor; Brad Lusk (Self-Realization Lake Shrine), past-president and advisor; and David Williams (former owner of Mogan’s Caf’), past president and advisor.’   Board members include Joyce Brunelle (Suntricity, Inc.), Susan Carroll (Gift Garden Antiques), Chris Erickson (Aldersgate Retreat Center), Zara Guivi (Oppenheimer and Company, Inc.), Jennifer Lowe (Skyline Financial Corporation), Ben Meyerson (Denise Carolyn for Women), and Shannon Watson, D.C (Vital Force).”   The installing officer will be Palisadian Norman Kulla, district director for the office of Councilman Bill Rosendahl.””””””’ ”””   Leaving the board are Rena Bornstein (Cogniatatives Brain Training), Antonia Balfour (Oasis Palisades), and’Sandy Eddy (SJE Nonprofit Consulting).   The evening’s emcee will again be Brad Lusk. The social hour begins at 6 p.m., and there will be dancing to the music of Ernie Hernandez and his Orchestra. Silent auction items will be on display.’   Tickets are $85 per person. Please visit the Chamber office at 15330 Antioch St., or call (310) 459-7963 to make a reservation.’ ‘