Cindy Simon, whose 17 years in Pacific Palisades have been punctuated by her energetic leadership on numerous volunteer community projects, has been awarded the 2007 Community Service Award. In announcing the award, bestowed by the Pacific Palisades Community Council, the board highlighted Simon’s tireless efforts towards improving her local school, her neighborhood, and the community at large. Simon initiated, coordinated and participated in major beautification projects at Canyon Elementary, including renovations of the campus grounds and transforming the historic one-room schoolhouse into a library. In her Huntington Palisades neighborhood, she organized the now-annual Party in the Park, and with husband Bill Simon hosts the ‘welcome’ breakfast on her front lawn for Fourth of July 5/10K runners. Later that day she’s an announcer along the parade route at the corner of Drummond and Toyopa. On the community level, Simon has provided unstinting support for the YMCA, volunteering her home for fundraising events and, this year, spearheading the debut of the Y’s Scarecrow contest. She and her husband provided a major donation to help the Y acquire its corner parcel in Temescal Gateway Park, which is now called Simon Meadow. In addition, notes a statement by the Community Council, ‘Cindy regularly acts as an unofficial ‘Graffiti Buster,’ carrying paint cans and brushes in her car’s trunk and painting out unsightly graffiti whenever she comes upon it in the Palisades.’ Simon will be honored at the Community Council’s holiday dinner meeting on December 13 in the dining hall at Temescal Gateway Park. (The Palisadian-Post will publish an interview with Simon in an upcoming issue.)
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