The Pacific Palisades Community Council will celebrate its 40th Anniversary Thursday and honor the winners of the Golden Sparkplug Award.
The event will take place at the Palisades Branch Library Community room starting at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. Sparkplug award recipients include Susan McInerney, Leslie Pereira and Bruce Schwartz.
“Each of these worthy honorees contributed to the betterment, safety and community involvement within Pacific Palisades in 2012,” Community Council President Barbara Kohn told the Palisadian-Post.
McInerney was honored on behalf of her volunteer work at the Palisades Recreation Center the past three years, first for conceiving and organizing a “Spooktacular” event every Halloween that draws 800 to 1,000 people, and second for chairing a similar Easter event called “Eggstravaganza.”
Pereira was recognized for launching (with her husband, Eugene Volokh) the Pacific Palisades Spelling Bee at the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center in February 2012, an event that drew 115 students (first through fifth grade) from 15 schools. She again chaired this year’s event, which attracted 135 students.
In 2012, said nominator Janet Turner, “Bruce Schwartz sparked the idea of a Sunset Safety Week and particularly the aspect of banners along Sunset to educate our community about the dangers of distracted driving.”
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