Junior Women Award $96,000

The Palisades Junior Women’s Club awarded a record $96,350 to 40 local organizations at a reception Tuesday evening at the Woman’s Club. Recreation, public schools, community service and beautification groups topped the list of major award recipients this year. To help celebrate the event, 26 past presidents of the club, including Dotty Larson (1954-55) and Vonnie Flowers (1957-58) from the 1950s, participated in the festivities. ‘It has been a spectacular year,’ said current president Jenifer Byington, adding that the club had raised more money than in the past. ‘It’s not about how much each group gets, just the meaning for them. Some groups like the Oom Pa Pa Band or the Palisades Art Association ask for a small amount every year, and they are always so appreciative.’ For the past 19 years, the club has donated the proceeds from its annual Holiday Home Tour and Boutique to deserving nonprofit organization serving the Palisades community. This year for the first time, the club added an estate sale that netted over $5,000. The Junior Women’s Club was established over 60 years ago as a way to bring dedicated young women together to enhance and preserve the unique qualities of the Palisades community. The 2005 grant recipients included: Beautification: Palisades Village Green Committee’$2,500; Palisades Garden Club’$500; Palisades Beautiful’ $5,000; Palisades P.R.I.D.E.’$4,500. Education: Palisades High School Booster Club’$4,000; Paul Revere PRIDE Booster Club’$4,000; Canyon Charter School Booster Club’$4,000; Friends of Marquez Marquez Charter Elementary’$4,000; P.E.P. Palisades Elementary School’$4,000; Palisades Charter Schools Foundation’$5,000; Calvary Christian School’$500; Nature of Wildworks’$250. Community Services & Charitable Organizations: Sisters of St. Louis League $1,000; Palisades Hunger Walk’$250; Oom Pa Pa Band’$600′ Fire Station #69’$2,000; Fire Station #23’$2,000; Heal the Bay’$500; Palisades Americanism Parade Association’$4,000; Meals on Wheels’$400; Jules & Doris Stein UCLA Support Group’$750; Friends of Villa Aurora’$250. Chamber of Commerce: Disaster Preparedness’$500; Holiday Decorations’$1,000; Street Maintenance’$3,000. Boy Scouts of America: Crew 223 $1,000; Camp Josepho’1,250; Camp Managers Corps’$1,200; Kevin Niles Memorial Library & Learning Center’$500. Recreation: Palisades Art Association’$250; USC Thornton Music Program’$750; Chamber Music Palisades’$500; Palisades Symphony’$500; Friends of Film’$4,000; Palisades-Malibu YMCA’$3,500; Palisades Recreation Center’$4,800; AYSO Region 69’$2,500; USA Youth Triathlon’$100; Pacific Palisades Historical Society’$1,000; Field of Dreams’$5,000.