Kudos
Compiled by Samantha Lee
Orange County’s United Way gave its highest honor, the Dimension in Giving award, to United Parcel Service Inc. for its community service.
Newport Beach-based FMC Financial Group was awarded MassMutual Financial Group’s Golden Bowl. The honor recognizes the affiliated agency that saw the greatest growth in several areas, including new business premiums, first-year commissions and its field force.
Tim Ryan, general manager of the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, was named facility executive of the year at the 13th annual Pollstar Concert Industry Consortium Awards ceremony.
Dick Baker, Irvine-based Ocean Pacific Apparel Corp.’s chief executive and president of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, received the Creative Leadership Award for his revitalization of the Op surfwear line by the Los Angeles-based Otis College of Art and Design.
The Wunderman creative team of Y & R; Cos. in Irvine won two bronze awards from the 2001 International Automotive Advertising Awards for its Jaguar X-Type “Fulfillment” and Jaguar E-Type 40th anniversary mailer campaigns.
Santa Margarita Water District’s chief engineer, Dan Ferons, received the Leadership in Engineering Award from the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering. The award is given to engineers who demonstrate leadership in the engineering field and offer guidance to beginning engineers.
Irvine-based NetScope Inc. won three Mercury awards from Ossining, N.Y.-based MerComm Inc., recognizing achievement in professional communications. NetScope earned the gold award for being a top creative designer, a silver award for the design of the Irvine Spectrum Center kiosk and a bronze award for the redevelopment of Rental-Living.com.
Cypress College named its Americana Citizens of the Year for contribution to their communities: Fullerton’s Carol Latham; Garden Grove’s Tony and Emma Lombardi; La Palma’s Richard and Joan Lutz; Cypress’ Walter Bowman; Buena Park’s Mary Sutherland; and Stanton’s Alicita Lee Lewis-Younker.
Michael Lewis, chief executive of Costa Mesa-based HomeAid America, was named a 2002 Professional Builder Trail Blazer Achievement Award winner. The award recognizes building industry individuals who provide a unique vision for the industry.
San Clemente-based The Collaborative West was awarded five grand Major Achievement in Marketing Excellence awards, sponsored by the Sales & Marketing Council of the Building Industry Association of Southern California. Collaborative won for models of landscape architecture attached-sailhouse; landscape architecture worth more than $1 million; attached community-sailhouse; detached community; and detached community worth more than $1 million. Irvine-based Kovach Marketing won three MAME awards for best overall advertising campaign, best master-planned community of the year and best signage.
Lori Zielgler of Lake Forest-based Professional Community Management Inc. has been named “Community Association Manager of the Year” by the OC chapter of the California Associations Institute.
Laguna Hills-based Episcopal Service Alliance named U.S. Rep. Edward Royce its public service QuickReach Humanitarian of the Year, volunteer Lew Lardie its private citizen humanitarian of the year and Macy’s its corporate humanitarian of the year.
The Costa Mesa Conference & Visitor Bureau was the recipient of two awards from the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International. The bureau received a silver merit award for its compact disc and a bronze merit award for its Costa Mesa Orange County Classic Jazz Festival campaign.
The American Red Cross recognized two OC residents and a non-profit organization. Santa Ana resident Angela Milanovic was awarded the 2002 Tiffany Award for employee excellence in support services. Gen. (Ret.) Neil E. Allgood of Los Alamitos received the Harriman Award for distinguished volunteer service. And St. Anselm’s Cross Cultural Community Center in Garden Grove was the recipient of the 2002 International Humanitarian Service Award.
The Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada awarded the Orange County Fire Authority the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. The award recognizes the accomplishment, by a government agency, in governmental accounting and financial reporting.
SBA Honors Business
Stacy Henderson’s move to stay at home with her kids turned into an award-winning business for the Huntington Beach resident.
Henderson and husband Richard are publishers and owners of Huntington Beach-based Home Business Magazine. The two recently were named California home-based business advocates of the year by the Santa Ana district office of the Small Business Administration.
Henderson began working on her magazine in 1994. The following year, Richard Henderson left his job at Fluor Corp.’s Fluor Daniel unit to join her full time.
The bimonthly magazine, which is sold at newsstands and by subscription, has grown circulation from 1,595 copies in 1994 to more than 80,000 today.
Readers typically are home-based business owners, home office workers and telecommuters who check the magazine for articles relating to the starting and expanding of home businesses. The couple started a Web site, homebusinessmag.com, in 1996.
The Hendersons also support nationwide home business seminars, conferences and expositions. They are set to be honored at the SBA’s Small Business Award Luncheon on Thursday at the Irvine Marriott.
,Samantha Lee
