Greg and Susan Goggin of marketing firm GCA Santa Barbara were honored for their fundraising and awareness efforts on behalf of the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. Dana Point Mayor Lisa Bartlett presented the Goggins with a city proclamation. Ocean Institute President Dan Stetson presented them with a plaque now on display at the institute. The Goggins helped run a raffle of a Laguna Beach home to benefit the institute.
Irvine-based Fuscoe Engineering Inc.’s Bluebird Canyon Landslide Reconstruction project in Laguna Beach received an Outstanding Private Sector Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fuscoe Engineering provided emergency civil engineering services when a 2005 landslide damaged homes in Bluebird Canyon.
Exterior designer Miriam Tate received the Max C. Tipton Memorial Award. The award recognizes marketing professionals in the real estate and building industry. She is founder of Miriam Tate Co. in Laguna Beach.
Santa Ana-based WisePlace, a transitional shelter serving homeless women, won the 2009 Social Enterprise Academy Competition for the Wise Silver Center, an adult daycare center.
Leila Mozaffari, director of the Orange County Small Business Development Center in Santa Ana, was named one of six 2009 California “State Stars” by the national Association of Small Business Development Centers. She has led the center since 2006.
Chicago-based Brightstar Healthcare, a healthcare staffing agency, awarded Huntington Beach BrightStar owner Ardy Azhir with its 2009 Pioneer Award. The award recognizes owners who have embraced technology, processes and programs.
Tennessee-based Life Care Centers of Amer-ica honored Nelia Yonzon, executive director at Orangegrove Rehabilitation Hospital in Garden Grove, with a President’s Award. The award recognizes distinguished service in long-term healthcare management. Yonzon has been with Orangegrove for eight years.
Janet Green, chief executive of Irvine’s Greens Printing, part of Irvine-based Precision Offset, was inducted into the Printing Industry Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y. She is the third woman inductee in hall of fame’s 24-year history. Green has served as chairman of Pennsyl-vania-based trade group Printing Industries of America and was the first woman chair in its 130-year history.
