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Monrovia Weekly Nov 05, 2012
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Each year the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce selects three individuals for its highest acknowledgments: the Iris Award for the Citizen of the Year, the Monroe Award for the Business Person of the Year, and the Dick Lord Award for the individuals who has make outstanding contributions to the Chamber itself. The honorees this year are: Pastor Joshua Smith, Iris Award, Julie Gentile, Monroe Award and Nancy Bond, Dick Lord Award.
The Iris Award, named for the city flower, is presented to honor a resident for his or her contributions, past and present, to the betterment of the community. Smith is the pastor of the Mountainside Communion, and is being honored for his work on building the Clergy/School Partnership. In addition, he has worked with the Monrovia Arcadia Ministerial Association and the YMCA’s Youth Alliance alog with several other such groups.
Julie Gentile a partner in the accounting firm Gentile, McCloskey & Company, moved the business to Monrovia in 2011, but she has been involved in the community long before the move. She has been a member of the Monrovia Kiwanis Clup and its immediate past president She chaired the Club’s Taste of Monrovia this year and last year (a event which benefits the local YMCA). She is also an active board member of Monrovia Reads, the Chamber of Commerce, and Foothill Unity Center (she is also the center’s volunteer accountant). The Monroe Award, named for most prominent found of the town, honors her for all of her work in the community despite not being a resident of Monrovia.
The third award, the Dick Lord Award acknowledges the work of Bond of Bond Insurance Services, in supporting the aims and endeavors the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce. For the past several years, she has volunteered many hours to the Chamber and is currently the secretary of the Chamber’s Board of Directors and is on the Membership Development Committee.
All three of these awards will be presented at the Chamber’s Annual Membership and Awards Dinner on January 25, 2013 at the Courtyard by Marriot.
