The City of Los Angeles believes that today’s youth are our biggest allies in our fight against climate change and global warming. Over 6000 students attended the Environmental Youth Conference participating in workshops on climate change, sustainable living and career counseling in emerging green technologies.
Photo above: SCBA’s LaFern Cusack and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Photo right: Students Daniel Farahdel, Adam Gerard and Ariel Winter with LaFern Cusack (center)
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) presented its 7th Annual Local Impact Awards Luncheon on Thursday, September 24th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The annual celebration honored those individuals or entities whose achievements, generosity of spirit, or courage-under-fire have greatly benefited the Southern California Latino community.
Above: Victor Zaragoza (KHHT (Hot 92.3) and Mary Beth Garber (SCBA President)
Left: Mary Beth Garber, Art Laboe and LaFern Cusack
Below: Tony Valdez (FOX 11/ MY13 LA) and Victor Zaragoza (KHHT Hot 92.3)
Left: Ray Paleaz (Power 106 fm Big Boy's Neighborhood), Mary Beth Garber, Big Boy and Art Laboe
Art Laboe was proud to support and attend the awards luncheon. Laboe has successfully organized several charity benefits and concerts, and is also founder of the "Art Laboe Foundation," which gives annual scholarships to four East Los Angeles high schools and supports other charitable organizations such as the Wildlife Way Station and the American Humane Society.
The General Sales Managers Council developed SCBU in 1994 as a training course for beginning sales people. The course content, structure and emphasis have evolved as our business has evolved. We teach the fundamentals of radio sales, and conclude with a session where student teams do presentations that are critiqued by a team of GSMs and/or LSMs.
SCBU Judges for the recent graduating students were:
Anne Hudson, LSM, KPWR; David T. Severino, GSM, KAMP; Leonard Madrid, GSM, KLOS; Amber Perry, GSM, KRTH; Luis Hernandez, LSM, KBUE/ KHJ and Mary Beth Garber, Pres, SCBA
Photo above: Spring 2009 SCBU Class
The AWRT SoCal Chapter and SCBA hosted an EEO workshop on September 23rd at the Burbank Public Library. Over 20 Radio and Television representatives attended. The EEO training workshop was designed to provide training to management level personnel as to methods of ensuring equal employment opportunity and preventing discrimination.
Above right: David Muñoz, Jr., Dir. of Human Resources, LBI Media, Inc.
Left: Mary Beth Garber and Doris Quesada, Dir. of Human Resources, KTLA
Right: Julie Kertes and Laura Behrman (AWRT SoCal), Marcos and Juan Mondragon (Ruby’s Diner at Citadel Outlets), Mary Beth Garber and LaFern Cusack (SCBA).
Thousands of fans flocked to the Nokia Theatre at LA Live to attend the much-anticipated world premiere of This Is It. Power 106’s Big Boy in the Morning was selected by Sony Pictures to host the Red Carpet Premiere for the English language world wide internet coverage. Attendees included Will Smith, Paula Abdul, Mickey Rooney, Paris Hilton, Neil Patrick Harris, Martin Lawrence, Adam Lambert, David Cook, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy
