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    21st Annual Black Rose Award Winners Announced

    Mr. Dorthey Gray is the Black Rose Awards’ “Humanitarian of the Year” award winner for 2010.

    The Rev. Floyd Lofton is the Black Rose Awards’ “Community Service Award” recipient for 2010.

    (SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.)  “Our 21st annual Black Rose Awards,” says Margaret Hill, program chairman, “honor community leaders who have graciously given of themselves to make our area the best it can be.”
    The Valencia Room of the National Orange Show (689 S. East Street in San Bernardino) will be the site of this gala ceremony on Sept. 10. The San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation will recognize eight award recipients.

    Heading the list as “Humanitarian of the Year” is Mr. Dorthey “Dorty” Gray who has retired from Southern California Edison and is now simply known as “Coach.”

    Selected for the “Community Service Award” is the Rev. Floyd Lofton, assistant pastor of San Bernardino’s New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.

    A half-dozen outstanding individuals in San Bernardino County will receive the coveted “Black Rose Award.”

    §       Pastor Larry Campbell is the senior pastor at the city’s St. Paul A.M.E. Church
    §       Sam Handley is the Highland Family YMCA’s Associate executive director
    §       Best-selling local author, Janice Higgins, is the founder and director of Project R.A.G.E. (Release of Anger and Guilt Through Empowerment)
    §       From Sovereign Employee Benefits, Inc. is CEO Ron King
    §       Will Larkin is an area real estate investor
    §       The Director of Youth Action Project, Inc. (YAP) is Joseph Williams

    Other nominees, granted “Black Rose Recognition” by the Black Culture Foundation, are Shauna Albright, John Coleman, Dr. Betty Daniels and Brenda Parker.

    Hosting the evening’s ceremony for the sixth consecutive year are California State University San Bernardino Professor of Theater Arts Kathryn Ervin and Dameron Communications Carl Dameron.
    Tickets for the Black Rose Awards September 10 gala are $60 per person and $600 for reserved tables of 10. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. with the ceremony at 7 p.m. To order tickets or reserve a table, call program chairman Margaret Hill at (909) 991-6422.

    “Don’t miss out,” urges Hill. “The evening will be one of the community highlights of 2010.”
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