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After a long absence from the
newspaper field, Mel and his family have chosen the northwest valley as
the “best location on earth” for their community newspaper, The Valley
Voice.
Mel has a B.A. in
Journalism from Michigan State University, and a law degree, and has
been associated with Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley, both in Beverly
Hills, for over 20 years. As editor of one of the largest UAW-AFL-CIO
weeklies in the nation, he won dozens of awards from the Neiman Fellows,
Columbia University.
Both Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson invited him to the White House. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he
has been active in B’nai B’rith for almost 50 years, and was President
of the Beverly Hills Chapter for a number of terms.
Rachel, who immigrated
from the Philippines in 1992, leaves behind a very active church,
community, and nursing record. She was president of the Christ
Ambassadors Organization of the Assemblies of God and the Philippine
Nursing Students Association. In 1989, she received the Nasaria Lagos
Award for exemplary performance in the Arts, Community Services and
Leadership. She has worked as an oncology nurse for more than 10 years
at Cedars Sinai Hospital Cancer Center in Los Angeles. She also spent
four years at the reknown M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She
attends Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch.
Josh, 6,
"copy boy",
already likes to write ("My First All-Star Game"), and in addition to
baseball, loves basketball. Josh attends Germaine Street Elementary
School, and Temple Ahavat Shalom’s Sunday School (Northridge).
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