Newsmakers for the week of May 7-13
J.D. Fraser was inducted into the Foothill High School Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame Feb. 1.
Fraser built the high school’s athletic program from the school’s founding in 1999 until 2007.
He was state Athletic Director of the Year in 2004.
A Clark County School District teacher and coach for 35 years, Fraser plans to retire at the end of this school year.
Pat Revzin of Henderson was recognized as the Senior of the Quarter by the Las Vegas Senior Citizen Advisory Board.
Revzin, a retired English teacher, volunteers with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Nevada.
Joseph Quagliano was recognized with a 2013 Legacy of Achievement Award by the College of Southern Nevada Foundation at the Legacy of Achievement Gala April 27.
Quagliano, director of CSN’s food and beverage management program, has served on several college committees and volunteered for many events.
He has received awards from the International Food Service Executives Association and the Knights of Columbus.
Aynalem Workneh has been inducted into the Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Nevada Hall of Fame.
An immigrant from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Workneh is the founder and president of Angels of Las Vegas, a nonprofit organization that helps children and adults battling cancer and supports families in need.
Kam Fierstine was recognized for his efforts to advance sustainability at the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards in Washington, D.C.
Fierstine, a manager at the Unilever Henderson Ice Cream plant, is scheduled to be one of six dairy industry sustainability leaders featured in a milk mustache ad in the June issue of Dairy Foods magazine.
Arcata Associates Inc. and JT3 have been selected as semifinalists for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense operational committee.
The Freedom Award is the Department of Defense’s highest honor for employers that provide extraordinary support to their Guard and Reserve employees.
Rebel Morris has been named Volunteer of the Year by Philanthropy Journal.
Morris is executive director for Can You Identify Me, a nonprofit organization that provides forensic art services to law enforcement.
Leeanne Schroer-Motz, Ph.D., an instructor of business writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been named one of five winners of the UNLV Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award.
Winners receive a cash stipend and a plaque and will have their names displayed on the UNLV Wall of Fame in the Lied Library.
Yvanna Cancela of Las Vegas was honored as one of 11 Cesar Chavez Champions of Change at the White House on March 26.
Cancela is the political director for UNITE HERE’s Local 226, the Culinary Workers Union.
She is helping to coordinate a statewide campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.
Martin Dupalo was recognized as Veteran of the Month by the Nevada Office of Veterans Services at a presentation at the Grant Sawyer Building on Feb. 21.
Dupalo founded a food recovery program for veterans in Las Vegas, collecting food and distributing it to veterans in need.
He also collected medical supplies that were sent to U.S. military units in Iraq for children and the elderly in the communities in which they were serving.
