Anita Lawler has worked in the banking industry for over twenty years, fifteen of which have been in management and leadership roles. She currently serves as Senior Vice President / Branch Manager at Luther Burbank Savings in Beverly Hills. Anita graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a BA in Psychology. She is an active volunteer with Catholic Charities, Girls Incorporated Santa Barbara, and Planned Parenthood. Anita resides in Altadena with her husband Vince.

Paul Salvaty, a Partner at Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro, LLP, is an experienced trial attorney whose practice is focused on the business disputes with an emphasis on complex commercial litigation, antitrust litigation and class action defense. Paul earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame, and his JD from UC Hastings College of the Law. In addition to serving on the Foothill board, Paul also serves as Vice President of the Board for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. He works extensively on a pro bono basis for numerous organizations, and volunteers at the St. Francis Center Soup Kitchen near downtown LA. Paul lives in Pasadena with his wife Elizabeth and three children.

David Unanue is Senior Vice President of Capital Group Private Client Services. He graduated from Lafayette College, with a BA in Government and Law. He earned his JD from the St. Louis School of Law, Washington University. David previously served for eight years on the Regional Board of Teach for America, and with Volunteer Hand Together, an organization that provides direct aid relief to Haiti. David resides in Pasadena with his wife Laura and their three children.

The Foothill Family Service Board of Directors provides guidance and oversight to further develop the organization in its pursuit to “build brighter futures for children and families”. In helping to raise funds for the agency, Foothill Family is able to continue their devotion in providing excellent mental health and social services for at-risk children and their families.

Foothill Family Service was founded over 85 years ago to provide counseling to at-risk children and families in the San Gabriel Valley. Programs include Mental Health and School-Based Counseling for Children, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment, Early Child Development Programs, Services for Pregnant Teens and their babies, Family Counseling, and Youth Development. Last year, approximately 23,233 children and their families benefited from Foothill Family Service’s life-changing services. For more information, please call (626) 564-1613 or learn more online at www.foothillfamily.org.

“There is a great need to provide quality mental health and family support services to adolescents in Pasadena,” said Jerry Conway, Chief Executive Officer for Aurora Las Encinas Hospital. “Rosemary Children’s Services’ mental health programs and services are in great demand, while financial support for services is challenging during these tough economic times. Rosemary Children’s Services was chosen by Las Encinas Hospital as the recipient of this award because of its long history of caring for the community, which aligns well with Las Encinas history.”

Founded by Dr. James McBride in 1904, Las Encinas Hospital is a California licensed, accredited acute psyhiatric hospital. In 2003, the hospital was purchased by Aurora Behavioral Healthcare, to follow in the path of excellence established by its founders. Las Encinas has 60 medical staff and allied healthcare professionals, 100 nurses, over 300 employees, and 118 beds. Recently, a $100M expansion, including a new 120 bed behavioral health hospital, new medical office buildings, senior independent and assisted living residences was approved by the City of Pasadena. For more information regarding Las Encinas Hospital visit: www.lasencinashospital.com.

Rosemary Children’s Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping abused, abandoned and/or neglected children heal from the past and build the self esteem and skills needed to move towards bright, healthy, and happy futures. Founded by the Pasadena Shakespeare Club in 1920, Rosemary Children’s Services has reached thousands of children and their families and provided compassionate and therapeutic support through the Residential Treatment Program, Foster Family and Adoption Agency, Transitional Housing, Non-Public School, Mental Health Services, Intensive Treatment Foster Care Services, and Therapeutic Behavioral Services.

To learn more about Rosemary Children’s Services or arrange a tour of its Pasadena campus, call (626) 844-3033 or visit the agency’s website, http://www.rosemarychildren.org.

The Church of Scientology in Pasadena staged a public old-time radio-style reading of a Hubbard classic, “Battling Bolto” (“Before there was Captain Kirk, there was Bolto”….) on Jan. 14, featuring seasoned actors from the Church’s Golden Age Theater on Hollywood Blvd.

The crowd wasn’t old timers; even in this day of iPhoned teenagers and blue-toothed adults, there is something about the boundless possibilities and excitement of vintage science fiction that is alluring to all ages.

“Well I think the key word here is “imagination”,” said actor Bob Caso, who performed as, well, every character in the cast besides Battling Bolto. “The audience creates their own movie. They’re creating the pictures of the scenes in their minds and I think that harkens back to the radio days. I think it actually makes any young writer or actor out there more creative to think in those terms.”

RF Daley, who directed the show and portrayed Battling Bolto, agrees.

“Oh, audiences love it!  We have a very very loyal audience in fact the audience is growing both in different demographics as well as numbers all the time,” he said before the show.

Daley and Caso performed with scripts onstage spotlighted in the darkened Chapel looking and sounding exactly the way radio shows like shows were performed before live audiences in the Golden Age of Radio.

Hubbard started his pulp fiction writing career in Encintas, Calif. but jumped coasts in 1934 to settle where the publishing action was (and is): New York City.   His works were so much in demand that at the age of 25 he was named president of the New York Chapter of the American Fiction Guild as he churned out thrillers with titles like “Dead Men Kill” and “The Mad Dog Murder.”

Before the reading, Joni Labaqui, Public Affairs Director for Author Services, Inc., the agent which represents the works of L. Ron Hubbard, said that Hubbard crafted 184 works of fiction which Author Services has dramatized in recordings.

“When we did that project, it was the project of the voice-over industry,” Labaqui said with a laugh. “Jim Dale, who did all the Harry Potters [asked] “How can I be involved?”. Everybody. The voice of Winnie the Pooh .. all the greats!”

In fact, Labaqui says that 250,000 sound effects for used in the recording of the stories.

Her agency also manages the L. Ron Hubbard Golden Age Theater, which is where Hubbard’s stories are routinely staged at 7051 Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles. For more information, see www.GoldenAgeTheater.com.

The Pasadena performance saw community leaders, church members and sci-fi lovers in the beautiful chapel for a show that began with song-singing and led into the dramatic reading.

Eden Stein, President of the Church of Scientology of Pasadena, said “We were thrilled to have the opportunity to share Mr. Hubbard’s rich history with our community by Author Services, his literary agency.   It’s such a great way to spend one’s afternoon in the arts and science fiction.”

The Pasadena Church of Scientology is located at  35 South Raymond Ave. in Old Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 792-7532 or visit  www.scientology-pasadena.org/.