Twenty-three outstanding community volunteers have been nominated by local nonprofit organizations to be honored at the annual Women in Service Celebration sponsored by Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley. This year’s event is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, at Robinson Ranch Golf Clubhouse, and tickets are now available for members of the nominating organization or friends of the nominees who would like to attend in support of the honorees.

Carmen Sarro

This year’s nominees, and the organization which nominated each of them, include, Jill Bondy, Circle of Hope; Chris Bratzel, LARC Ranch; Charlotte Briggs, Domestic Violence Center; Jill Broline, Assistance League; Mary Ann Colf, Samuel Dixon Family Health; Rebecca Corona-Nickerson, American Association of University Women; and Sharon Dawson, Help the Children.

Also: Rebecca DeLuca, JCI Santa Clarita; Sue Endress, Rotary Club; Amanda Etcheverry, Soroptomist International of SCV; Kim Goldman, SCV Youth Project; Terry Kanowsky, SCV Scholarship Foundation; Jessica Lee, Sheriff’s Youth Foundation; Mitzi Like, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Foundation; Delaney Marbach, Boys & Girls Club.

Also: Patti Massman Neuwirth, Children of the Night; Brenda Neilson, Michael Hoefflin Foundation; Linda Pippin, SCV Senior Center; Michelle Roberts, Girl Scouts of Greater L.A.; Deborah Rocha, Straightening Reins; Diana Sevanian, American Cancer Society; Phillis Stacy-Brooks, Mother Fighting for Others; and Doris Marie Zimmer, College of the Canyons Foundation.

The April 9 event includes a plated lunch, prize drawings, a marketplace featuring vendors whose merchandise supports women’s causes, and presentation of all 23 nominees and their nominating organizations. At the end of the program, one of the honorees will be named the 2016 Carmen Sarro Community Service Award winner, representing outstanding service to her organization, to the community as a whole, and to Zonta’s goal of improving the lives of women and girls.

The award is named for Carmen Sarro, a longtime Zonta member whose wide range of community service epitomized the well-rounded community volunteer. Her daughter, Christine Sexton, will make the presentation in honor of her late mother.

Tickets to the event are $45 per person if postmarked and paid before March 25, and $50 thereafter. All nominees are guests of Zonta. Payment can be made online at www.scvzonta.org or by a check made payable to Zonta Club of SCV Foundation and mailed to event co-chair Mary Ree at the address on the reservation form. Further information can be obtained on the Zonta website at http://scvzonta.org/calendar/public_events.php.