Planning Commissioner Julie Baker and “active local volunteer” and Rotary Club of Carlsbad Secretary Ed Scarpelli (pictured right) have been named Carlsbad Citizens of the Year by the City of Carlsbad, according to the North County Times.
Baker, 52, is the former executive director of the Carlsbad Education Foundation, where she helped establish the Kids Are Worth a Million fund-raising campaign for local schools. . . She also is active in the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation, the Carlsbad Friends of the Arts, the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce and the Carlsbad Federation of Republican Women.
Scarpelli, 70, arrived in Carlsbad in 1979 from Wilbraham, Mass., to help establish a builders’ lending division at a mortgage company. He originally trained as a teacher and taught industrial arts for 13 years in New York state before taking a sales job that would send him to Europe for several years.
The awards ceremony, which was scheduled for October 23 has been rescheduled for November 13 at 4 PM at City Hall located at 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive.
[Link: North County Times]
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