NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF WESTCHESTER / PLAYA Working together to improve our communities! Neighborhood Councils exist to: • give neighborhoods greater influence on decisions made by local government • make government more responsive to local communities • unite the local community to improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods Honoring Denny Schneider – the Neighborhood Council of Westchester / Playa’s 2017 Star of the Neighborhood Congratulations to longtime Westchester resident Denny continued for 20 years involvement with Schneider for being selected as the 2017 Star of the at Westchester High organizations as Neighborhood. The award is designed to honor those in School and would Hyperion Water our community who give back to their neighbors without progress to negotiating Treatment Plant, fanfare and may otherwise go unnoticed. a landmark 2016 Asthma and Allergy settlement agreement Association and Denny will be recognized in the annual Fourth of July with Los Angeles SCAQMD to improve Parade and again at an upcoming Neighborhood Council International Airport the environment and board meeting. (LAX) to not move the everyone’s quality of north runway closer life. A dedicated community advocate for Westchester/Playa to homes, schools, del Rey, Denny’s goal has always been to keep the businesses and Denny has been community as a great place to live, work and raise a family. churches. Denny was recognized by the a founder and 14-year California PTSA, Denny and his wife, Nan, bought their home in board member of the Kiwanis, and Westchester in 1973 where they raised their two children Neighborhood Council California Air Force and began four decades of community service. of Westchester/ Association, the Los Playa, founder and past President of the Westchester Angeles City Council, LA County Supervisor Don Knabe, Denny and Nan’s volunteering began as a founding family Neighbors Association (WNA), Member of the Metro Train Assemblyman Ted Lieu, Congresswoman Jane Harman, for Westside Neighborhood School and tournament chair Leadership Council and he had served on the LAX North Congresswoman Maxine Waters and received a Lifetime of the Westchester Tennis Club. Their volunteer activities Airfield Study Committee. Currently, Denny serves as Service Award from President George W. Bush. In President of the Alliance for a Regional Solution 2013, Denny was presented with the Howard Drollinger to Airport Congestion (ARSAC), Chair of the Achievement Award by the Drollinger Family Charitable LAX/Community Noise Roundtable, Member of Foundation at the Westchester Family YMCA’s “Kids Need DWP One Water LA, Executive Board Member Heroes” luncheon. of Valley VOTE, Secretary of the 63rd Assembly District Republican Central Committee, a board Denny accepts the Neighborhood Council of Westchester/ member for the LAX Kiwanis Club and an Playa’s “Star of the Neighborhood” award in memory of his active member of the LAX Coastal Chamber of beloved wife Nan who had passed away in 2013 after a Commerce and the South Bay Lincoln Club. valiant 13-year battle with cancer. Professionally, Denny worked in the aerospace “There is perhaps no one who has left a more indelible industry as a division staff scientist and a mark on our community than Denny Schneider,” said programs manager overseeing multi-million NCWP President Cyndi Hench. “He is an incredible dollar programs. Denny has both technical and person, and I am honored to recognize him on behalf business degrees. Concurrently, he and his of the Neighborhood Council and the entire community. wife built a 1,000-person network marketing Denny, thank you for all you have done to make organization as well as strong community Westchester a better place!” Next Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa Monthly Board Meeting: 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 1 in the Community Room at 7166 W. Manchester Ave. (at Lincoln Blvd.), in Westchester www.ncwpdr.org • 213.473.7023.