The Board Room for Sept. 28

Achievements

▪ Annette Bushman was the top-producing insurance agent in August for Port Royal Insurance Services.

▪ Joni Davis was the top-producing loan officer in August at Royal Charter Mortgage.

▪ London Properties announced company honors for August: Robert Price, employee of the month; Tracy De Jong, advocate of the month; Donna Pride Team, top listings team; Debbie Henes Team, top sales team; Phil May, individual top sales; and Michael Garabedian, individual top listings.

Announcements

▪ Participants for Fresno County Farm Bureau's Future Advocates for Agriculture Concerned about Tomorrow Development Class XIII for 2015-16 have been announced. They are: Ashley Carvajal (John Deere Company), Kathy Curtice (Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office), Joe Denham (Denham Resources), Erin Goldfarb (Baker Peterson Franklin, CPA), Christopher McGlothlin (California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations and Western Agricultural Processors Association), Ed Nikssarian (Allied Grape Growers), Kathie Reid-Bevington (Jordan College at Fresno State), Michael Rivera (California State Assembly, 31st District), Nick Rocca (Rocca Ranches), Nicole Schafer (Carter & Co. Ag Communications), Amy Sihto (El Dorado Almonds LLC), Rob Terry (Fresno Council of Governments), Geoffrey Thurner (Jordan College at Fresno State), Jill Wagner (Idea-Emporium), Jace White (Sorensen Farms & Sorensen Harvesting LLC) and Justin Witte (Pacific Gas & Electric Company).

▪ March of Dimes, Central Valley Division, added attorney Amanda G. Hebesha to its board of directors. She is a partner in the law firm of Tucker Chiu Hebesha Seymour PC.

▪ Tulare Regional Medical Center is among a select group of hospitals and transplant centers nationwide recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for reaching gold, silver, or bronze levels of achievement by conducting activities that promoted enrollment in state organ donor registries. The hospital earned points for each activity implemented during Phase IV of the campaign, between Aug. 1, 2014, and April 30, 2015, and was awarded Silver Recognition by HRSA.

▪ The Rotary Club of Fresno welcomed Martha Elizabeth Hernandez, owner of Martha Elizabeth Political Consultant, Christina M. Montanez, head of school/principal of Kepler Neighborhood School, and Ashley E. Webster, audience development/circulation manager for The Business Journal, as new members.

Awards

▪ The following San Joaquin Valley Blueprint Awards will be presented by the Community and Regional Planning Center at the 11th annual San Joaquin Valley Fall Policy Conference on Oct. 8 at Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite. One of the Downtown Revitalization Project Awards of Excellence will go to Granville Homes (Fresno) project Brio on Broadway. The Transportation Enhancement Projects Award of Excellence will go to the City of Clovis for Dry Creek Trailhead and the Award of Merit to Caltrans for the Bradley Overhead on Highway 140 (Merced).

▪ EYE-Q Vision Care was honored with a Bronze Telly Award in the 36th Annual Telly Awards for its “Life in Focus” television commercial. EYE-Q was selected from the nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries.

Donations

▪ The Rotary Club of Fresno awarded $6,835.82 to the Central California Adaptive Sports Center (CCASC) for a recumbent, rear-suspension, leg-powered adaptive mountain bike for use by persons with disabilities in CCASC’s ongoing programs. This bicycle is convertible for both summer (on trails and sand) and winter (on snow) use.

New Faces

▪ John Suzuki joined the sales department at James Hendricks and Associates Inc.

▪ Kaiser Permanente Fresno added the following physicians: Michael Azevedo and Sandip Madhav, physical medicine; Reimarie Pineda and Marta Nalbandyan, internal medicine; and Siva Jasti and Michael Cody, radiology.

▪ Alberto Ruvalcaba joined Visalia Medical Clinic’s team of family medicine physicians. He has been in practice since 2011, after completion of his residency and internship at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, and Selma Hospital in Selma.

▪ Realty Concepts added the following associates in residential sales: Jo Souza and Stephanie Greenberg, Fresno office; and Tina Larson, Misty White, Sheri Bush and Derek Vagim, Clovis office.

▪ London Properties hired the following to join its residential sales staff: Rosa Medina-Edwards and Melissa Nelson, Fresno office; and Clara Horn, Amber Castro, Jessica Arthur and Angela Hansken, Clovis office.

▪ Jim Wood has joined Der Manouel Insurance Group as director of marketing.

This story was originally published September 27, 2015 at 7:02 AM with the headline "The Board Room for Sept. 28."