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Friday, February 24, 2012
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Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the 40th Annual BUSINESS OUTLOOK CONFERENCE on Friday, February 24, 2012 at the AV Fairgrounds. Call our office at 661-942-9581 and reserve your seat for only $150 ($135 AVBOT member price) or $1200 for a table of 8 ($1080 member price). Your ticket includes a continental breakfast, buffet lunch and all the networking that you can fit in between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm.
Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Leonard will replace NBA Basketball Star Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the keynoter for the Business Outlook Conference because Johnson cancelled due to the NBA rescheduling the all star game and his contractual obligations with ESPN. The Antelope Valley Board of Trade’s 40th annual conference is planned at 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, at the Poppy Pavilion at the AV Fairgrounds.
“Leonard is one of the legendary sports icons of the 20th century whose very name epitomizes boxing and conjures the image of a champion. He recently made an appearance on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and he was host and mentor of the critically-acclaimed show, ‘The Contender’ on ESPN,” said Drew Mercy, Chairman of the annual Antelope Valley of Trade Conference.
Leonard recently served as a choreographer on the fight scenes for the hit movie “Real Steel” which premiered in October 2011. He wrote his autobiography entitled The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring” published in 2011.
After winning a gold medal in boxing at the 1976 Olympic games, he turned professional to help his family defer mounting medical bills incurred because of his father’s illness. During his twenty-year professional career, Leonard also won world titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight divisions. He was the first boxer to win world titles in five different weight classes, a record that stands to this day.
Leonard’s sincere, charismatic personality coupled with his ring experience led to a successful career as a television broadcaster for NBC, ABC, HBO and ESPN. In addition, his celebrity status fostered commercial endorsement relationships with numerous companies including EA Sports, Vartec Telecom, Track Inc., Ford, Carnation, 7-Up, Nabisco, Coca-Cola and Revlon. “Board President Rhonda Nelson says, “I am looking forward to hearing what this world class athlete has to say. He’s energetic and charismatic – a winning combination.”
Other featured speakers at the conference will be Dr. Mark Schniepp, director of the California Economic Forecast; Joe Brennan, Production Operations Director for The Spaceship Company; and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr.
Individual tickets are $150 each or $1,200 for a table of eight, with members receiving a 10% discount. For tickets contact the AV Board of Trade office at 661-942-9581 or e-mail teri@avbot.org.
“THE BIG FIGHT: My Life In and Out of the Ring” (June 2011) – autobiography, SUGAR RAY LEONARD 
In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself.
Sugar Ray Leonard’s brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle with depression, rage, addiction, and greed.
Coming from a tumultuous, impoverished household and a dangerous neighborhood on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, Sugar Ray Leonard rose swiftly and skillfully through the ranks of amateur boxing-and eventually went on to win a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics. With an extremely ill father and no endorsement deals, Leonard decided to go pro.
The Big Fight takes readers behind the scenes of a notoriously corrupt sport and chronicles the evolution of a champion, as Leonard prepares for the greatest fights of his life-against Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, and Wilfred Benitez. At the same time Leonard fearlessly reveals his own contradictions and compulsions, his infidelity, and alcohol and cocaine abuse.
With honesty, humor, and hard-won perspective, Leonard comes to terms with both triumph and struggle-and presents a gripping portrait of remarkable strength, courage, and resilience, both in and out of the ring.
Click on the link below for a full bio of SUGAR RAY LEONARD:
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A highlight of the 2012 Antelope Valley Business Outlook Conference will be the presentation of the ”Antelope Valley Businessperson of the Year” Award. A joint collaboration of the Antelope Board of the Trade, the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance and the Antelope Valley Press, this award is given out annually to one of the region’s most accomplished business leaders.
Click here for an application for Businessperson of the Year 2012 (**please note: Applications for this year’s Business Person of the Year are now closed)
The Environmental Committee was invited for a tour of the Rio Tinto – US Borax mine in Boron. Wagons and mules were the original method of transporting the minerals.
(below) Bob Deal briefed us on the history of the mine as well as the minerals that are extracted 364 days (and nights) a year. (left to right: Tom Barnes, Robert Vanderstok, Richard Caulkins, Sarah Tyndall and Scott Cummings)
After a quick video, we were equipped with safety glasses, hard hats and steel toed shoes and boarded two buses to travel into the mine.
We were able to stand next to the haulers while Richard Caulkins, Committee Chair, and Sarah Tyndall, Field Rep for Assemblyman Knight drew straws and went for a wild ride on one.
We were also able to get closer than most to a shovel.
Tours like these are enjoyable and informative and a privilege of AVBOT membership.
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All Board !! : The Transportation Committee took its Committee on the road…well actually the rail, on Wednesday, August 17th, via the Metrolink to Union Station. Supervisor Antonovich greeted us as we entered Union Station. Then Annie with L.A.Conservancy gave us an informative tour of Union Station. On the way to lunch we paid a visit to the oldest Fire Station in Los Angeles, Fire Station 1, after which we made a quick stop to the Chinese American Museum. Our lunch at one of the original eateries on Olvera Street, La Golondria, was wonderful. This is an example of the informative and fun “behind-the-scenes” tours you will be included on as a member of AV Board of Trade. Are you a member? Click on Membership Application…it’s that easy.
Thank you Brent Rush and Rio Tinto for your box seats at Jethawks Stadium
Saturday, August 13th, was Aerospace Night at Jethawks Stadium. Sponsored by Mojave Air & Space Port with a Fred Haise (former Apollo 13 Astronaut and Commander of the Enterprise) bobble head doll and a fly over by an F-18.Thank you Rio Tinto ( Brent Rush, Bob & Michelle Deal)…for hosting AVBOT at your skybox…and the royal treatment.
Aerospace Night @ Jethawks Stadium - August 13th...
New Release Date for 2nd Draft
The Commission voted to push back the release of the second round of draft maps to Thursday, July 14th.
June 24, 2011, Last Call for Public Testimony before June 28th Deadline
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission is asking the public to submit public testimony on its first round of draft Congressional, legislative and Board of Equalization district maps by 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 28th. The public can submit written testimony by e-mail to votersfirstact@crc.ca.gov, or by fax to 916-651-5711.
The California Redistricting Commission continues to draw lines with their first draft map released Friday, June 10th….and here they are:
Redistricting – June 10 – 1st draft
Starting next week the commission will begin a second round of public outreach hearings that can be expected to be wildly contentious.
A second draft of maps will be released on July 7, and third draft of maps will be released July 28 all culminating to the final certification of maps on August 15.
The commission must obtain a super-majority of 9 of the 14 members in order approve the final redistricting plans. This is made tougher by the requirement that they also obtain majorities of each subset: 3 of 5 Republicans, 3 of 5 Democrats, and 3 of 4 Decline to State commissioners.
Go to the website and watch the process live at : www.wedrawthelines.ca.gov
Here is our proposal and what we think a “community of interest” is:
Rhonda Nelson helps at Grace Resource Center
