A Busy Month

By Joel Bock, CPA

September was filled with a variety of events that allowed our chapter to give back to the community in which we live.

Local CalCPA members participated in the United Way of Kern County’s Day of Caring 2009 Sept. 12. The event unites hundreds of volunteers from various organizations to assist nonprofit agencies with tasks too large or time consuming for them to accomplish on their own. Our group was assigned to assist Project Linus as volunteer “blanketeers” and helped make blankets and afghans.

Project Linus provides love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans. The firm with the most participants in the Day of Caring—Daniells Phillips Vaughan & Bock—will enjoy a pizza party courtesy of CalCPA. Many thanks to all those who participated!

Many local accounting professionals, college professors and college students participated in our annual Student Night Sept. 30. This year’s event was a big success with the largest student attendance in recent years. The festivities for the evening included the chapter’s scholarship award presentations. Congratulations to Les Watts Memorial Scholarship recipients Joel Sandoval, Grecia Barrera and Toyosi Obafemi!

A first for this year’s Student Night was the presentation of the YEP of the Year Award, which went to Anastasia Antonova of CBIZ/Mayer Hoffman McCann!

I’d like to thank the following firms for sponsoring Student Night: Brown Armstrong, Barbich Hooper King Dill Hoffman, CBIZ/Mayer Hoffman McCann, Fisher Keathley & Ross, and Daniells Phillips Vaughan & Bock. Also, special thanks to the evening’s speaker, CalCPA Chair Andrea Cope, and to our program associate Julie Jameson and program director Gary Hammond for helping facilitate the event.

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