The Tustin
area is home to more than 80,000 people. Nine of those citizens will vie for the right to be called the 2016 Tustin Man and Woman of the Year.
This year’s event will be held at 6 p.m. June 10 at Tustin Ranch Golf Club, 12442 Tustin Ranch Road.
Honorees were selected for volunteerism in causes serving everything from education to the arts to at-risk children to veterans.
Longtime resident Bill Moses, who died 20 years ago, created the award for Man of the Year in 1957 when he was owner and editor of The Tustin News. The first Woman of the Year was added in 1966.
Here are this year’s candidates and who nominated them in parentheses:
• Ivan Bishop (Tustin American Legion Post 227)
• Scott M. Cwiertny (Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts)
• John McGuire (Cherrill Cady, executive director of the Miss Tustin Scholarship Pageant)
• Lindburgh M. McPherson (Tustin Area Historical Society)
• Tony K. Wong (Tustin Community Foundation)
• Laurie Abelove (Tustin Public Schools Foundation)
• Libby Buckley (Tustin Area Woman’s Club and Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts)
• Robin Kelley (Assistance League of Tustin)
• Christine Ruth Uribe (Tustin Community Foundation)
