By Chris Murphy
Congratulations to the Citizen of the Year Lou Friedman!
It was a wonderful evening at the American Legion Post 74 event recognizing the 75th Annual award at the Stanislaus Veteran Center. It was a great community audience that celebrated Lou Friedman, Veteran of the Year, former Mayor and Navy veteran Garrad Marsh and Volunteer of the Year, Christina Kenny, Modesto CHAT team. Curtis Varvel received the Legionnaire of the Year Award. Area elected officials were there to celebrate these amazing people and last year’s recipient Evan Porges lead the event including Supervisor Mani Grewal, Modesto City Councilpersons Nick Bavarro, Rosa Escutia-Braaton, and previous Citizen of the Year recipient Jeremiah Williams and the Chief of Police, Brandon Gillespie. It is important for our community to recognize community accomplishments. These people go above and beyond to make Modesto better.
As a former recipient of this award in 2019, it is very humbling and wonderful to be amongst these honorees and it was good to gather with former recipients to celebrate this year’s inductees. Thank you to all Veterans in our community, the American Legion post 74 and all that serve on our front lines. Modesto has a great service and volunteer community that really makes our city special.
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