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Women Who Mean Business Event Set

It’s going to be a really big show. Aug. 31 is the deadline to nominate candidates for the annual Women Who Mean Business Awards sponsored by the Business Journal! The event, set for Oct. 27, recognizes San Diego’s top women business leaders, who are selected for their achievements and contributions to the community. Contact April Edelston at aedelston@sdbj.com for details on how to nominate. She’s good for tickets to the event, too Chris Van Gorder, Scripps Health’s top guy, is on Modern Healthcare magazine’s annual ranking of the nation’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare, published Aug. 24. It’s the third straight year on the list for Van Gorder. And here’s an eyepopper! He’s the only San Diego hospital administrator to make the list since its inception in 2002 Local marketing guru Sara Wilensky and husband Anthony Napoli, a real estate broker who specializes in Little Italy properties, are again co-chairing the Urban Campout, an annual Girl Scouts fundraiser set for Sept. 11, in which the two will be auctioning three paid internships offered by three of the region’s best and brightest companies. Just to show how valued the internships are, last year the nonprofit agency auctioned just one paid internship offered by Qualcomm, which went for a cool $11,000 And while we’re on the subject of giving back to the community, Poway’s Dream Dinners store, which has hosted more than 15 community-based food packing events during the past few years, is again helping to feed the hungry in Tanzania. The local franchise, which has organized the packing of 1.2 million meals to feed the poor in an African nation considered the world’s third hungriest, is going to do it again. Franchise owner Phil Harris is organizing his next packing event for Sept. 20. And what a guy! He’s personally led five teams to Tanzania to help distribute meals to homeless kids … Kid kudos! Thirteen-year-old Keri Jucha, a former patient at Rady Children’s Hospital, made a special delivery to the hospital Aug. 26. The La Costa lady raised $7,000 as part of her bat mitzvah project and bought 10 laptops and five DVD players for patients at the hospital. In August 2006, Keri was hospitalized with a brain abscess as a result of a sinus infection. While there, she was given beads that she later turned into a fundraising project by beading more than 100 necklaces and bracelets. She sold them online and raised $8,000 for the hospital Timeout! Horton Plaza’s George Carter Jessop Jewelers kicked off a 30-day refurbishment of the 100-year-old Jessop’s clock on Aug. 24. Jim Jessop, owner of George Carter Jessop (who was the great-grandfather of the clock builder), is anxious to get his industrial-strength timepiece ticking again. It was last refurbished in 1985 when it was moved to Horton Plaza, but stopped running several years ago. It’s a painstaking effort, involving expert clock makers and local painters, reports Jim. Seeya!


Tom York writes the SDBJ Insider column.

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