Marjaree Mason Center honors top 10 professional women

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wednesday, The Marjaree Mason Center hosted its yearly Top Ten Professional Women and Leading Business awards.

More than a 1000 radical filled the Fresno Convention Center downtown to grant 10 exceptional women and a concern portion recognizing the enactment that inactive needs to beryllium done.

"It's our biggest lawsuit of the twelvemonth and immoderate nett proceeds from this lawsuit get utilized to enactment our situation response, our 24/7 assistance line, and exigency structure which truly critically needs the astir magnitude of backing each azygous year," said Nicole Linder, enforcement manager of the Marjaree Mason Center.

The assemblage heard from keynote speakers Danielle and Mark Herzlich successful a speech moderated by erstwhile Fresno State and NFL backmost David Carr.

Danielle shared her ain communicative of home unit earlier gathering her hubby and Mark spoke astir his inspirational travel to play shot for the New York Giants, aft beating a uncommon signifier of cancer.

Our ain Action News Anchor Graciela Moreno emceed the ceremony.

Among the apical 10 honorees was Margarita Rocha.

"Former honorees person said to maine 'lean backmost and bask the ride' and truthful that's what I'm doing today. I'm successful the infinitesimal of this honor," said Rocha.

Rocha has served arsenic enforcement manager of Centro La Familia for respective years, helping Valley families get captious resources.

"We bash a batch of enactment successful the country of home unit and truthful I admit the information that our organization, connected behalf of myself, is being recognized arsenic good for the enactment that we do," said Rocha.

The enactment of the Marjaree Mason Center is never-ending. Before the extremity of the twelvemonth it's acceptable to unfastened a caller assets center that's nether operation successful Northwest Fresno. It volition run astir the timepiece to enactment survivors utilizing the 24/7 situation effect hotline and a drop-in center.

The enactment inactive needs much backing to get the task crossed the decorativeness enactment and it's getting immoderate help.

"We person an further lucifer arsenic we did past year, a antithetic enactment is going to lucifer up to a cardinal dollars from Nov 18-Dec 1 truthful we're conscionable going to commune and anticipation the assemblage rallies astir america to implicit the backing needed," said Linder.

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