The nominees for this year’s Man and Woman of the Year were announced Thursday night at a kick off “Paparazzi” party in a private residence.

The annual event serves to recognize volunteers singled out by various nonprofit organizations for their contributions to the community.

A committee of past winners will now take up the task of choosing one man and one woman to be awarded the top honor at a gala dinner, which will take place May 7 at the Valencia Hyatt.
The distinguished nominees and the organizations that nominated them are:

Women

• Becki Basham: Friends of Hart Park
• Mary Ann Colf: Santa Clarita Valley Rotary Club:
• Myrna Condie: College of the Canyons Foundation
• Cheryl Gray: Zonta Club of Santa Clarita
• Linda Hafizi: SCV Senior Center
• Shelly Hann: HMNMH Health Foundation and Betty Ferguson Foundation
• Janice Hoskinson: Child & Family Center Foundation
• Janine Jones: Betty Ferguson Foundation
• Renee Kaehny: The SCV Youth Project
• Gloria Mercado-Fortine: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Anna Ott: Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley
• Nancy Pitchford-Zhe: Heads Up
• Colleen Shaffer: Circle of Hope
• Candy Spahr: American Cancer Society
• Stephanie Weiss: ACTION Parent and Teen Support
• Betty Lou Wiseman: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station
• Dora Zavala: Soroptimists International of Greater SCV

Men

• Roger Basham: Friends of Hart Park
• Wayne Crawford: Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital
• Tom Dierckman: SCV Boys and Girls Club
• Phil Ellis: Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA
• Richard A. Patterson: SCV Facilities Foundation
• Mike Stiles: Gentle Barn
• Steve Sturgeon: Child and Family Center Foundation and Rotary Club of SCV
• Ken Wiseman: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station

To see pictures of the nominees and a full bio of each click here.