My Usher at Pasadena Playhouse: Mayor Kovacic

Sunday night at the Pasadena Playhouse we were surprised to run into Arcadia and his wife, Barb, volunteering as ushers. They’ve been doing it for years, even though they both continue to work full-time jobs. Mayor Kovacic’s theme this year is Volunteerism, and this was yet another example that he walks the walk.

Ushering is just one of the many volunteer efforts he does. The Constitution team he helps coach just won the state championship again and will be heading to Washington to try to win another national championship from April 27-May 1. (If you want to help fund the team’s trip  and the We the People Program, click here and be sure to note “National Finals–California” as the purpose of your donation.)

Mayor Kovacic isn’t the only one who spends an unusual amount of time volunteering in Arcadia. Even most of his fellow candidates for City Council in the current election donate their time.

Sho Tay is a volunteer board member on everything from the Boy Scouts and the Masons to the and .

Mary Dougherty spends a lot of time on research and phone calls as co-chair of the monthly Government Affairs Forum and is an active participant in the Assistance League of Arcadia.

John Wuo has headed a long list of organizations from the Methodist Hospital Foundation and regional American Cancer Society to the Arcadia Educational Foundation and

And Henry Nunez has been a volunteer chairman of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership and President of the Arcadia Association of Realtors, among other things.

This just scratches the surface of what all these people have contributed, and these are but five of the hundreds of people in Arcadia who devote their free time to making Arcadia such a terrific community. After all, where else would the Mayor show you to your theatre seat?

Read more by Scott Hettrick at ArcadiasBest.com.

Hettrick's City Views blog is not intended to reflect any position of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, where he is Executive Director.