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R ecipients of T he A ngel F estival A wards |
2010-
2009
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2008
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Randy
Pausch
See
Award
Hanif
Qadir
See
Award
2007
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Malalai
Joya was
silenced in her nativeland, Afghanistan, for calling
her
fellow members of parliment “warlords”, “war
criminals”, “drug dealers”, and “barnyard
animals”. Even though an elected member of
Afghanistan’s National Assembly in 2003,
Joya was thrown out. Notwithstanding death threats
and her house being bombed—making her homeless—she
fights on for others.
See
Award
http://www.malalaijoya.com
2006
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Paul
Gillespie who
inspired the making of the computer program,
The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
which was launched in Toronto, 7 April 2005
and was developed jointly by Microsoft Canada,
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),
and the Toronto Police Service, acted as
an angel would—protective.
See
Award
http://www.paulgillespieconsulting.com
2005
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Simon
Wiesenthal (1908-2005) in
recognition that he acted as an angel for
the murdered because he didn’t want
history to record that the Nazis killed millions
of people and got away with it.
See
Award
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242023
Emmanuel
Ofosu Yeboah, though born
in 1976 with a deformed right leg, in Koforidua,
Ghana, he went from being an orphan street
beggar to a national example of courage by
bicycling with one leg across his country
with a donated bike from the Challenged
Athletes Foundation in Del Mar, California.
His journey changed the way his fellow two
million disabled are treated in Ghana.
See
Award
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0506/muddy_buddy.html
2004
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Czeslaw
Milosz (1911-2004) in recognition
of this Nobel Prize-winning poet's spiritual
discoveries put into words.
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1980/index.html
2003
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Matthew “Mattie” J.
T. Stepanek,
born with a muscular dystrophy disease; author
of Heartsongs.
http://www.mattieonline.com
2002
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2001
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The
Citizens of the United States of America in
recognition of their love of country, with
its freedoms, since the terrorism attack
on America, September 11, 2001.
http://www.familiesofseptember11.org
Nkosi
Johnson (1989-2001) c/o of
his foster mother, Gail Johnson, in recognition
of his innocent dedication as a self-appointed
ambassador for children born HIV-positive
in his native South Africa - a country where
admitting to being the carrier of AIDS was
taboo, until he spoke about his own family
experiences.
http://nkosi.iafrica.com
2000
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Debi
Faris, founder of Garden
of Angels, (Desert Lawn Cemetery in
Calimesa, California) in recognition of the
loving service she is providing for abandoned
dead babies found in trash dumpsters or on
doorsteps.
http://www.gardenofangels.org
Thomas
James (JT) Leyden, former
American skinhead, in recognition of his
regeneration from one who hates to one who
loves.
http://www.strhatetalk.com
1999
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1998
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1997
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Mother
Teresa (1910-1997) c/o Missionaries
of Charity, Calcutta, India. http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html
STRIVE (Support
Training Results In Valuable Employees) East
Harlem Employment Service, New York City.
http://www.strivenewyork.org
1996
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Christopher
Reeve in recognition
of the understanding he has received since
his
paralyzing
accident on 27 May 1995, that we are not
made up solely of our
physical bodies.
http://www.christopherreeve.org
1995
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Nicole
Brown Simpson (1959-1994) c/o The Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable
Foundation.
http://www.nbcf.org
Food
From the ‘Hood,
a natural food products company c/o Crenshaw
High School,
South Central, Los Angeles.
http://www.foodfromthehood.com
The
Rescuers of the Oklahoma City Bombing c/o
Oklahoma City, USA. http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org
For full text of The Angel Festival Awards
listed above, contact: Candace
Frazee
or write
1933 Jefferson Drive, Pasadena, CA 91104
(626) 794-4458
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W here &W hen
THE
14th ANGEL FESTIVAL
The 19th Angel
Festival
is on
Sat. Oct.
6, 2012
The
festival is held in Memorial
Park,
in the City of Sierra
Madre, California
which is in
Los Angeles County
The Angels County!
Call
for more info:
(626)
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Everything and anything to do with angels,
beit religious or
silly fun!
This
festival promises something for everyone,
from the exhibit booths featuring an amazing
diversity of angel products, to fascinating
angel lectures, and fun angelic demonstrations.
Celestial-like
atmosphere
in outdoor park.
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T he A ngel
F estival A wards
xHOW
& WHO
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Candace
Frazee,
Founder & Director of
The Angel Festival
and Madam Chair of Swedenborg Information of Los Angeles
(SILA)
honours "angels" living and/or departed.
 Candace
Frazee
&
her husband,
Steve Lubanski, 2004. Honourees
are chosen based on qualities
which display
angelic behaviour.
Bronze
plaques
"YOU'RE BEING AN ANGEL"
or
"YOU'RE AN ANGEL NOW"
are bestowed.
There
is no cash value
to
The Angel Festival Awards,
for angels do what they do,
serving a use,
not seeking any merit.
Swedenborg
Information
of Los Angeles
is a not-for-profit
educational
service
dedicated to disseminating
the true facts about
Emanuel Swedenborg.
Since 1988.
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