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Symposium On Aging Sets Stage for Senior Advocacy

Keynote speaker Rona Barrett shares her own story By Kimberly Quinn, Noozhawk Special Projects Editor | Published on 11.11.2010 Selma Rubin serves on nine nonprofit boards and her tax return lists her profession as a community activist. Rubin is 95 years old plus change. Every day, Rubin wakes up and tells herself she is going to have an   » Read more
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Rona Barrett to be Honored by Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters

HONORING RONA BARRETT At Our Next Luncheon: NOVEMBER 19, 2010 Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters President Sam Lovullo will present the coveted Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award to noted celebrity journalist and businesswoman Rona Barrett at its November 19th celebrity luncheon. She is one of the best known pioneers and innovators in entertainment reporting and publishing.  In 1986, Rona   » Read more
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SB Symposium on Aging: Advocacy is the Answer

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America’s Bullying Problem

Recently, schoolyard bullying has been making national headlines with the shocking increase in young adult suicides as a result of bullying. These taunts, humiliation, and even physical aggression have long been an unfortunate, consistent occurrence for many kids. Bullying can happen for a number of reasons ranging from teasing about family life, to being gay,   » Read more
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Seniors Can Rock the Vote!

Seniors Can Rock the Vote! It is absolutely crucial that seniors exercise their voice by voting on Tuesday.  If we don’t make our right to vote count, then we wash our hands of the direction our nation is heading in—and be certain that this is a critical time, especially for seniors, to use their voice.  Seniors must   » Read more
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Rona Barrett Speaks at SB Aging Symposium

Rona Barrett Speaks at SB Aging SymposiumR CATHERINE SHEN, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT Rona Barrett is pictured during her talk at Fess Parker’s Doubltree Resort on Monday. STEVE MALONE/NEWS-PRESS   October 26, 2010 5:47 AM    Former entertainment journalist Rona Barrett appeared as the keynote speaker for the “Building a Better Community for Seniors: A Call to Action – 2010 Symposium on   » Read more
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Live Stage Production “RONA BARRETT: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH”

Live Stage Production “RONA BARRETT: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” Benefiting the Rona Barrett Foundation Legendary TV entertainment news reporter and celebrity interviewer, Rona Barrett, is back in the lime light to perform her live one-woman show, Rona Barrett: Nothing But the Truth. The show will feature video clips from some of her most famous interviews, including, John   » Read more
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Symposium on Aging

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Rona in Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH) announcement that it raised over $300,000

Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing Honors Adam Shankman, Rona Barrett and Dr. Tony Mills at 9th Annual Garden Party! Organization Surpasses Fundraising Goal by Generating More Than $300,000 in Community Support! LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH), today announced that it raised over $300,000 at its 9th annual Garden Party held   » Read more
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Why Hiring Seniors Makes Good Business Sense

Why Hiring Seniors Makes Good Business Sense by Rona Barrett When it comes to running a business, companies are always looking for the newest and freshest ideas to stay competitive as well as ways to protect their bottom line. To many employers, finding and hiring young men and women who are new to the job market would   » Read more
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SB Ticket — “Nothing But the Truth”

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The Whole Truth

  Famed Hollywood interviewer returns to stage in Santa Ynez By SaraLloyd Truax, Staff Writer She is doing it again – Rona Barrett is bringing color to a field where before there were only shades of gray. Along the way, she will make you laugh, reminisce and perhaps even touch your heart, if you let her. The woman who   » Read more
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9th Annual GLEH Garden Party

3 October 2010 – Los Angeles, CA – Rona Barrett. 9th Annual GLEH Garden Party held at A Private Residence.
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Rona Barrett: Nothing but the Truth

    Legendary TV entertainment news reporter and celebrity interviewer, Rona Barrett, is back in the limelight to perform her live one-woman show, “Rona Barrett: Nothing But the Truth” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School Little Theatre, 2975 E. Highway 246. The wildly successful show first   » Read more
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Rona Barrett stages one-woman show ‘Nothing But the Truth’ : Proceeds to fund a senior retirement home in Santa Ynez

NORA K. WALLACE, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER October 4, 2010 7:46 AM   Despite decades as an iconic entertainment journalist, despite the publication of her autobiography and magazines bearing her name, despite countless appearances on talk shows and at fundraising events, Rona Barrett wants people to know something more about her life. “I still have so many stories to tell,”   » Read more
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Rona Barrett: The Fame Monster Goes Senior

VIDEO For more than thirty years Rona Barrett reported entertainment. She was the “Perez Hilton/TMZ/ShowbizTonight” of her day. If it mattered she knew it. Gossip became news if it came to us through Rona. She had an uncanny direct-to-the camera delivery that catapulted her across ABC’s line-up as the “go-to” source from all the network’s Tinseltown   » Read more
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Santa Maria Times — “Nothing But the Truth”

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GLEH 9th Annual Garden Party

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Barrett Takes The Stage in Mid-October

BARRETT TAKES THE STAGE IN MID-OCTOBER By SYVJ Staff Rona Barrett’s one-woman show is coming to the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School Theatre at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15-16. “Rona Barrett: Nothing But the Truth” premiered earlier this year in Beverly Hills. The show features video clips from her unscripted interviews with Hollywood favorites such   » Read more
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Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing Proudly Presents the 9th Annual Garden Party & Fundraiser Being Held On October 3rd 2010

Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing Proudly Presents the 9th Annual Garden Party & Fundraiser Being Held On October 3rd 2010! LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The 2010 Garden Party to benefit Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 3 2010 at the Hancock Park historic   » Read more
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