Late Salem native to receive award

Staff report

BOARDMAN

A Salem native will be honored at the Oct. 14 Valley Legacy Awards luncheon as the first to receive a new award for service to the community.

The late Bruce Gordon will be remembered with the first Cliff Johnson Memorial Valley Legacy Award for Timeless Service to the Community.

Lynn Miller, corporate marketing director for Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Retirement Services, Inc., said the Valley Legacy committee chose Gordon for the award.

She said the award was created “to honor the memory of those people who were so integrally involved in their community but no longer with us.”

Gordon is best known for his involvement as former president and emeritus director of the Better Business Bureau of Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties; past president and emeritus trustee of the Butler Institute of American Art; past president of Copeland Oaks, Crandall Medical Center, Grandview Cemetery, Ohio Water Quality Association, Salem Board of Education and The Rotary Club of Salem.

He was a founding member and past chairman of the Kent State University Salem Campus Advisory Committee, a past board member of the Youngstown Symphony and vice president of the Salem Community Foundation.

Gordon graduated from Salem High School and Dennison University and served in the Air Force for three years before going to work at Gordon Brothers Inc. in Salem for more than 50 years.

Gordon’s family will accept the award on his behalf. The luncheon will be at noon at Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman and is open to the public.

Reservations should be made by calling Miller at 330-530-4038, ext. 2057.