King and queen of the Mardi Gras Ball


REGAL RULERS—John Bradley and June Glasmeier are this year’s royalty for Community Conscience’s largest fundraiser. They were chosen due to their exemplary community service.

REGAL RULERS—John Bradley and June Glasmeier are this year’s royalty for Community Conscience’s largest fundraiser. They were chosen due to their exemplary community service.

Community Conscience has selected John Bradley and June Glasmeier as king and queen of the 28th annual Mardi Gras Ball, which will take place Sat., Feb. 29 at the Hyatt Regency Westlake Hotel.

Community Conscience’s largest fundraiser, this year’s ball will include a champagne reception, dinner, live music, dancing and both silent and live auctions. Co-chairs are Justin Barkhuff and Susan Kelly.

With the proceeds from the ball and other donations, Community Conscience provides office space rent-free in the Human Services Center to 13 local nonprofits.

Each year Community Conscience honors two individuals for their exemplary community service.

Bradley has served local nonprofits for many years. He is on the board of the Discovery Center for Science and Technology and is the finance chair.

He has served the Westlakers as scholarship chair and Junior Achievement of Southern California as a board member.

He is a board member and treasurer of the Southeast Ventura County YMCA. In 2018, the YMCA gave Bradley and his wife, Karen, the Joel and Frances Mc- Crea Community Service Award for volunteering their time and support on behalf of the Y.

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John Bradley also has supported the local performing arts scene on the Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts executive committee and as treasurer. He was previously vice chair of the city’s Cultural Affairs Commission.

Bradley also applies his professional abilities to the IRS’ Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which provides free tax return preparation services to lower-income individuals. For 42 years he was a volunteer legal and tax advisor to the Conejo Free Clinic.

Bradley has been an active member of the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club since 2010. He has served on the board of directors and as treasurer and has been chosen as the club’s 2020-21 president-elect.

He retired from Rocketdyne as vice president of finance/CFO and is currently a local attorney and business consultant.

He and his wife, a retired special education teacher, have lived in the Conejo Valley since 1974, and have two adult sons and five grandchildren.

Glasmeier has volunteered with many organizations in the Conejo Valley for over 35 years.

She retired from the Community

Conscience board of trustees in December 2019 after serving for more than 20 years.

She has held various positions with Community Conscience, including president, secretary and a member of the Mardi Gras Ball planning committee and co-chair. Glasmeier also served as a board member for the Stagecoach Inn Museum Foundation and was a member of the committee that planned the foundation’s fundraisers.

She was also a board member of the Conejo Valley Historical Society and secretary on the executive board. She served on the Triunfo Ball Planning Committee.

She was a member of the board of trustees of the Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation from 2003 through 2015. Also, she was the founding chair of the Senior Congress, which she chaired for five years, and continues to serve on the planning committee.

As an Assemblymember of the California Senior Legislature, she authored a bill that made notaries mandated reporters of elder financial abuse.

She has also been a member of the Conejo Senior Volunteer Program Advisory Board, Thousand Oaks Council on Aging, the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging Advisory Council, and the Senior Adult Master Plan Advisory Committee.

Glasmeier served as a member and president of the Oakleaf Music Festival. She was named Doña Triunfo of the Conejo Valley Historical Society’s La Fiesta del Triunfo in 2008.

She also received the Hamm Award from the Community Leaders Association at Cal Lutheran University for her volunteer work and was named Senior of the Year by the City of Thousand Oaks Council on Aging.

For more information or to buy a ball ticket, call Community Conscience at (805) 494-3543 or click the “Mardi Gras Ball” tab at communityconscience.org.