Altadena-based Miller Hawkins Productions Event Coordinators was honored as "California Small Business of the Year" for District 44.   MHPevents principals Inger Miller and Jill Hawkins received this special recognition from  Assemblyman Anthony Portantino. This acknowledgement applauded a single district –based small business for exemplifying the contributions of the California’s 3.7 million small business owners to the California economy.

The award was announced May 26 at the annual California Small Business Day in Sacramento.

“We are honored to have been selected for this award; and we thank Assemblyman Anthony Portantino for this recognition. We are also grateful to all of our clients that allow us to do what we love,” said Miller and Hawkins.

“This is a special event when government, business, associations and community come together to honor the small business contributions of innovation, job creation and economic growth to the State of California,” said Betty Jo Toccoli, President of the California Small Business Association, on behalf of the two-dozen small business organizations hosting the event.

sent this way by Monica Hubbard, who's got to be two people.

UPDATE 5/29:  PSN has a nice piece on them as well.