MDA gives out achievement honor

Monday, Aug. 18, 2003 | 9:13 a.m.

As part the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual national award program recognizing the personal and professional accomplishments and community service of people with any of the neuromuscular diseases, Dianna Lehmann Smith has been named recipient of MDA's 2003 Personal Achievement Award for Nevada.

Smith, 52, of Boulder City was selected for the honor because of her history of advocacy.

Now retired, Smith has worked at local, state and national levels advocating on behalf of education, the environment, the needs of abused women and children, and disability issues.

Smith's environmental work resulted in her winning the Pfeifferhorn Conservation Leadership Award, presented by a coalition of six environmental groups.

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