He has served as president of Latino Town Hall for six years and provides strong and gentle leadership for the City’s Latino population, always expressing a keen desire to work with all groups for the sake of one community. Tillie served on the Grand Jury and has attended Ventura College.Bob and Tillie will be honored at the Chamber’s annual meeting on January 24th at the community center.The committee also selected Seeber’s Pharmacy as the Business of the Year, owned by John Skovmand. The Building Beautification Project is the Chevron Station at the corner of Harvard and 10th, owned by Beverly Franks.
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Bob and Tillie Borrego |
Santa Paula Chamber names Citizens of the Year 2003
December 10, 2003
Santa Paula News
Santa Paula’s Citizens of the Year for 2003 are Robert and Tillie Borrego. They were selected by a committee chaired by current Citizen of the Year, Mary Alice Henderson, and four other past recipients of this award.
Bob and Tillie have been married for 56 years and raised four children in Santa Paula schools, Diane, Robert, Marie and Jonathan, and together they have 11 grandchildren.They live in the neighborhood they grew up in at Las Piedras Park. Bob currently serves as the office manager for Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, assisting the priests with the daily attention to the parish.He and Tillie attended Santa Paula High School and his early work as a husband was as a truck driver. He worked in the fields in his youth and gained a sense of responsibility to make the lives of farmworkers more comfortable and safe.The young Bob Borrego worked for Supervisor John Flynn and went on to serve with State Senator Omer Rains, and then Senator Gary Hart as their chief administrative assistants.Bob has always shared his heart and soul with his wife, Tillie, and she became a part of all his work. She supported him in many quiet ways. Bob served with Donna Nelson on the Santa Paula Youth Task Force, director for the Santa Paula Boys and Girls Club, the Santa Paula Elementary School Board, the Santa Paula Planning Commission, the Public Safety Strategy Teams and now the City’s Visioning Committee.
