The San Diego Chamber of Commerce is celebrating San Diego’s leadership.

On Sept. 18, LEAD San Diego brought together business, community and elected leaders for its 23rd annual Visionary Awards. Six awards were given for honorees’ contributions to positive changes in the community and leading San Diego into the future.

Among those recognized was Jim Gruny, a community liaison officer and former Marine. With three decades of service and more than twenty moves with the Marine Corps, Gruny said he found himself at a crossroads in 2019.

“During 30 years of active duty service in the Marine Corps my family and I had over 20 addresses,” Gruny said. “We moved quite a bit and never had the opportunity to develop deep ties or become productive members of a community in which we lived and worked

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