Long-time women`s advocate and volunteer named recipient of

Winter/Spring 2013
News from
the Women’s Resource Center
Long-time women’s advocate
and volunteer named recipient
of 2013 Extraordinary Woman Award
Enid Brodsky to be honored
at annual luncheon on March 15
A long-time business
consultant and advocate for
women has been selected
as the 2013 recipient of the
Women’s Resource Center’s
Extraordinary Woman
Brodsky
Award.
Enid Brodsky, a former Women’s
Resource Center board member who
continues to volunteer for a number of
Center programs, will be honored at the
annual Extraordinary Woman Award
Luncheon scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on
Friday, March 15, at the Henry Strater
Theater. A no-host bar opens at 11 a.m.
Tickets are $15 and are available by
calling the Center at 247-1242 or purchasing them online at wrcdurango.org.
A 50-cent handling fee will be charged
for online purchases. Luncheon will include an African-inspired, gluten-free
salad with grilled Mahi Mahi, white cab-
bage, grated carrots, grated
fresh coconut, black pepper,
julienned apples and a light
mayonnaise dressing; coffee, tea and
dessert.
The Extraordinary Woman Award
honors a woman who demonstrates
leadership and is steadfastly devoted
in her efforts to effect positive change
in the community; is an inspiring role
model for women in the community,
and works tirelessly to advance
women’s rights, equality and self-sufficiency in La Plata County.
“Enid Brodksy perfectly embodies
those qualities,” said WRC Executive
Director Liz Mora. “We are proud to
honor her accomplishments this year.”
Ms. Brodsky has worked as an independent business consultant with
her husband, Herb Brodsky, since
1979. They moved to Durango in
1987, and Ms. Brodsky immediately
immersed herself in volunteer work.
Wonder Women producer
to be keynote speaker
for annual luncheon
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kel- Kelcey Edwards will
cey Edwards will bring
discuss how superher latest work, Wonheroines have inspired
der Women: The Unwomen to slay their
told Story of
American Superown dragons and not
heroines, to Durango,
wait to be rescued by
on March 14 as part of
others.
this year’s Women’s History Month activities.
Presented by:
She also will be the
keynote speaker for the
annual Extraordinary Woman Awards Luncheon on
March 15.
Supported by Presenting Sponsor Alpine
Bank, Women’s History Month will offer a unique
series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops to focus attention on the issues that impact
the success of women and girls in society today.
This year’s theme, Women Inspiring Innovation
Through Imagination – Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,
See Award, Page 4
See Wonder Women, Page 4
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Note from the Director
Girls learn you’re never too young to be role models
By Liz Mora
Executive Director
I recently asked my 7-year-old daughter, now a second-grader at Park Elementary, if she had anyone she respected and
liked as a role model.
I had expected her to name her teacher
or principal. Instead, she named a fourthgrader, “because she’s always nice to me
and my friends,” she told me.
That’s when it dawned on me. Girls are
never too young to become role models for
other girls. And that’s the message we tried
to convey to the 30 fourth- and fifth-grade
girls who attended our first-ever Get Your
Girl Power Conference on Saturday, Feb. 9.
Funded by a generous grant from the
White Elephant Foundation, the one-day
conference for fourth- and fifth-grade girls
and their parents is based on our successful
Girls to Women Conference for eighth-grade
At the end of the Get Your Girl Power Conference, the girls made their version of a Tibetan
prayer flag to reflect upon what they’d learned
during the day.
girls. Our experiences with
“I just want to
Girls to Women have
taught us that we need to
thank the
start planting the seeds of
Women’s Resource
self-empowerment earlier
Center and Girl
than eighth grade.
We chose to reach out Scouts for putting
to fourth and fifth grades,
on this [conferbecause that’s the time
ence]. I would not have known how to defend
when young girls start
myself or just be myself.”
looking toward their peers
and media for their identi– Needham Elementary Fourth-Grader
ties. We want to arm young
creativity was amazing! One Barbie wore
girls with the critical-thinking skills to assess
glasses
and tennis shoes; a GI Joe sported
and overcome the societal messages that
dark
curly
hair, was noticeably skinnier, and
seek to undermine their self confidence. We
was
identified
as a “gentle” man.
want them to embrace their “smartness,” to
The
second
workshop, offered by the
pursue career goals and dreams, and beGirls
Scouts
of
Southwest
Colorado, taught
come economically self-sufficient women
the
girls
how
to
identify
bullies
and how to
who can take care of themselves.
intervene
on
the
victim’s
behalf.
Girls and their parents braved a heavy
Parents also had an opportunity to learn
snowstorm to spend the day at the La Plata
more
about the challenges that “tweens”
County Fairgrounds with our adult facilitaface
in
a discussion group led by a panel of
tors, who encouraged them to be aware of
experts
on topics such as puberty or cellmedia messages that encourage girls and
phone
use,
women to pursue physical perfection over
Girls ended the conference with a cereintellectual growth.
mony
that allowed them to share what they
Using Barbie and GI Joe dolls to illuslearned
by drawing and stringing together
trate, Durango School District 9-R Health
prayer
flags.
Educator Linda Herz encouraged the girls to
As I watched them make their individidentify the features that no human could
ual
presentations,
I knew I would be proud
attain, like Barbie’s impossibly narrow waist,
to
have
any
one
of
these girls serve as a
or feet perpetually ready for high heels.
role
model
for
my
daughter!
The girls then drew pictures of more realistic Barbies and Joes, and their
G2W Conference now in its 13th year!
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Friday, April 19, at the Sun Ute
Recreation Center
•
Tuesday, April 23, at the La
Plata County Fairgrounds
The Women’s Resource Center recognizes that a good education is the
best way to avoid a life of poverty. One
of the most critical times in a young
woman’s educational career is her passage from middle school to high school,
when she leaves her childhood and enters her teenage years.
Since 2000, the Women’s Resource
Center has helped eighth-grade girls
prepare for their passage into young
adulthood
with the “Girls
to Women,
Women to
Girls” Conference held
each spring. About 300 girls from La
Plata County learn from peers and adult
women how to negotiate life’s trials and
tribulations that may interfere with
their education.
Visit our Web site at www.wrcdurango.org. Click on the Education Link
to learn more about Girls to Women.
NetWorks is published quarterly by the Women’s
Resource Center of Durango for members, sponsors, and the community.
Women’s Resource Center
679 E. Second Ave., Suite 6
Durango, CO 81301
970.247.1242 • www.wrcdurango.org
Staff
Liz Mora, Executive Director
Christy Schaerer, Programs Coordinator
Deborah Uroda, Marketing & Fund Development Director
Judy Abercrombie, Bookkeeping
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Anne Swisher named Volunteer of the Year at annual meeting
Anne Swisher, a retired
fifth-grade teacher who is “compassionate, thoughtful, and very
organized,” was named the
2013 Volunteer of the Year at
the Women’s Resource Center’s
annual Volunteer Appreciation
Dinner and Annual Meeting held
Jan. 16.
More than 85 members attended the annual event, where
they elected new board members and officers. Daniel Wiggins, who joined the board in
2011, will be the Women’s Resource Center’s first-ever male
board chair. Bev Wells was
elected vice chair; Michelle
Sainio, treasurer; and Kristin
Nielsen, secretary. Nielsen is a
new board member as are B.J.
Boucher and Lesley Gannon
Meiering. Returning board
members are Tonya Ensign,
Margie Deane Gray, Moni
Grushkin, and Beth McMacken.
WRC staff selected Swisher
as the Volunteer of the Year for
her work a the chair of the
Womenade Council and her contributions to the Girls to
Women, Women to Girls
and the Get Your Girl
Power conferences.
Swisher helps plan the
conferences and conducts
several workshops.
She is one of 125 volunteers who gave 2,377
hours of service to the
Center in 2012. That’s
equivalent to about
Anne Swisher, left, with Womenade Coun- $50,000 in salaries
Womenade is a grasscil member Janet Oliver.
Retail Mogul
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• Step-by-step strategies
to getting buyers
• How to leverage the
power of fame to promote your products
through movie placement, getting celebrities
to talk and use your
products, and convincing
national magazines to
These Handy Hold-All® Handbag Holders by
feature your products in
Simply Sarah are sold in more than 400 retail
outlets nationwide. Sarah Shaw, their creator,
their news stories
will share how she placed her holders with re“By the end of the
tailers in a daylong workshop called Retail
workshop,
you’ll know how
Mogul scheduled for Thursday, May 2, at the
Smiley Building. All proceeds from the workto contact the right pershop will benefit the Women’s Resource Center.
son, what to say to knock
their socks off, and what to give them so you look like a superstar.
I’ll demystify the process and show you exactly how to get your
products in the stores of your dreams with all the confidence of an
experienced, savvy Entreprenette,” she says.
To learn more about the Retail Mogul Workshop and to register
online, go to entreprenette.com/retailmogul.
roots organization of women
who provide financial assistance
to individuals through one-time
grants. The grants are awarded
to help those women and families who have a temporary and
often unexpected financial hardship to overcome to move forward with their lives.
Womenade donors decide
how their contributions will be
spent. All contributions collected
are given to elected recipients;
no funds are used for administrative expenses. In 2012,
Womenade assisted 31 women
with $12,895 in requests. All
that money came from individual donations from women who
want to make a difference in
other women’s lives. Since
2002, Womenade has awarded
nearly $77,000 in funding to
help women in crisis!
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She served on the WRC board of directors from 1989-95 and was its president in 1993-95. She was one of the
founders of the Girls to Women, Women
to Girls Conference and continues to be
actively involved in the annual event.
Ms. Brodsky also has served on the
Colorado Women’s Foundation Board of
Directors, the Women’s Educational Advisory Council, the VALE Board of Directors, the Tri-County Headstart Board
of Directors, and has volunteered
countless hours with Durango School
District 9-R to improve vocational and
career education programs.
She also is involved with the Sexual Assault Services Organization, the
Volunteers of America Southwest Safehouse, and has served on the Regional
Advisory Board with the Southwest Col-
orado Small Business Center.
Once a month, Ms. Brodsky holds
office hours at the Women’s Resource
Center to meet with clients who need
help with job searches, résumé writing,
or starting or growing their own businesses. During the past two years, she
has worked with more than 50 clients.
“Enid has mentored many women
and teens in the community. Her
straightforward, no-nonsense approach
has proven to be effective in helping
those she meets work through their
processes so they become more successful,” wrote Joe Keck, executive director of the Southwest Colorado Small
Business Development Center in his
nomination of Ms. Brodsky.
For more information, contact the
Women’s Resource Center at 247-1242.
Wonder Women
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prompted the collaborating organizations to feature presentations by
women in the STEM professions on issues as wide ranging as gender differences and how they define women’s
roles in society to how a science-fiction
comic-book character like Wonder
Woman became an icon for the feminist
movement.
“We’re proud to be collaborating
for the fourth year in a row with the
Gender and Women’s Studies Program
at Fort Lewis College, the Girl Scouts of
Southwest Colorado, and the American
Association of University Women to
bring our community an entertaining
and intellectually stimulating series of
low-cost or free events that we hope
will raise awareness about the ways our
society continues to undermine
women’s efforts to become economically and emotionally self- sufficient,”
said WRC Executive Director Liz Mora.
“While we wish to raise awareness
about the work that still needs to be
done, Women’s History Month also celebrates the achievements that women
have made to ensure equal opportunity
for all, and it celebrates the role models
that continue to inspire us to create a
better future for our sons and daughters.”
Women’s History Month
Schedule of Events
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Mortality in Eternity:Mayumi Amada Exhibition
Opening Reception: 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Fort Lewis College Art Gallery in the Art Hall
Japanese installation artist Maymi Amada explores
the brevity of human life within the eternal flow of
time. Exhibit runs through March 28. Contact Hillary
Raab at 247-7167 for more information.
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
Pub Science with Dr. Michelle Hemingway
5:30 p.m. at the Discovery Museum
Free to WRC members, $7.50 all others
Beer and wine available for purchase.
Are Men REALLY from Mars and Women from Venus?
Dr. Michelle Hemingway explores the factors at the
root of gender differences.
MONDAY, MARCH 11
EcoFem Lenses
7 p.m. in the Vallecito Room, Fort Lewis College
Free.
A panel discussion featuring students and faculty in
the fields of environmental and feminist activism,
who will speak on the oppression felt by both movements and the correlation between the two.
MARCH 11-19
A Light to Remember
Exhibit Gallery, Fort Lewis College Art Building
Free
A screening of the new, award-winning documentary Wonder Women:
The Untold Story of American Superheroines with producer Kelcey Edwards will be the anchor event for the
month along with the Women’s Resource Center’s annual Extraordinary
Woman Award Luncheon scheduled for
Friday, March 15, at the Henry Strater
Theater.
The documentary will be shown at
6 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in the
Fort Lewis College Ballroom. Edwards,
who produced Wonder Women with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, will be
on hand to discuss the film and how superheroines have inspired women to
slay their own dragons and not wait to
be rescued by others. Admission is free
and open to the public, and audience
members are encouraged to dress as
their favorite superheroine for the
night.
See a complete list of Women’s
History Month activities at www.wrcdurango.org.
Campus and community members are invited to decorate a veladora (a votive candle) with a drawing or
photo of a woman in their lives whom they wish to
honor during Women’s History Month. Contact Nancy
Stoffer, coordinator of Diversity Programming, 2477170 or stoffer_n@fortlewis.edu.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
Wonder Women: The Untold Story
of American Superheroines
6 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom,
Fort Lewis College. Free.
Join Producer and Co-Director Kelcey Edwards for a
screening of her new, award-winning documentary,
and learn how and why Wonder Woman came to be
and why she continues as an enduring role model
and feminist icon. Audience members are encouraged to dress up as their favorite superheroine,
whether she be Wonder Woman, the Bionic Woman,
or Xena Warrior Princess!
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
Extraordinary Woman Award Luncheon
11:30 a.m. at the Henry Strater Hotel
Cost is $15 for lunch; cash bar
Call 247-1242 for advanced ticket reservation
Kelcey Edwards, producer and co-director of the
award-winning documentary Wonder Women: The
Untold Story of American Superheroines, will be the
keynote speaker at the Women’s Resource Center’s
annual luncheon that honors the recipient of the Extraordinary Woman Award.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
Second screening of Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines
5:30 p.m. at the Durango Discovery Museum
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Women’s History Month
Schedule of Events
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
Codependency and Women:
The Madonna / Whore Conflict
6 p.m. 130 Chemistry Hall. Free
Dr. Kristin Roush, a private practitioner and faculty
member at Central New Mexico Community College,
will discuss how personality traits associated with
being co-dependent have been used to describe the
“ideal woman” in American culture.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23
AAUW’s Annual Book and Author Luncheon,
Featuring Dinah Swan, author of the Mary Alice
Tate Southern Mysteries series
11:30 a.m. in the Vallecito Room at Fort Lewis
College. Contact Katherine Burgess at
kaburgess@durango.net for ticket information
Dinah Leavitt Swan will be the featured author at the
annual luncheon and fund-raiser that benefits the
AAUW scholarship fund.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27
STEM-Power! How Girls Can Change the World!
5-7 p.m. at the Durango Discovery Museum.
Free.
This interactive evening for elementary school-aged
girls will give them an opportunity to learn from professional women about the intriguing and fun career
opportunities available to them in STEM industries.
Includes hands-on science activities with Discovery
Museum staff. Sponsored by the Girl Scouts of
Southwest Colorado. Contact Kyle Conrad at
Kyle.Conrad@gscolorado.org.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 29-30
The Vagina Monologues
7 p.m. both nights at the Durango Arts Center
Tickets: $10. Available at the door or on campus
the week of the performances.
Join Fort Lewis College student and community actors in this annual production of The Vagina Monologues, an episodic play based on author Eve Ensler’s
Vagina Interviews with women from around the
world. The collection of stories give voice to women’s
lusty, outrageous, poignant, brave and thoroughly
human experiences. Produced by Feminist Voice.
Women’s History Month Sponsors:
Presenting Sponsor:
• Alpine Bank
Gold Sponsor:
• Red Willow Production
• Strater Catering and Events
Silver Sponsors:
• HANSON HONDA
• Rochester Hotel
Bronze Sponsors:
• Signature Salon, Spa & Med Spa
• Urban Market: Wares for the Home
Our Partners:
• Fort Lewis College Gender & Women’s Studies
Program
• The Discovery Museum
• Girls Scouts of Southwest Colorado
• La Plata County Chapter of the American Association of University Women
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Thank you to our corporate
donors and sponsors
New & Renewing Memberships October 15, 2011 to February 28, 2013
PLATINUM
• 99X American General
Media
• Alpine Bank
• Animas Surgical Hospital
• ASAP Business Services
• Athena Communications
• BuzzTown.com
• Coca-Cola Bottling
of Durango
• Colorado Bar Nonprofit
Foundation
• Colorado Trails Ranch
• DirectoryPLUS
• Durango Herald
• Durango Motor Company
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Foundation
• Guitar Dojo
• IlluminArts Photography
• The Johnson Foundation
• Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company
• Thrive: A Creating Wellness
Center
• Women’s Foundation of
Colorado
GOLD:
• Blue Lake Ranch
• BP America Production
Company
• Celebration Events
• Don Gaspar Inn c/o Blue
Lake Ranch
• Durango & Silverton
Narrow Gauge Railroad
• Durango Area Association
of Realtors
• Durango Mountain Resort
• First National Bank
of Durango
• Four Corners OB-GYN, LLP
• Gail C. Harriss, LLC
• High Noon Rotary Club
• Kiwanis Club of Durango
• Mercy Regional Medical
Center
• Red Willow Production
Company
• Rent-A-Man
• Sam S. Bloom Foundation
• Spaaah Shop & Day Spa
• Steamworks Brewing Co.
• Strater Catering and
Events.
• Tom & Mary Orsini Fund
c/o The Denver Foundation
• Wells Fargo Advisors
• Wells Fargo Bank
of Durango
• The Yellow Carrot
SILVER:
• aaha! design studio
/Timothy Hanagan
• Advanced Concrete
Solutions
• Aldrich Art Jewelry
• Being First, Inc.
• Durango Dermatology
• Durango Mountain Resort
• Durango Party Rental
• Durango Urgent Care
Thank you
to our Lifetime Members!
• Gail Aalund
• Terry Bacon
and Debra Parmenter
• Richard and Mary Lyn
Ballantine
• Morley Ballantine
(In Memorium)
• Enid and Herb Brodsky
• Erteszek Family
Foundation
• Kay Byerly
• Candice Carson
and George Banker
• David Farmer,
Durango Sports Club
• Lynn Gray
• Polly Garner & Bill Vega
• Carol Griffith
• Betty Haskell
(In Memorium)
• Nancy Henry-Lasley
• JM Jones
and Jim Mohle
• Susan Lander
• Lloyd B. Lifton, M.D.
• Jessie Morgan
• Carol Salomon
and Norman Broad
• Ginny Segerlund
• Elizabeth “Bette”
Serzen, in husband
Russ’ memory
• Lenora Tracy
• Diane Wildfang
& Kirk Komik,
Rochester Hotel
• Howard & Marjie Wilson
• Secret Angels
• E.P.I.C. Empowering
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Glacier Club
Hanson Honda
La Plata County Energy
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La Plata Electric Round-Up
Foundation
Ore House Restaurant
Peak Energy Resources
Prudential Foundation
SOS Staffing
Sutcliffe Vineyards
Vectra Bank Colorado
White Elephant Foundation
BRONZE:
• Advanced Massage Therapy
• Bethany Bachmann, LLC
• Blu Boutique
• C&J Gravel
• Courtney Harshberger
Farmers Insurance Agency
• Crane & Tejada, P.C.
• Dental Associates of the
Southwest
• Durango Coffee Company
• Durango Embroidery and
Print
• Durango Magazine
• Durango Nursery & Supply
• emagine, LLC.
• Empowered Energy
• Entreprenette
• Feminist Voice
• Flooring America
• Fox Fire Farms
• Fredrick Zink & Associates
• Gazpachos Restaurante y
Cantina
• Goldman, Robbins &
Nicholson, P.C.
• Karen Skelly Photography
• Maria's Bookshop
• Maynes, Bradford, Shipps
& Sheftel, LLP
• Mountain Bike Specialists
• Mutu's Italian Kitchen
• Norton's Catering
• Open Shutter Gallery, LLC
• Ore House
• PASCO/SW Home Health
• Planned Parenthood of the
Rocky Mountains
• Rapp Corral
• Region 9 Economic
Development District
• John Rothchild, DDS
• Salon del Sol
• Sanders Skin Care Center
• Signature Salon,Spa &
Medical Spa
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Individual Members: the foundation of the Women’s Resource Center
INSPIRING MEMBERS:
• Laura Addington
• Cissy and John Anderson
• Karen Anesi
• Elizabeth Ballantine
• Marcy Branham
• Reading Club of Durango
c/oLynn May, Treasurer
• Cindy Coleman
• Cindy Cortese
• Cathy Crum
• Janet Curry
• Carolyn Dailey
• Flora Davidson
• Susan A. Davies
• Deborah Demme
• Trefny Dix
• Christina Erteszek
• James Foster
• Margie Deane Gray
• Moni Grushkin
• Al and Carol Harper
• Pamela Hasterok
• Jan Bowler and Robert
Haugen
• Judy and Don Hayes
• Helen Ballantine Healy
• Michelle Hemingway
• Susie Herb
• Cecily and Terry Klingman
• Ken and Debbie Kurz
• Ljuba Lemke
• Mary Husemoller and Bill
Hobson
• Ed Lehner and Julianne
Ward
• Kim Martin and Stephen
Phillips
• Heather Martinez
• Dick & Foxie Mason
• Phyllis R. Max
• Tracey McInerney
• Mindy and Patrick Meiering
• Carolyn Moller
• Christine Monk
• Liz Mora
• Sydney Morris
• Barbara Morris
• Michelle and Robert
Oppenheimer
• Ingrid Peterson
• Gina Piccoli
• Nancy Richmond
• Sheri R. Rochford Figgs
• John Rothchild, D.D.S
• Gideon Rothwell
• Kris Ryall
• Dene and Gordon Thomas
• Kristin S. Thomas
• Karen Thompson and Larry
Eads
• Carol and Gary Treat
• Deborah Uroda
• Beverly Wells
• Daniel Wiggins
• Sharilynn Williams
• Dana Wilson
• Patti Zink
EMPOWERING MEMBERS:
• Judy Abercrombie
• Judith B. Aitken
• Linda Anderson
BRONZE CORPORATE MEMBERSHIPS CONTINUED
• Sinberg Capital Lending
• Ska Brewing
• Sonas Integrative Medical
Center
• Southwest Appliance
• Southwest Colorado Bar
Association
• Southwest Colorado
Community College
• Specialists in Women's
Care
• StoneAge Tools, Inc.
• Tami Graham Professional
Services
• True Life Coaching
and Retreats
• Urban Market: Wares
for the Home
• Wells Fargo Bank
• Wiesbaden Spa and Hotel
• Wild Rivers Expeditions
• Zuke's Pet Treats
FRIENDS:
• Alley House Grille
• Animas B&B
• Animas Detail
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DoubleTree by Hilton
Durango Animal Hospital
Elsa Ross
Fresh Off the Press
Fort Lewis Community
Concert Hall
Fox Fire Farms
General Palmer Hotel
Ken and Sue's Restaurant
Music in the Mountains
Mutu’s Italian Kitchen
Oohs and Ahs Quality
Home Furnishing
Red Cliff Lodge
San Juan Inn
Seaons Rotisserie & Grill
Silver Pick Lodge
Silverton Brewery
Sow’s Ear
Strater Hotel
The Bon Ton Resturant
The Jewelry Works
The Springs Resort and
Spa
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Carol Appelbaum
Robin Awe
Sally Bellerue
Maureen Brandon
Marjorie and Scott Brinton
Stephenie Brost
Linda Bunk
Lilly Burkett
Susan and Wayne Caplan
Dee Dee Carlson
Cindy Cortese
Anita Cribley
Janet Curry
Eileen Dawson
Christine Deem
Deborah Demme
Beth Drum
Shakti Dudley
Jim and Shari Dyer
Claudia Engle
Kathy Firestone
Jo Fusco
Marlene Gebhardt
Julie and John Gentry
Mary Gillam
Connie Gordon
Deborah Gorton and Peter
Loranger
Sue and Dick Griffith
Hope Hamilton
Timothy Hanagan
Pamela Hasterok
John Heavenrich
Michelle Hemingway
Judy Hodges and Peter
Norton
Janalee Hogan
Barbara B. Hunter
Patty Isensee
Anne Jackson
Lucia & Charles Jenney
S. Maile & Olin Kane
Haeryon Kim and Carol
Smith
Susan Koonce
Linda Kramer
Connie Langenbahn
Virginia Lashbrooke, MFT
Shelley Leader
Ljuba Lemke
Karren Little
LaVerne Luz
Sweetie Marbury
Emily McCardle
Melanie McLean
Keneen McNiven
Mandy Mikulencak
Tekla Miller
Liz Mora
Stephanie Moran
Kristin Nielsen
Mary Nowotny
Penny O’Keefe
Mary Ocken
Mark and Chris Opplinger
Nancy and Jim Ottman
Carol and Ron Ozaki
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Susie Patalan
Susie and Richard Peterson
Christine and Howard
Rachlin
Jennifer Reeder
Carol Rhan
Ronald G. Ritz
Dot Robinson
Delores Rodman
Peg Rogers and Steve Boos
Faye Schrater and Dick
White
Jill Schuman
Christine Serwe
Lynne Sholler
Barbara Shore
Carol Simmons
Bunnie Smith
Joanne Spina
Ann Stringfellow
Marilyn Swanson
Anne Swisher
Karen Thompson and Larry
Eads
Kathy Uroda
Beverly Wells
Justin Werts
Linda and Tom West
Bob and Arden Westerwick
ADVOCATE MEMBERS:
• Animas Valley Elementary
School Community c/o Niki
Hansen
• Drs. Mary F. and Clint
Barter
• Willa Beatty
• Tom Ann Casey & Walt
Walker
• Moni Grushkin
• Holly Hagan
• Diane Howe
• Susan Kroes
• Karren Little
• Eilene Lyon
• Nicki Massieon
• Christine Monk
• Jeanne Parks
• Marie Roessler
• Patti Salomon
• Charles Siegele
• Annette Trick
• Marilee Jantzer White
FAMILY MEMBERS:
• James and Toni Marie
Abbey
• Shauna Agnew
• Susan and Davitt
Armstrong
• Donna Bailey, c/o VPC
• Gigi and Mike Baty
• Karen Bell
• Beth and Alan Benefiel
• Cheryle Brandsma
• Ginny (Virginia Wood)
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Lourdes Carrasco
Maria Carsburg
Sheila Casey
Cathy Craig
Eileen Dawson
Jim and Shari Dyer
Louise Edwards
Carolyn Feller and David
Hammer
Ann Flatten
Sandra and Richard Gibbs
Mary Gillam
Jana Goldstein
Jan Bowler and Robert
Haugen
Connie and Mike Kane
S. Maile & Olin Kane
Connie and Mike Kane
Maureen Keilty
Susan Kroes
Beth Lamberson
Karren Little
LaVerne Luz
Suzy Lyons
Ilza Aviks and John
Mahoney
Janice and Stephen Martin
Dick & Foxie Mason
Erica Max
Melanie McLean
Christine Monk
Nanci Moore
Daniel and Polly
Morgenstern
Allison and Tom Morrissey
Will and Jenny Newcomer
Rose Niederauer
Andrea and Elena
Parmenter
Aurelia Peterson
Mary Jo Rakowski
Kathy Redford
Jennifer Reeder
Karen Reichenbach and
Thom Hanna
Debra and Steven Ruddell
Lori Rundquist
Christy and Gerry Schaerer
Jill Seyfarth
Kathleen Shadell
Lisa & Loren Skyhorse
Anita Smith
Joanne Spina
Terry Stalker
Bill and Dorothy Tarpley
Linda Thompson
Carol and Gary Treat
Sandy Wheaton
Joe and Jeanne Zeman
SUSTAINING MEMBERS:
• Mary Kay Aigner
• Judith B. Aitken
• Cathy Alfandre
• Amy Allred
• Caroline Arlen
• Elizabeth Bartley
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Mary Ann & Tom Berry
Patricia Bilyk
Ruth Bloom
Lisa Blue
Diana Boland
Judy and Harry Bolton
Suzanne Bolton
Sally Bradley
Cheryle Brandsma
Barb Brazes
Marilyn T. Brown
Rhonda Brown
Lynne Bruzzese
Katherine Burgess
Tecumseh Burnett
Ann Butler
Victoria Calvert
Stephanie and Mike
Cameron
Judy Campbell
Bobbie Carll
Lynne Carpenter
Chuck and Cheryl Carson
Chris Cavner
Pakhi Chaudhuri, M.D.
Marcia Clouser
Cindy Coleman
Anita Cribley
Kathy Curran
Alison Dance
Kim Dickinson
Dianne Donovan
Nancy Ehlenbeck
Wanda Ellingson
Barbara Elliott
Christina Erteszek
Mary Lou Falkenstein
Kathleen Fine-Dare
Ginger Fisher
Valerie Foreman
Carlotta Frank
Mary Frazer
Maggie K. Galland
Alison Goss
Yvonna Graham
Cheryl Graves
Andrew Gulliford
Sharon Hargett
Barbara W. Harris
Frances Hart
Pamela Hasterok
Mary Havran
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Sonja Hecker
Linda Herz
Barb Horn
Kellie Hotter
Betsy Janeczek
Ginger Jenks
Susan Kaiser
Raymond Kane
S. Maile & Olin Kane
Andrea Katres
Christina Knickerbocker
Brigid Korce
Trudy Kremer
Laura Kuniansky
Helen B. Kunz
Judith Laine
David Lawlor
Nancy Leach
Nancy Loftis
Sunshine Lofton
Annamarie Longfellow
Gisela Lott
Linda Mack and Wynn
Berven
Linda Mannix
Annie McGraw
Patricia McIvor
Bethany McManus
Donna Medeiros
Leslie and Bob Meiering
Leigh Meigs
Barbara Miles
Martha Tinsley Minot
Laura Moorefield
Liz Mora
Nikki Morrissey
Mary Anne Nelson
Marsha Porter Norton
Lori Norton Welz
Antoinette Nowakowski, DC
Peg Ochsenreiter
Mary Ocken
Mary O'Donnell
Sandra Olson
Carol and Ron Ozaki
Beth Padilla
Jill Patton
Nancy Peake
Sarah Perkins
Barbara Pevny
Anne Putnam
• Christine and Howard
Rachlin
• Kathy Redford
• Jennifer Reeder
• Michelle Reott
• Nancy Richmond
• Laura Rickard
• Naomi Riess
• Gay Robson
• Missy Rodey
• Kay Rowe
• Haz Said
• Shari Sanford
• Viola Schaerer
• Randi Schweitz
• Kristen Searfus
• Lisa Self
• Karrie Sellke
• Maddie Shaline
• Janice Sheftel
• Lynne Sholler
• Margaret Simon
• Anita L. Smith
• Janet Spear
• Betsy Spencer
• Terry Stalker
• Ellen Stein
• Sarah Sumner
• Jeanine Surber
• Shai Teeter
• Mary Tesitor
• Kathy "Ket" Thomas
• Jill A. Tierney
• Caroline Todd
• Liza Tregillus
• Joanie Trussel
• Rebecca Turner
• Nancy Vanderwal
• Kelly von Stroh
• Tim Walsworth
• Midge & Jay Wannamaker
• Julie Westendorff
• Judy Wheeler
• Nancy Whitson
• Molly Wieser
• Ann Willard
• Flow Wolf
• Paula Wormer
• Peggy Zemach
• Suzanne Zerbe
Empower a Woman,
Change a Life
with your
WRC membership today!
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Member Benefits
As a member of the Women’s Resource
Center, you will receive:
• Discounts or free entry into WRC
events, including Women’s History
Month presentations, the Empowerment Workshops, and special events.
• Subscription to Networks, our quarterly printed newsletter that let’s you
know how your support changes lives.
• Opportunities to advertise in Networks with a circulation of 1,200
readers or on our Web site at wrcdurango.org.
• Subscription to News You Can Use,
our online e-newsletter that informs
you fast about WRC events and activities.
• Member-to-member discounts on insurance and other services.
• Opportunities to network with some
of the most fabulous women in La
Plata County.
• A full heart, knowing you’ve helped a
woman overcome obstacles to economic self-sufficiency.
Making a difference in the lives
of women in La Plata County
The Women’s Resource Center offers an open door, five days a week, to
a warm and safe environment, where
women meet with staff members to
find the community resources they
need to take care of themselves and
their families. Women don’t need an
appointment nor do they need to qualify for our help. Any woman who walks
through our doors can expect a smile, a
compassionate ear, and a plan for finding help to overcome the obstacles that
are getting in the way of her economic
success.
And we’re making a difference:
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In 2012, we worked with 888
women. That represents an 11 percent increase – or 85 women more
– than in 2011.
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We saw a significant increase in
the need for legal services, food
assistance and emergency financial
assistance.
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The majority of our clients were
equally divided between the ages
of 21 and 60.
A lack of education is the No. 1 impediment to economic self-sufficiency,
and our intake data tell the tale:
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10 percent of our clients failed to
graduate from high school.
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37 percent had a high school
diploma or GED, but no college experience.
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Only 21 percent had graduated
from college.
In 2012, we established three
scholarships, two at Fort Lewis College,
including one for a La Plata County high
school graduate who is the first in her
family to go to college, and another for
a nontraditional student. The third is
the Educational Opportunity Fund that
we administer. It provides grants for
any certified training program, workshop or class that will help women improve their employability.
In 2012, we provided more than
$14,000 in educational funds to more
than 16 women! Your support IS making a BIG DIFFERENCE in the lives of
women in La Plata County!
Mark Your Calendars
Join us for all-youcan-eat grilled delights 11 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1,
on Main Avenue
in front of The Durango Herald. Presented by
Directory Plus and The Durango Herald. Tickets available May 1.
THE Girl Event of the Year! Sip
champagne, nibble on fabulous hors d’oeuvres, drink in
the incredible
scenery the Pine
River Valley at LePlatt’s Pond. 5:30 to
8:30 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 23. Tickets
available in July.
Volunteers needed for both
events. Call 247-1242 for
more information.
Return Service Requested
679 E. Second Ave., Suite 6
Durango, CO 81301