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8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday
679
East 2nd Ave., Unit #6
P.O.
Box 2132
Durango,
Colorado 81302
Tel:
(970) 247-1242
Fax:
(970) 247-8722
E-mail:
members@wrcdurango.org
February
Activities
Monday, February
8 - Pro Se Divorce
Clinic
A free seminar on filling out and processing your own divorce papers.
Scheduled for 6 to 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 8, at the Durango Public
Library. Offered by Colorado Legal Services, the Southwest Bar
Volunteer Legal Aid, and the Women's Resource Center. Contact the
Women's Resource Center at 247-1242 for more information.
Thursday,
February 18 - Speed Networking: A Fast-Paced and Fun Networking Event
for Busy Businesswomen
Join
us for a fast-paced and fun networking event just for women from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Durango Recreation Center.
Hosted by the Women's Resource Center and sponsored by Thrive and Mary
Kay Cosmetics of Durango, the night will be structured like a
speed dating event, only
you'll exchange business information in four-minute conversations with
other
professional women! After four minutes have passed, you'll move to the
next mini-meeting!
We'll have goody bags for the first 50 women who sign up at the door;
we'll also have door prizes, too. Light refreshments will be
served. Suggested donation of $5 will be accepted at the door to defray
expenses.
Watch the Web site
over the next few weeks for more information!
Donations sought for goody bags
Do you have discount certificates or giveaways that you'd like to place
in the goody bags for the Speed Networking event on Feb. 18? It's a
great way to market to 50 professional women in Durango. Drop off 50
copies or items by Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Women's Resource Center,
679 E. Second Ave., Suite 6. Call Deborah Uroda
at 247-1242 for more information.
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News
from
the
Women's Resource Center
February 2, 2010
El Pomar awards $5,000 to WRC
The
Women's Resource Center was one of 17 agencies in Southwest Colorado to
receive a grant from El Pomar as part of the foundation's giving
program to agencies recommended by members of its Southwest Regional
Council.
The regional council is an advisory board of community
leaders representing the five counties in Region 9 -- Archuleta,
Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan Counties. Council members
recommend the recipients to El Pomar, and in turn, El Pomar awarded more than
$150,000 to agencies in the Southwest Region. WRC received the $5,000 surprise gift on Monday.
Former WRC Executive Director Susan Lander, who now serves as Executive
Director for Music in the Mountains, recommended WRC for the award.
The
regional council identified three areas for funding: economic
development, affordable house, and emergency services. The Women's
Resource Center received funds through El Pomar's Colorado Assistance Fund
geared toward emergency human services.
"We are honored to be
recognized by the Regional Council as a recipient of an El Pomar
grant, and we are especially grateful to Susan Lander for her
continuing belief in and support of our mission," said WRC Executive
Director Liz Mora. "We'll use the funds to
support our Resource and Referral Program that helps women find the
resources they need to feed, clothe and house themselves, to find
work,
and to develop an economically self-sufficient life."
Contact Mora at 247-1242 or director@wrcdurango.org for more information.
Join us for "W;t," a Pulitzer
Prize-winning play about a woman's struggle to overcome ovarian cancer
“W;t,”
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a woman’s struggle with
ovarian cancer,
will be staged at the Durango Arts Center
on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6, as a benefit event for the Durango
Arts
Center and the Women’s Resource Center.
The
Silhouette
Series of Performing Arts at San Juan College and the Theatre Department will present
the work by playwright Margaret
Edson,
who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the “Best New
Play” award from the New
York Drama Critics’ Circle, both in 1999.
“W;t”
covers the last hours of English professor Vivian Bearing, who is dying
of
ovarian cancer. She recalls the progress of her illness, from her
diagnosis
with Stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer through her experimental
chemotherapy
treatments, assessing her life through the poetry of John Donne, the
use of wit,
and the English language. Bearing gradually realizes that her doctors
are more
interested in her as a research subject than as a human being and finds
a
parallel with her own life as a scholar who preferred the life of the
mind over
human relationships. In the end, she realizes that she would have
preferred
kindness and compassion over intellect.
Tickets
may be purchased in advance through the Durango Arts,
the Women’s Resource Center, or
the door.
Tickets are $18 for general admission, $15 for seniors and
students. Curtain is 7 p.m. both nights. And on Friday, a panel
discussion with
Dr. Cynthia Cathcart, a medical oncologist with the
Durango Cancer Center,
and Maureen
Maker, an ovarian cancer survivor, advocate and teacher with the
Colorado
Ovarian Cancer Alliance, will occur.
The
performance and panel discussion are sponsored by the Women’s
Resource Center,
the Durango Arts Center,
and the Women’s Health Coalition of Southwest Colorado. For
more
information, contact the Women’s Resource Center at
247-1242 or members@wrcdurango.org.
Congratulations to Carol Treat,
winning bidder for four
Snowdown Follies Tickets!
Thank you to Charlie Siegele for donating the tickets and to Durango Community Access Television and J3 Media for hosting the auction.
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Womenade scheduled
for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 4
at the Rochester Hotel
Bring an hors d'oeuvres to share (though not
required to attend) and a
$25 suggested donation. We'll bring the wine. We'll pool our resources
and vote to give the
money to women who've applied for our emergency assistance. All the
money goes toward the applicants, and no administrative costs are
deducted. It's a great way to make a difference one person at a time!
A complete calendar of Womenade dates, application deadlines and
materials, may be found here
. . .
Questions? Contact WRC Programs Director Diana Serpe
at 247-1242.
Other ways to support the Women's Resource
Center
City Market Cares Program
Support the Women's Resource Center through the City Market Cares
program. Just send
us your name, telephone number, and City Market Card number, and we'll sign you up.
Although you may have been signed up in the past, your name may have
been dropped inadvertently over the past few years. So please
sign up again!
All donations will be used for emergency assistance funds for women.
Buy Local Coupon Book
The Women's Resource Center has teamed up with the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado to sell the Be Local Coupon Book. We have 50 books to sell and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Women's Resource Center.
Each book costs $15 and contains more than $4,000 in savings through 227 coupons from 140 local businesses.
So support local business AND the Women's Resource Center. Books are available at our offices at 679 E. Second Ave., Suite 6.
Annual Fort Lewis
College Job Fair on Feb. 3
Lemon offers
financial
Empowerment Retreat for Women Feb. 4-7
If
you
have an event you want published on Member Events, please contact
Deborah Uroda at members@wrcdurango.org.
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