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Office Hours:
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.



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.

W;t 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.

 Womenade scheduled
for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 4
at the Rochester Hotel

WomenadeBring 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.

Member News


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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