Organization Will Address Needs Of Women In Business

Happens every fall. We get tons of press releases on events, talks, seminars of special interest to women. So hold on to your hats, get out your calendars and start planning.

Getting it all: That’s the theme for a series of luncheons sponsored by Business Excellence for Women, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support, inspiration and education for women in business. The kick-off luncheon will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Ridpath Hotel. Then each month there will be a luncheon on different topics, such as “getting smart, getting noticed, getting ideas.” Membership costs $35. For information, call 466-6266.

Resolve: The Resolve group, which provides support and information for those affected by infertility, will discuss “Adoption: A lifelong process” at its meeting Sept. 26. It will be held at Manito Presbyterian Church, 401 E. 30th, beginning at 7 p.m.

Healthy kids: Thirty Spokane agencies have banded together to sponsor the Healthy Youth Conference. It will be held Oct. 2 and 3 at Cavanaugh’s Inn at the Park. Topics will include “intervention with youth at risk,” “suicide prevention,” “drug and alcohol resistance” and “breaking the cycle of abuse and violence.” The conference is open to health professionals, social workers, community counselors and “others who are responsible for working with youth in any capacity.” Continuing education credits have been approved for several professions. For more information, call Lyndia Vold at 324-1528, or Kevin Malee at 358-7640.

Women Helping Women: This group has been very successful the past few years raising large sums of money at their May luncheons. They then distribute the money to nonprofit organizations that help women and children in the Spokane area. Women Helping Women is now accepting applications for grants that will be raised this year. Applications are due Oct. 30. For more information, call Kim Mayer at 747-0802.

Reel life: Two more great responses to women going alone to movies. Tracy Johnson of Spokane: “Attending films solo is one way I care for my soul. In the beginning I viewed it as a challenge to my confidence but going alone is now second nature to me.” And from Brenda Rogers of Spokane: “I like to go to movies alone because I get to see what I want, go shopping or go right back in to see another movie. I’ve seen four movies in one day. I really don’t rely on other people to have a life. I always tell my sons that they are their own best friend and nobody knows them as well as they know themselves.”

She said: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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