Sonia Paz Baron Vine joined the Women’s Community Center in 2008 and has been a valuable asset to the organization. She and her two children, Tatiana and Dmitri, have helped with our Day With Creative Women, both in the planning and implementation of the event, making sure that it was a huge success. She videotaped and posted to the WCC blog the Day With Creative Women as well as our Christmas party.

Our newest fundraiser involves collecting items that would otherwise pollute our landfills. These items listed below will bring money to The Women’s Community Center, and will be recycled properly or fixed and resold. Don’t throw these in the trash, call us now and see if we can turn them into much needed cash for the WCC!

Summer is in full swing, and I’m loving it. My tomatoes are starting to ripen, my zucchini is overwhelming my actual love of squash, and little eggplants are starting to form. My garden is what keeps me refreshed every summer, and though I’m no master gardener, I love how much I learn each year about the life process of plants. It’s also a good reminder about life in general—birth, growth, mistakes, disease, and eventually death. I feel like I understand the universe so much more after summer ends.

Yelena Kozlova is from Sunnyvale, CA in the Bay Area. She’s a student at Cal Poly. She was first interested in traditional drawing and painting, creating beautiful work that was pleasing to the eye, but later became attracted to using art as a form of communication and sending a message to the viewer. In her work, she combines elements of traditional fine art and the clarity of design to make the work aesthetically pleasing while being able to convey a clear message. In her poster for the Day With Creative …

By Robin Rinzler
Our newest fundraiser involves collecting items that would otherwise pollute our landfills. These items listed below will bring money to The Women’s Community Center, and will be recycled properly or fixed and resold. Don’t throw these in the trash, call us now and see if we can turn them into much needed cash for the WCC!

Cell phones
Ink Jet Printer Cartridges
Laptops & Notebooks
MP3 Players
Digital Cameras (still & video)
Radar Detectors
GPS Devices
Radar Detectors
Kindle & Sony Book Readers

These items can be working or not, damaged or not. Drop off your item or …

After my answer to the last issue’s question of what book has changed your life, about Mary Daly, I was moved to read her again. I was drawn to her autobiography, although she admits that’s a loosely defined term for what she has written. But it is pure Mary Daly and I loved it. It’s called Outercourse. There’s a concept she describes in it, which threads through the whole book, which also struck me, coming as it did in my own Re-membering (her orthography). I’m going to try to explain what I mean. Bear with me.

We are very happy to announce that our vice president Robin Rinzler has been awarded the “Progress for Women Award “ by Cuesta College!! This honor is awarded to a woman whose commitment to a particular program or issue of special relevance to women has helped to improve the quality of life for women. As an example: arts, science, health, etc.

There’ve been some changes on the business end of the Women’s Press designed to make life easier for our wonderful volunteer editor, Courtney, so we can keep her talent and dedication. To help decrease her workload and prevent burnout, the board is now responsible for the non-editorial parts of the paper (like the accounts), but it took a while until some of the affected people knew where to send bills, etc. One casualty of this switchover was you, the subscriber, who expected to get your paper in a timely fashion.

Time for a Nomination! I wanted to write an article to share with all of you and also to keep this information for posterity. We are nominating our sister, board member, and colleague, Robin Rinzler, to be the Cuesta College 2010 Woman of Distinction for Community and Public Service, Volunteer. We believe Robin is the perfect woman to win this most prestigious award. It would take me several pages, to tell you all the services Robin provides for our community, but I will give you a small glimpse into her volunteer life.

By Angie King
The WCC Board is getting organized a little earlier this year (we hope) and plans for this August’s Day with Creative Women are already well underway. This year, for the first time, WCC is collaborating with the county Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as co-sponsors of the daylong arts and crafts festival in Mission Plaza. Scheduled for the second Saturday in August, it will take place this year on August 14, 2010.
With the addition of the CSW, we have great hopes for an expanded, even more …