La Donna Womochel When you are a newcomer to an area, there are so many things that you must do just to get comfortable in your new home. You must find a doctor, a dentist, the nearest grocery store, and someone who cuts your hair the way you want. So, sometimes important things like taking…
Jane Scholz Voices United (VU) members marched as a group for the first time this year in the Robson Independence Day Parade. To make their contingent stand out and provide a platform for those who could not walk in the heat, Chris Laffey, committee head, volunteered her husband’s imposing black pickup, and the VU social…
Voices Women Tour Dallas Holocaust Museum for Jewish Heritage Month Janie Cindric May is Jewish American Heritage Month, so to further our understanding of the Jewish experience, Robson Voices United members visited the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The trip was sponsored by our Diversity in Action Committee. The docent-led tour of the Holocaust…
Vicki Baker Beautiful and flawless? Nah! Strong and imperfect? You bet! Women have always been the bedrock of every aspect of our lives. March, designated as Women’s History Month, is the perfect time to express our gratitude and forge closer relationships with women. It’s a time to recognize the achievements and contributions of women to…
Jane Scholz Voices United members learned how to select, put on, wear, and, most importantly, clean a sari, from one of their own at the April monthly meeting. Rupa Mathur, a Robson resident and Voices member who is a native of India, told the group about the sari (also saree) worn by women on the…
Jane Scholz Members of the Voices United Diversity Committee met on Good Friday to discuss the 2019 book Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD. The book is filled with reports of scientific studies, many of which were very eye-opening. But the book also included…
Tiffany Ramzy VU Hosts Guest Speaker from Cumberland Youth & Family Services. Voices United (VU) regularly hosts a monthly meeting and luncheon at the clubhouse on the first Saturday of every month. During these meetings, each committee gives a report, and there is often an outside guest speaker. On Nov. 5 the guest speaker was…
Tiffany Ramsey and Deb Williams For all of you Seinfeld fans, you may remember their hilarious episode about “Festivus”—a made-up holiday that provided a lot of laughs for the audience. Well, Voices United (VU) has been hosting its own annual Festivus celebration. Thanks to Jane Thompson and Susan Engstrom, Social Committee co-chairs, this year’s celebration was held…
Jackie Ford Eight members of Voices United (Jackie Ford, Elaine Kushmaul, Marriott Terry, Jane Scholz, Sara Shibley, Phyllis Ayers, Diane Van Naerssen, and Tiffany Ramzy), as a part of a Diversity in Action committee activity, went to see the A-rated movie The Woman King. The Woman King is a fascinating, arousing, and majestic historical epic based…
Tiffany Ramzy Looking for a way to give back? Looking for a way to make a difference? There is a local organization that has found a unique way to get money flowing into worthy causes. On July 9, during the monthly general meeting of Voices United, Renee Sims, co-founder of 100 Dentonites Who Give a…