Zonta Regional Conference

Grand Island Dispatch, April 6, 2007

Bonnie Clesse, left, and Joyce Jones of the Niagara Falls Zonta Club show off Zonta T-shirts that were for sale at the recent regional workshop held last Saturday at the Buffalo Launch Club.			A display shows some of the many activities of the Zonta Club, an international service organization of professional women.
	The Grand Island Zonta Club hosted a regional women’s health workshop last weekend at the Buffalo Launch Club. The theme was “Body, Mind and Zonta Spirit – Phenomenal Women.” Topics included, “Your Heart Health,” presented by Kelly Fitzgerald, director of Cardiac Rehab at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center; “Spine and Back Pain Prevention,” presented by Terry Rose, director of physical therapy at NFMMC; “Breast Cancer – What You Really Need to Know and Do,” by Patricia Beecher, R.N., of the American Cancer Society; “Advocacy: What it Means and How to Use it,” by Zonta Awareness and Advocacy Committee Co-Chair Connie Deckert; and a makeup demonstration by Mary Margaret Conley of the Lockport Zonta Club. (photos by Karen Keefe)
			Janet Kister Penny of the St. Catharines Zonta Club puts a ticket in one of the raffle baskets that the women of the Grand Island Zonta Club prepared as a fund-raiser for their scholarship program.
Grand Island Zonta Club President Maria Burns, left, with Zonta Area 3 Director Polly Redanz of Niagara Falls and keynote speaker Amy Fleischauer of the Insternational Institute in Buffalo. Fleischauer spoke about “Human Trafficking on the Local and Global Levels.”			Grand Island Zonta member and REMAX Associate Broker Linda Kutzbach, right, is seen with Zonta Region 4 Governor Sandy Travers.