[Durham INC] Durham Hosts Women's Forum March 15

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy Blalock

Sr. Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 11253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at DurhamNC.gov

 

 

 

For Immediate Release: March 1, 2012

 

 

 

Durham Hosts Women's Forum March 15

Event Celebrates Six Durham Women for their Contributions to the
Community; 

Reception R.S.V.P. Requested by March 12

 

What:              10th Annual Women's Forum - "Celebrating Women's
History Month"

 

Who:               City of Durham Human Relations Division with the
Neighborhood Improvement Services Department

 

When:             Thursday, March 15, 2012

Reception at 5 p.m. 

Forum from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

 

Where:            Durham City Hall

                        Council Chambers

                        101 City Hall Plaza, 1st Floor

Durham, N.C.  27701

 

Fast Facts:

*         Six successful Durham women will share their personal
experiences and insights on how they mastered challenges and overcame
obstacles on their roads to success. Event attendees will also have an
opportunity to ask questions of the panelists.

 

*         Panelists include Nancy Wykle, editor of The Herald-Sun; Wanda
Page, deputy city manager with the City of Durham; Deidre Haj, executive
director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Cynthia Penn,
executive director of the Walltown Children's Theatre; Yesenia L.
Polanco-Galdamez, an attorney with Velazquez and Associates; and Dr.
Tara L. Fikes, president of the Alpha Zeta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Inc. 

 

*         The forum is free and open to the public. The forum will also
be broadcast live on DTV8 (Time Warner Cable channel 8). 

 

*         For more information about this year's forum, or to R.S.V.P.
to attend the reception on or before March 12, contact Delilah
Donaldson, human relations manager for the City's Human Relations
Division with the Neighborhood Improvement Services Department, at (919)
560-4107, extension 34277 or via email at 
Delilah.Donaldson at DurhamNC.gov.  

 

About the Neighborhood Improvement Services Department

The Neighborhood Improvement Services Department works to preserve and
improve quality of life conditions for Durham residents, and to
encourage active participation in neighborhood redevelopment and public
policy and decision making dialogue. The department is responsible for
enforcement of quality of life ordinances and state statutes including
the City's Minimum Housing Code; Nonresidential Code; Weedy Lot,
Abandoned and Junk Vehicle ordinances; and the State of North Carolina's
Unsafe Building Statute. The department's rapid responders, known as the
Impact Team, remediate non-compliant housing properties; abate public
nuisances, such as litter, graffiti, illegal dumping, and abandoned
shopping carts; and conduct neighborhood service projects. The
department's Community Engagement staff provides outreach and education
to Durham residents and community organizations. Guided by the City's
Strategic Plan, the department helps ensure that Durham has thriving,
livable neighborhoods by providing the highest quality of services to
engage and educate the community, eradicate blight, ensure safer
neighborhoods, and enhance neighborhood revitalization. For more
information, visit http://DurhamNC.gov/ich/cb/nis/Pages/Home.aspx. 

 

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