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J _ h.: > > > wowe fi prlkes" S s y ols\ W Bs aft *Tj‘ m &2 ; ; is s SR ty 3N Fesll y C ul fd E séiv d _ 7 P laney. insy > ? h se â€" l . _i * /. ‘ m‘, 3 L“ a hnd ..’;fia" A -“:“ """ lt‘ : : NE _ 3 w t ©.%~ 3 i i; \ o Te o .e 3 K _ 5 b . esn N. â€" 9 e iss > hi. 1e â€" â€" Waaamaon, . .t T ~ P : â€" A g"_f J . 9 % : â€" / M . (aa w\ t & : _~"'j/$£“‘-’i~"f~:..'; | . SUBMITTED PHOTC From left: Bonnie Lynn Rudd, regional vice president of the Middlesex North East UCW; Eleanor Kittmer, president of Browns UCW: Joyce Tate, this year‘s Regional Woman of Distinction Award winner from the Middlesex Presbyterial UCW; and Helen Conway, Middlesex Presbyterial UCW president. Browns congregation member a Woman of Distinction‘ Tate wins UCW award â€" On Wednesday, Feb. 12, Middlesex Presbyterial of the United Church Women (UCW) held its annual meeting at the lovely Lambeth United Church. At the meeting, * Joyce Tate from Browns United Church near Medina was honoured with the Regional *WererorDrmction Anund S These awards are given out to members of the UCW who have been nominated by the members of their church and home UCW. Nominees to be honoured are selected by the followmg.cnteria: Involvement in local UCW; involvement in Presbyterial UCW; involvement in UCW projects or United Church projects; community involvement; and unique leac;lership roles. : Ihe nomination submitted by Browns UCW for J oyce Tate included the following: She had been a member for over 40 years. She has served as President for several terms, and has been Secretary for 14 years. Each year, she organizes and prints our yearly pmgrammes.,She collects pop can tabs for Ryerson Public School, and collects allt(‘i mails Campbell‘s Soup labels to Whitby for the school for the deaf. Joyce has been Regional Vice for the Northeast Region from 1994â€"97, Secretary frorq 1999-20_14, and Treasurer from 2001â€"04. She has organized and led worship at Regional Rallies and Presbyterial meetings." _ Other activities cited by the Browns UCW nomination include: Helping with Browns UCW‘s Harvest Bazaar in October: the church‘s Chicken Barbecue in July, when the congregation feeds over 1,000 people: as well as memorial teas and meals at the church. She and her husband, Clarence, are very involved with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank growing project. They o grow sweet com, zucchini and squash and deliver ~~She tutors children having difficulty in Math or them to the Men‘s Mission and the food bank in EnSgl}?SLu tg;%“f{,‘f,gf%fivllgfxning delays or probâ€" | London, the House of Blessing in Stratford, and lems. She has been a translator for older youth the Salvation Army Food Bank in St. Marys. writi;xg tests for Diplomas for further education in In terms of community involvement, Tate has ;. trades and the workforce. been a volunteer canvasser for the Canadian Canâ€" cer Society‘s Oxford region for 46 years. For 44 years, she has been an Area Captain, which inâ€" Mar. 57 cludes finding volunteers to collect on eight local roads, four miles long, and the villages of Unionâ€" dale, Medina and Harrington, delivering their kits, picking them up, and taking them to Thamesford. Yournal Argus