NOMINATING ROBIN RITZLER

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 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.

Robin has been on the Women's Community Center Board of Directors
since 2004, where she has personally been an inspiration to me. I
have observed her dedication to the tasks, her uplifting attitude, her
compassion and her work ethic; all of which is very contagious!

She is the coordinator of the Family Law Action programs of the WCC,
and, as such, oversees the monthly seminar meetings on divorce issues,
runs the monthly legal clinic, which provides legal advice to women,
and their families, who need help, but cannot afford an attorney.
Robin is the force behind all these programs. She makes the calls,
sets up the appointments and attends the seminars and clinics, always
arriving early to set up and staying late to clean up after.


As a professional mediator and owner of her own divorce mediation
business, she sometimes donates time either to the Court for mediation
of small claims cases or as a guest speaker to talk about conflict
resolution.
Robin has developed a new program with the Women's Community
Center called B.E.T.T.E.R. Supervised Vistitation. (Building Enduring
Ties That Enrich Relationships) This program allows anyone in our
county to obtain affordable supervised visitation as ordered by the
Court. She has trained several volunteers to become monitors, has
developed all the paperwork necessary, and has the ball rollilng to
begin this project in the next few weeks.

Every year the WCC celebrates our major fundraiser: "Day with Creative
Women" in Mission Plaza. It is Robin who organizes the vendors, the
volunteers, the city permits, the decorations, traffic and a million
other details, making each year a huge success and loads of fun.
Robin also picks up the Women's Press newspaper, the WCC publication,
bimonthly, from the printer in Santa Maria, loading 6.000 copies into
her van and unloading them at the WCC in SLO, often without help.

She also volunteers every Christmas Day with her husband Paul at the
Odd-Fellows Hall in San Luis helping to feed the homeless. She
arrives two hours before dinner is served, and stays to help clean up
after.
Robin is a brilliant, fun and wonderful woman, and as our WCC
president Angie King said, " Robin Rinzler uses her considerable
intellect and education to rationally determine a course of action and
then follows through".
We are hoping, with much love, and fingers crossed that Robin wins
this most deserving award!!


Sonia Paz Baronvine
WCC Board Member