ANGIE KING STEPS DOWN AS HEAD OF WCC

Angie King steps down as head of Women's Community Center
Sonia Paz Baronvine to take helm


After more than 10 years as President of the Board of Directors of Women's Community Center ( WCC ),
Angie King announced her resignation at the January 2011 Women's Community Center Board meeting. King, who retired from her position as Director of Senior Legal Services in 2008, has a distinguished career in women's issues, for which she has been recognized with the San Luis Obispo County Bar Association John L.Seitz Award in recognition of community service, 2002; the League of Women Voters' Mary Rhodes Leadership Award, and Cuesta College's -Woman of Distinction Award, 1999

The incoming board president, Sonia Paz Baronvine has been a Women's Community Center Board Member since 2007 Nx hZ organized the all day entertainment at Day With Creative Women, the annual craft fair and fundraiser the Women's Community Center presents each year in August at the SLO Mission Plaza. She is also the current editor of the Women's Press, the Women's Community Center bi-monthly newspaper. Ms Baronvine is the founder and president of Mellowswan Foundation, a medical charitable international all volunteer non-profit foundation that helps orphans with deformities worldwide to attain medical care.

In addition to leadership changes, Women's Community Center also has a new home in a more central downtown location (1124 Nipomo St. Suite D )
The SLO County Law Library has agreed to house their monthly legal clinic for self represented litigants; and this past year saw the creation of a new service program BETTER (Building Enduring Ties That Enrich Relationships), providing low cost community based monitors for court ordered supervision visitation following divorce.
Programs for 2011 include the above, plus a "makeover" program for clients of the Women's Shelter Program, who will receive fashion assistance when returning to the workforce.
King says of her tenure at Women's Community Center, " A lot has happened in those ten years. Women's Community Center stabilized its infrastructure and budgets, expanded its programs activities, including the Family Law Action Commitee programs, and administered on-going grant awards from both public and private sources. During this time WCC also collaborated with a number of other local womane's organizations to produce succesfull seminars on improving women 's financial literacy." King added, " I think we have set up a base that will foster lasting relationship among those groups serving women in our county."