WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARDS AND LUNCHEON
Click here to read the thank you letter from Kristin Calve.
 GUEST SPEAKER:
Profile of Ashleigh Banfield
Ashleigh Banfield, international television news correspondent, is perhaps most noted for her EMMY recognized live coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, as well as follow-up stories that took her to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, England, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Banfield is currently a correspondent for the ABC News programs 20/20, Good Morning America and Nightline. She was host of the program Ashleigh Banfield, Open Court and co-host of Banfield and Ford “Courtside” on TruTV (formerly Court TV). She also hosted the weekly evening program called “Hollywood Heat” and was the creator, co-producer, and host of the primetime special series “Disorder in the Court.” She has hosted live programs from locations across the country and around the globe and has anchored several prime time series such as “A Region In Conflict” and “Ashleigh Banfield: On Location.”
As a correspondent for NBC News, she appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Dateline. While anchoring MSNBC, she covered stories including the 2000 Election and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Prior to joining MSNBC, Banfield served as a news anchor in Dallas, Texas, but she began her career in 1988 as a photographer/ researcher/ reporter at CJBN in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. She then moved on to CKY in Winnipeg, and CFRN in Edmonton. . By 1991 she was covering the Bush/Gorbachev Summit in Russia and in 1992, the Clinton/Yeltsin Summit in Vancouver. She then joined CICT-TV, in Calgary before emigrating to the USA. Some of Banfield’s most noted interviews include Yasser Arafat, Martha Stewart, Hugh Grant, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, John McCain, Jane Fonda, Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump.
Banfield has been recognized twice by the Emmy Awards, and has earned a National Headliner Award, a Gracie Award, a Telly Award, a Texas Associated Press Award, and two Iris Awards.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and French from Queen’s University in Canada, and in 2009, Banfield completed a fellowship at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California.
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GOURMET COOKBOOK
Calling all Gourmet Groups, past and present! Or anyone, for that matter, who likes to eat great food!! The YWCA Darien/ Norwalk is proud to announce its second edition of Dinner At Eight, A Collection of Recipes from the YWCA Gourmet Group. read more..
2010 PUSH-N-PULL PARADE
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