The YWCA of Niagara's Niagara Award: A Tribute to Women will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 28 at The Conference Center-Niagara Falls. Twenty women have been nominated in eight categories.

  Those nominated include: Charyl Antkowiak, Anna Barrett, Brooke Bodine, Maria Brown, Marianna Cantella, Kelsey Comstock, Dr. Lyn M. Dyster, Ph.D., Clara Kroetsch (Posthumous recognition), Susan Manfredo, Mary B. Montani, Mariska Raglow-DeFranco, Haley Richbart, Rosemary Rongo, Bonnie Rose, Ph.D., Brittany Sample, Deborah Schutt, Barbara Scirto Sullivan, Caroline Wojtaszek, and Virginia Wolbert.

    The co-chairs for this year's event are Jane Schroeder and Flora McKenzie, members of the YWCA of Niagara Board of Directors. In 2009, 32 women were nominated in eight categories that include Education, Entrepreneur, Front Line, Health and Human Services, Management, Public Service, Youth and Lifetime Achievement.
   For more information on the Niagara Awards: A Tribute to Women, call 716-433-6714.

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