Linda Fry, Central Indiana Regional President, passed away just a few days before Christmas from a massive stroke.  She was at home and was treated immediately, including being airlifted to a major care center but within a couple of days she passed away.  Our deepest sympathies are extended to her parents, her daughter (Ulyssa) and all of her PWP friends/family in CIRC.  Linda was a firm believer in the aims of PWP and especially enjoyed FITAP activities and served as Zone and International FITAP Chairperson several times. 

Linda will be missed by all.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Parents Without Partners Receives 2012 Best of Providence Award

Providence Award Program Honors the Achievement

PROVIDENCE November 6, 2012 -- Parents Without Partners has been selected for the 2012 Best of Providence Award in the Social Service Organizations category by the Providence Award Program.

Each year, the Providence Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Providence area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2012 Providence Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Providence Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Providence Award Program

The Providence Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Providence area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The Providence Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

SOURCE: Providence Award Program

CONTACT:
Providence Award Program
Email: PublicRelations@awardprogram.org
URL: http://www.awardprogram.org

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Mary first heard about PWP in the United States of America from a Dr. Eric Benjamin who was associated with the Supporting Mothers Association. Mary was President of that organisation but the Constitution of that group would not accept unmarried mothers, deserted fathers, widowers, or women who were the guilty party in a divorce.There really was not an organisation for single parents and their children and when she heard about PWP she applied to the American chapter who offered assistance in forming PWP in Victoria. So Mary and June and 14 others worked for seven months to set up the inaugural meeting and so PWP in Victoria was formed.

Forty five years later PWP is now in all States of Australia and the ACT. Mary has never regretted that she had taken on the role of the first President of PWP Victoria with a faithful band of helpers and June Reeder and felt that with an association behind them they could handle the negative comments about single parents in the community. At that time single parents were very much ostracised by the community and the children were often called 'latch key kids'.

Mary never envisaged that single people would be about one-fifth of the Australian population when she gave an interview with June Reeder in our 30th Anniversary "SOLO” and today the numbers are even higher.

Mary was very proud of PWP with its welfare activities, emergency housing, op shops and all the branches and attributed PWP’s growth to all the wonderful volunteers over the years who have worked so hard to make PWP what it is today – a respected organisation in the community.

PWP Victoria did a great deal to obtain the pension for lone fathers as well as females in Australia and she thought that the Australian government would one day not be able to hand out assistance to lone parents until the youngest child reached 16 years of age which will now occur when the youngest child reaches the age of 8 when the custodial parent will have to go out to work.

Mary was always interested in all that went on in PWP Victoria and attended our state meetings and was heavily involved in PWP Community Services in the last few years of her life and always sent a donation to both these associations on a half yearly basis. She said that as a Life Member she had to support PWP until she was no longer with us.

Farewell to a wonderful lady who was always ready to listen and give her wise advice to anyone who telephoned or spoke to her.

We will miss this marvellous lady who devoted her life to helping others in PWP and the wider community also.