Rebecca Ramsey and Angela Grausz enjoy networking and shopping at a Real Deals on Home Decor Designing Divas Night Out event.

Real Deals on Home Décor’s Designing Divas Night Out is offering cool fashion and makeup ideas for hot summer days at its July event with a summer fashion show along with skin care and makeup tips from the experts.   The free event takes place 5:30 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 26 at the Real Deals on Home Décor Reno store, 1445 S. Meadows Pkwy., Suite 209, Reno. 

Misty Lacey of Queen Beez Unique Boutique will show the store’s fashions for all ages, and Dede Edwards and Amy Mutnan, skin care and makeup specialists from the medical spa at Hall and Wrye Plastic Surgeons, will present new ideas for looking great at every stage of life.    

“This month’s Designing Divas is dedicated to the proposition that women should be able to look and feel fabulous at any age,” said Judy DeLong, co-owner of Reno’s Real Deals on Home Décor with her husband, Bob DeLong.  

The monthly Designing Divas Night Out event offers the opportunity for women to learn from experts, network and enjoy friends, refreshments and shopping with additional discounts.  Real Deals on Home Décor offers a $5 cash card to Designing Divas Night Out attendees who bring a friend, and all attendees receive an additional 15 percent discount on every purchase at the event.   

Real Deals on Home Décor specializes in distinctive decorator items at bargain prices for every room in the home.  The Reno store is one of more than 90 across the country, all locally owned, benefiting from Real Deals’ international buying power. Store hours are limited: Thursdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 am to 3 p.m., but Real Deals is always stocked with an ever-changing array of pottery, artwork, metal wall sculpture, clocks, mirrors, birdcages, floral accents, rugs, pillows, tabletop items and furniture.

To RSVP or for more information, please contact Real Deals on Home Décor at 775-853-4303 or reno@realdeals.net.

Nancy Surina, Bev Mendoza and Barb Kallestad enjoy connecting and shopping at Designing Divas Night Out.

Real Deals on Home Décor’s Designing Divas Night Out is celebrating the arrival of summer at its June event with a Mystery Hostess gift card drawing.  Every attendee will be entered into the drawing, with the winner receiving a gift card that will be loaded with five dollars for every sale of the evening.  The free event takes place 5:30 to 7 p.m. with the drawing scheduled for 6:45 p.m., Tuesday, June 28 at the Real Deals on Home Décor Reno store, 1445 S. Meadows Pkwy., Suite 209, Reno. 

All Designing Divas will be able to sample delicious gourmet grilled cheese and dessert delights from GourMelt, one of Reno’s newest mobile gourmet trucks serving a selection of melt-in-your-mouth treats.   

The monthly Designing Divas Night Out event offers the opportunity for women to network and enjoy friends, refreshments and shopping with additional discounts.  “We dedicate the fourth Tuesday evening of every month to celebrating all of northern Nevada’s Designing Divas, and we encourage them to bring their friends to enjoy delicious food and our latest Real Deals on Home Décor finds,” said Judy DeLong, co-owner of Reno’s Real Deals on Home Décor with her husband, Bob DeLong.  

Real Deals on Home Décor offers a $5 cash card to Designing Divas Night Out attendees who bring a friend, and all attendees receive an additional 15 percent discount on every purchase at the event.   

Real Deals on Home Décor specializes in distinctive decorator items at bargain prices for every room in the home.  The Reno store is one of 70 across the country, all locally owned, benefiting from Real Deals’ international buying power. Store hours are limited: Thursdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 am to 3 p.m., but Real Deals is always stocked with an ever-changing array of pottery, artwork, metal wall sculpture, clocks, mirrors, birdcages, floral accents, rugs, pillows, tabletop items and furniture.

To RSVP or for more information, please contact Real Deals on Home Décor at 775-853-4303 or at Real Deals on Home Decor.  For more information on GourMelt, visit them at the GourMelt website.

Tami Ritz and Nicole Reel, Realtors and Certified Distressed Property Experts with Keller Williams Realty Group One, Inc., created New Start Nevada to help educate northern Nevadans who are threatened with foreclosure.

Founded by Realtors® and Certified Distressed Property Experts (CDPE) Tami Ritz and Nicole Reel, New Start Nevada is presenting a series of free workshops open to the community. “Our purpose is to bring greater understanding and solutions to foreclosure as well as provide a detailed explanation of short sales, which maybe be the best course of action for some homeowners,” said Ritz. RealtyTrac ranks Reno-Sparks ninth among U.S. metro areas in foreclosures, at one foreclosure filing in every 183 housing units in April, 2011, compared to one in 593 nationwide during the same month.

Panelists at the seminar include Reno real estate attorney Judith A. Otto, whose practice specializes in working with clients facing foreclosure, and Tami Ritz and Nicole Reel, Realtors with Keller Williams Realty Group One, Inc. Topics covered will include:
• Who qualifies for a short sale
• The difference between loan modifications, short sales and foreclosure
• Tax and credit implications
• Post-short sale recovery techniques
• How to avoid fraud in the distressed sales market

Attendees will be able to ask questions after the presentations and also will be given handouts including financial worksheet, sample hardship letter and contact information for resources.

“When the real estate market changed dramatically in our region, many homeowners were caught in financial and legal situations they’d never faced before,” said Reel. “Bringing dignified solutions to struggling homeowners in our community is our number one goal,”

More information and seminar registration are available at the New Start Nevada website or by calling 775-384-5445.

Participants in the Ghana breast cancer training course, January 2010, co-sponsored by the Breast Health Global Initiative and Ghana Breast Cancer Alliance.

Worldwide, breast cancer is a growing epidemic as women are living longer and communication and awareness of the disease increases. An estimated 1.5 million new cases will be diagnosed this year. Depending on where the woman lives, that may or may not be tantamount to a death sentence.

Founded almost a decade ago by breast cancer surgeon and University of Washington School of Medicine professor Dr. Ben Anderson and medical school program manager Leslie Sullivan, the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) seeks to bring a higher standard of breast healthcare to the world using an innovative model of collaboration with the best minds in breast cancer across the globe.

Communicating with clinicians in far-flung countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe, they have developed workable guidelines that match resources on the ground – however limited those resources may be.

The Breast Health Global Initiative is achieving groundbreaking goals in developing realistic guidelines matched to countries’ specific existing resources – from low- to mid-levels of services that might be accessible in developing countries. Much of the work of the Breast Health Global Initiative also involves education: overcoming stereotypes and dismissive attitudes about women’s health that keep a woman with a lump silenced in fear of losing her husband and children. Changing cultural stereotypes and introducing breast self-examination to low-income countries are just the beginning.

The Global Summit on International Breast Health, June 9-11, will bring together in Chicago doctors, nurses, public health educators and administrators from 40 countries and six continents. Co-sponsored by BHGI and the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Clinical Oncology, led by Dr. Eduardo Cazap, the Summit will assess best practices and surgical techniques for low-resourced locations and diagnostic tools where mammography and ultrasound may be far-fetched fantasies for the near future.

Dozens of scientific poster presentations at the Summit will allow clinical providers from around the world to show their research and outcomes – ideas that have worked in their corners of the globe and which may inspire others to try something new that may save more women’s lives. The Summit will bring together national and international organizations from around the world to address a central theme: to produce scientific and clinical publications that will serve as medical tools for low- and middle-resource countries in perpetuity, freely available via the internet.

The spirit of ingenuity and generosity that is at work in the Global Summit is exemplified in leaders such as Dr. Ben Anderson, Dr. Eduardo Cazap, Leslie Sullivan and others around the world who see a problem, overcome barriers and engage with counterparts across borders to work on real solutions.

Paula Fellingham, CEO, The WIN Radio

Part of a national radio network tour, The WIN Reno Girls’ Night Out is designed to build awareness of its online radio community of women helping women worldwide and to help women connect with one another. This is a free event (drinks are available at a no-host bar). Attendees will receive chocolate gifts and are eligible for prize giveaways.

The evening will be headlined by Paula Fellingham, The WIN CEO. Author of the best-selling Believe It! Become It! How to Hurdle Barriers and Excel Like Never Before, Fellingham is a former radio host and national speaker on women’s empowerment, business success and family life. The WIN Girl’s Night Out Reno is sponsored by Hidden Valley Country Club.

Additional presenters include:
• Rachel Flower, local host for The WIN’s Girl’s Night Out, and founder of Senssoma LLC, will offer tips on Living Your Brilliance
• Kymberlee Simantel, executive managing director of eWomenNetwork Reno/Carson/Tahoe chapter, will help you Connect to Success
• Schall Adams, founder of Girlfriend Mentors, will present Four Keys to an Amazing Life
• And, finally, I will be offering ideas on Amplifying Your Value through public relations.

If you’d like to learn more and meet women who are working to improve themselves, their businesses, families and communities, join us on April 7. Let’s do what women do so well: let’s connect!