Packed auditorium - LEAF Breakfast 2008
It was another successful and well-planned fundraising event for LEAF - LEGAL EDUCATION ACTION FUND - an organization that raises funds for LEAF to tackle precedent setting cases on behalf of women's equality. Betty Hopkins is the chair and life-blood of LEAF Manitoba. She works on this stuff full time. Thanks to Betty.
Only in Winnipeg will you see people, mostly women who will come out in large numbers to attend a LEAF Breakfast fundraiser at 7:30 a.m.
Give a shout out to the wonderful Winnipeg Women.
There were more than 900 participants at LEAF's 16th Annual LEAF Breakfast and for the first time there was a male speaker, former RBC top guy, Charles S. Coffee, O.C. who proudly claimed to be an honorary woman because of his advocacy on for women's equality of opportunity and fostering gender understanding. He shared the stage with one of Canada's best journalists, Sally Armstrong, C.M. It was a riveting morning. Many people left the two hour event feeling as if they had been refreshed and ready to feel the chill and face what's up ahead - head-on.
The Winnipeg Convention Centre on York and Donald streets in Winnipeg was a buzz with the warmth of human action for good.
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