The Women's Empowerment Luncheon gave expert advice on how professional women can balance their careers, families and health.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County is hosting its 18th annual Empowering Women Luncheon on Wednesday, bringing together 1,100 people to the Riverside Convention Center.

The featured speaker for the Aiken Standard’s Women Today luncheon on Oct. 17 encouraged the members of her audience not to be victims and to support each other through both good and bad times.

“It’s a ladies luncheon. We had to have the gentlemen serve for the ladies. Each year, the events get bigger and fancier,” Cora Jo Hummel says. President of the Victoria Symphony ...

Picture: Kevin Farmer At the Ladies Diamond Luncheon are (from left) Kayla Ferguson, Casey Child, Tammie Swalling, Sarah Hinrichsen and Montana Kelly hosted by Toowoomba Hospital Foundation at The ...