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In Focus: Agnes Shelton is 'Woman of Distinction'
By: Holli Melancon
CVEM Board President and Shedding Our Secrets member Agnes Shelton was honored as one of the Girl Scout’s Women of Distinction this month.
“Agnes represents the goodness in our community. She has taken her profession as a nurse and her everlasting faith into her community to show compassion for good mental and physical health and to include all ages and cultures in her pursuits,” said Vicky Partin, Lay Missioner.
“She not only models this goodness, she convinces the rest of us around her to join in and be glad for the opportunity to serve.”
Agnes is retired from a 40-year nursing career, but she continues to pour her heart and soul into volunteer work.
In addition to her work at CVEM, she is the former president of the Columbus Metro Black Nurses Association, a Golden Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and a volunteer with CASA and the American Heart Association.
In Shedding Our Secrets, she chairs the education committee, and she also chairs the Candlelight Vigil for Domestic Violence Roundtable.
She is also a member of the choir, vestry and lay reader at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church; a Docent for the Columbus Museum; a member of the Board for the Columbus State University Theatre; a founding member of the Columbus Metro Duplicate Bridge Club and member of the Challengers Bridge Club. Agnes also helps CVEM stick to its committment of being green. You can often find her going through the garbage can to find recyclable materials.
“Agnes’ spirit is compelling and contagious. We want to follow her when we see her goodness and faith at work,” Vicky said.
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Dismantling Racism Training

By: Denny Clark
In this year’s CVEM Easter Meditations, a mult-iracial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious set of authors reflect on the continuing subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) reality of racism in both church and society. This series lays the groundwork for a special CVEM-sponsored event in the Chattahoochee Valley -- Beloved Community: Dismantling Racism Training, to be held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2100 Hilton Avenue, Columbus, Saturday, June 14, 8:30-4:00. Breakfast and lunch will be provided by CVEM. The cost of the training itself is $20/person.
This event will be conducted by a team from the Commission for Dismantling Racism of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, led by Dr. Catherine Meeks, Chair of the Commission and an Easter Meditations contributor. The training focuses on conversation. Dr. Meeks says, “We are bound by fear – the fear of saying the wrong thing or of being misunderstood, even when we mean well…. This fear is immobilizing and prevents the formation of the beloved community, because that community cannot emerge without conversation.”
The Diocese requires all clergy and its staff to take this training, and highly recommends it for parish lay leaders and staff. Each Episcopal parish in the Chattahoochee Valley has been allotted a limited number of slots for this event. If you are interested in participating, please contact your parish priest. If a parish does not reserve all its allotted spaces by Monday, June 2, those spaces will be made available to people from other parishes.
Thank you for your commitment to forming the Beloved Community, in which each person is valued for one’s own unique identity, gifts, experiences and perspectives.
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Golfing for Good
We raised more than $3,500 in this year’s Golfing for Good tournament! This fundraiser goes toward the operations at CVEM, and we are so thankful for our many sponsors, friends, supporters and of course, players, who made our 3rd Golfing for Good a success! Thank you also to Ginia McPhearson, chair of the External Affairs committee, and her team for orchestrating this tournament flawlessly.
Below: Members of a team sponsored by Dr. Peggy Augustine were the Low Gross winners. They took home $100 gift cards for Maple Ridge Golf Course. Kristy Sholtis and Rosanna Borders collect prizes for the rest of their team, who were the Low Net winners.
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Tournament Sponsors:
•Chatt Glide Tours
•Agnes Shelton
•Denny Clark & Toni Fisher
•St. Thomas Prayer Group
•St. Thomas Episcopal Church
•West Georgia Orthodontics
•A&J Screen Printers
•St. Matthew’s in the Pines Episcopal Church
•Nicolson, Ray & Turner
•Xpress Printing
•Donna & Alex Gafford
•St. Lydia’s Guild
•Joseph Arnold, DDS, PC
•Hirsh & Partin Law
•B.R.I.D.G.E. of Columbus
•Silver Service, LLC/Emily Rosher
•St. Mary Magdelene Episcopal Church
•Brenda & Willie Dozier
•Valley Wood, Inc.
•Char-Broil
•Peachtree Liquors
•Dinglewood Pharmacy
•Callaway Blue
Bronze Sponsor:
•A&J Screen Printers
Friends:
•Cynthia Walker
•Glenda Bryant
•Pitts Enterprises, Inc.
•Celia Page
•Muffy Schladensky
Awards & Prizes:
•Chatt Glide Tours
•Char-Broil
•Columbus in the Valley Magazine
•Rivertown Toyota
•RKJ & Sons, LLC
•Goo Goo Express Wash
•Callaway Blue
•Dinglewood Pharmacy
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St. Thomas and CVEM team up to serve a meal at Circles in Columbus this month. Linda Prince, Alice Gammage, Rev. Grace Burton-Edwards and Vicky Partin are pictured above.
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