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Published: 18 September 2018 18 September 2018

20180918 mary jeminGirl Scouts of the Desert Southwest held their Annual Southern New Mexico Women Of Distinction event at the Hotel Encanto in Las Cruces last week. Honorees from this area are Barrette Brewer from Gila and Mary "Mikki" Jemin of Silver City. Past honorees of the Women of Distinction are Dianne Hamilton, Priscilla Lucero, Adrienne Dare, Mary Alice Murphy, Caroline Baldwin, and Sabrina Pack. Proceeds from the Women Of Distinction event provide scholarships and leadership experiences for girls.

Mary Jemin, better known as "Mikki," of Silver City has assisted women entrepreneurs and women's upward mobility for decades through her jobs in the Army Corps of Engineers. Immediately upon graduating from the University of Nevada in Reno with a degree in chemistry, she joined the American Association of University Women. Decades later, she continues to volunteer with this group with focus on connecting high school students with AAUW and Western New Mexico University mentors.

20180918 barrett brewerBarrett Brewer, a native of Tennessee, changed careers and homes several times before arriving in Gila, NM, where she founded and chairs the Grant County Community Foundation. She also established the first Mobile Food Pantry, serves on the Gila Valley Library Board, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Con Alma Health Foundation. She accomplished all of this with a degree in geology and English literature. These days, she is a book artist, creating one-of-a-kind and multi-edition "artist's books."

The Girl Scout experience gives young women the confidence and the tools to lead, to find, inside the uncertain girl, the citizen who will make a difference in her world. For more information on Girl Scouts contact Annette Toney 538-2481.