UNWLA Branch 30 holds elections, gears up for new season of activity (12/17/06)

UNWLA Branch 30 holds elections, gears up for new season of activity

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. - As a new season of work begins, Olia Rudyk has stepped down as president of Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) Branch 30 and Iryna Hoshovsky has taken up the reins. Ms. Hoshovsky has been a resident of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., for over 10 years. She moved there with her two sons, Victor and Andrew, after her husband, Bohdan, passed away in 1991.

Ms. Hoshovsky was formerly very active in the Ukrainian American Youth Association's New York chapter and has now been an active member of the UNWLA for several years.

She is the office manager for The Healing Clinic in Spring Valley, N.Y. (an alternative health-care facility), for the past 13 years under the medical direction of Dr. Volodymyr Buhayenko. She also specializes in live blood microscopy at this clinic. Recently she graduated from the Fire and Wind Healing Institute, an esoteric school of energy healings, where her forte included angelic energy balancing and past life regressions.

Ms. Hoshovsky's plans for UNWLA Branch 30 are just now being formulated. She wants to help raise funds for the many admirable and humanitarian projects run by the UNWLA, not to mention the support of the Ukrainian Museum in Manhattan and the organization's magazine "Our Life." Her first major event was the annual Christmas Bazaar and Art Exhibit scheduled for December 10 at St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Yonkers, N.Y. The featured artist was to be Bohdan Borzemsky, a master in the technique of woodcuts. Recently, through experimentation, he invented his own individual technique that he calls paper cuts, substituting heavy paper for wood. Mr. Borzemsky's source of inspiration is his childhood fascination with the Hutsul region of Ukraine and its inhabitants, whose folk art had a decisive influence on his art.

Other artists and vendors included Olia Basarab-Kolodij, a specialist in traditional Ukrainian gerdany; Daria Hanushevsky, an artist of Hutsul and Trypillian ceramics; Tracey Kuzemczak and her mother, Anna Evans, who create hand-crafted giftware for all occasions; and Oksana Lotocky, a professional floral arranger/designer.

Each year in January the ladies of Branch 30 socialize and catch up on their personal lives and family news. This year a dinner is planned on January 21, 2007, at the new Ukraina restaurant in Brooklyn. Anyone wishing to become a member of the organization or just spend a fun afternoon at a Ukrainian restaurant with the ladies of Branch 30 may call Olia Rudyk, 914-762-6514.

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