Women Who Reach

08/11/2021

22-year-old WASP pilot Shirley Slade in her flying helmet, goggles, and gloves, 1943.

(WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots)

08/06/2021

The Woman That Inspired a Poem That Inspired a Beer
It’s not every day that a beer is named after a hero. Brave Woman takes its moniker from a courageous Scottish woman who single-handedly saved fifteen sailors from a shipwrecked vessel over a century ago. Jane Whyte, a mother of nine, was walking the shoreline when she noticed the steamer, The William Hope, had been blown off course due to engine failure and a snapped anchor cable. Drifting perilously close to shoreline rocks and in danger of sinking, the desperate sailors of the vessel threw a lifeline out to Mrs. Whyte. She dashed into the freezing North Sea, wrapped the rope around herself three times and swam back to shore. Climbing out of the water, she anchored herself against the rocks and one by one, each sailor climbed the line to safety.

For this act of valor, Mrs. Whyte was honored by Queen Victoria and awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s Silver Medal. One of the surviving sailors, J.F. Nicholls, penned a poem in her honor—A Brave Woman. The year of the rescue was 1884. The brave woman was none other than Steve Finnie’s great-great grandmother.

(an excerpt)

God bless her she caught up with the rope, Sir, and in sight of the boisterous sea.

She wound it three times round her body, and up from the water went she.

And she beckoned us each to come quickly, we thought that would be but in vain.

‘For no woman alive’ we murmured; could stand such a terrible strain.

Try a delicious selection of beers, including hand-pulled cask ales, at this charming taproom in Rochester, MN. Scottish Ale by a Scotsman.

08/06/2021

50-80 years old.... so much fun.

A group of women, ranging in age from 50 to nearly 80, are making waves on the water at Smith Mountain Lake.

06/02/2021

Please call the Whittier Police Department (562) 945-8266 or use our anonymous tip line at (800)222-TIPS(8477)

Whittier Police Department

06/17/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-17/laura-macaulay-first-woman-surf-the-right-wa-margaret-river/12335856

Western Australia's Laura Macaulay does what no other woman has done — surf The Right, a wave so huge it has garnered a global reputation for being almost unsurfable.

06/07/2020

The fight against oppression and family or friends who would send a loved one to the Gulag to die. Lives lost for safeguarding freedom from oppressive rule.
17-year-old Lepa Radić was a Bosnian Serb who fought with the partisans during WWII but never got to see the N***s lose the war. In February 1943, Lepa was captured. The N***s tied a rope around her neck but offered her a way out. All she has to do is reveal her comrades'& her leaders' identities.
Lepa responded: “You will know them when they come to avenge me.”

05/10/2020

03/04/2020

During this we celebrate the women of the NYPD, like Officer Laura Zbikowski, who merged her love of open skies with her goal of helping people and found a unique career path where she gets to do both. Read more :
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NewsLocal NewsBrooklyn Actions Facebook Tweet Email Meet the female helicopter rescue pilot navigating the skies with the NYPD Posted: 7:09 PM, Feb 14, 2020 Updated: 2020-03-03 15:38:40-05 By: Elle Spektor , Michael Lee BROOKLYN — Laura Zbikowski is a tenacious aviator and rescue pilot with the Ne...