{"id":178,"date":"2015-08-13T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:31:22","slug":"womens-equality-day-reformed-praises-costanzo-restiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Equality Day Reformed Praises Costanzo and Restiano"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day's theme said it all. Pro-life Feminism: A Light Shines for 95 Years<\/strong><\/em>. Pro-life icon Elizabeth 'Liz' Costanzo, formerly of Hastings-on-Hudson and now Rhode Island was awarded the Women's Equality Day Reformed Mott-Stanton-Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award, while well-known citizen of Yonkers, Vincenza 'Vinni' Restiano was its most-deserving 2015 Honoree and Woman of the Year.<\/p>\n

This memorable celebration of women's voting rights and pro-life feminism at the County Board of Legislator's Michaelian Building, marked the 95th anniversary of the Federal Ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. It was the fourteenth year for this reformed ceremony in White Plains, New York.<\/p>\n

The event has quite a history. For 28 years Westchester County honored specific women on this occasion, but excluded any professional woman if she was pro-life. Imagine, on the occasion of women's voting rights deliberately excluding half the eligible female population in the County because they voted their conscience. Prior to the first reformed event, held in justice to offset almost thirty years of banned recognition, co-chairperson Regina Riely sued Westchester County for trying to block WEDR's use of the building, and won a $10,000 settlement from the County, and an allowing of this annual ceremony with at least one Board member's support and presence. This year the Honorable Gordon A. Burrows, the Honorable Sheila Marcotte, and the Honorable Michael Smith were present and shared Proclamations for Liz and Vinni from some of the members of the County Board of Legislators.<\/p>\n

Women want their voices and ideas to be heard and pro-life feminism has deep roots with many of the early suffragettes writing and speaking on behalf of women's voting rights, greater elevation in society, and against abortion on behalf of the child in the womb. The day began early on the 9th Floor.<\/p>\n

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The group begins to gather in anticipation<\/p>\n

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Brigid Faranda is our award artist-in-residence<\/p>\n

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That spunky Vinni gives us a rousing vote of confidence<\/p>\n

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Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett reads Liz Costanzo's award, accepted by Alice Hughes on behalf of Liz who was unable to join us in person<\/p>\n

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Alice reads a personal note of thanks from Liz<\/p>\n

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Sister Mary Joseph Powers, OP of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne at Rosary Hill was the day's keynote speaker on critical end of life issues                               <\/p>\n

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Previous Honorees included Christine Mortell Plazas, here with Dr. Elizabeth Rex of The Children First Foundation whose Choose Life license plate supports adoption <\/p>\n

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Here is Mrs. Dorothea Muccigrosso, outstanding educator and previous Honoree<\/p>\n

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Mother Mary Francis of Rosary Hill gave the Invocation<\/p>\n

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Alice Hughes talks of Amy Boissonneault whose image of the stages of a woman's life is the WEDR logo<\/p>\n

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Brigid Faranda presents the 2015 award to Woman of the Year Vincenza Restiano<\/p>\n

Watch for other postings in LifeNet<\/em><\/strong> on this day's events!<\/p>\n

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The day's theme said it all. Pro-life Feminism: A Light Shines for 95 Years. Pro-life icon Elizabeth 'Liz' Costanzo, formerly of Hastings-on-Hudson and now Rhode Island was awarded the Women's Equality Day Reformed Mott-Stanton-Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award, while well-known citizen of Yonkers, Vincenza 'Vinni' Restiano was its most-deserving 2015 Honoree and Woman of the Year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}