5 receive awards as Community Builders

The Utah Women's Alliance for Building Community recently announced its Community Builders Award winners.

• Ljubica Roth, CEO Utah Peace Institute, which helps minority and at-risk youths increase their community participation. The youths Roth has helped have made presentations before the United Nations and first lady Laura Bush.

• Leslie Kelen, executive director of the Center for Documentary Arts, for producing "Crossing the Tracks," a multimedia project addressing the cultural separation between the people on the east and west sides of Salt Lake.

• Wendy Bird of the My Princess and Pearls with a Purpose Foundation, an organization that helps to improve living conditions of women in remote areas of the Philippines. This is done by training them in skills that enable them to create quality pearl jewelry to be sold in the United States.

• The Rev. Jan Ewing of the Church of Religious Science, a Midvale church that initiated "Season for Nonviolence" in Utah, an interfaith tribute to Martin Luther King and Gandhi, celebrated in April.

Also, the Phyllis LeFevre Award for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Dr. Joyce Brown for her work helping grief-stricken families, preventing suicides and helping others overcome anger and grief. She began a nonprofit organization, Grief Relief Now Inc., and served others despite undergoing the pain of an automobile accident and symptoms of muscular dystrophy.