This year, the YWCA of Kitsap County celebrates 26 years of honoring local women for their achievements.

Amy Burnett was the first woman honored as a YWCA Woman of Achievement in 1989. Amy was recognized for her work in the community and for helping to support the future of the YWCA in Kitsap County.

Amy Burnett’s “Time Circle of a Woman” is the artwork that brands every YWCA Women of Achievement event. Amy created this piece of art in 1988 and sold limited edition prints, the proceeds from which went directly to support the YWCA of Kitsap County.

Since 1989, Kitsap community members have nominated and honored more than 300 extraordinary women for the YWCA Women of Achievement Award.

This is a day for celebrating women and what they bring to our community and to show our community’s support for the YWCA — just as Amy Burnett did more than 26 years ago.

The 26th Annual Women of Achievement Luncheon is noon to 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 at the Kitsap Conference Center in Bremerton.

This year’s Women of Achievement honorees are: State Representative Michelle Caldier, the Honorable Kate Carruthers, Judy Eagleson, Kate Espy, Rosie Ludlow, the Honorable Leila Mills, Tyna Ontko, Alexus Richardson, Betty Skinner and Blanche Wynne.

Special recognition will be given to the late Adele Ferguson, and there will also be a special announcement on the Linda Joyce Legacy Endowment.

For more information, visit http://www.ywcakitsap.org/node/18.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Sound Publishing’s Special Section, “Women of Achievement.”