Hartford – Theresa Ireland, a Hartford resident, received the 2011 United Way Community Campaign Courage Award at a luncheon June 20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hartford.

The Courage Award is presented annually to an individual who has shown outstanding courage and perseverance in overcoming adversity, with help from a local program supported by contributions to United Way Community Investment through the United Way Community Campaign.

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Manchester resident Rowena Stough, a sexual abuse survivor who now counsels other survivors, received the United Way Community Campaign’s 2010 Courage Award at a festive luncheon held today at Lincoln Culinary Institute. Stough was nominated for the award by Sexual Assault Crisis Service (SACS), a program of the YWCA of New Britain and selected to receive the award by a panel of community volunteers.

The United Way Community Campaign presented its 2009 Courage Award to William J. Frye of New Britain during Jumpstart 2009, a training event for volunteer campaign coordinators held Wednesday, June 24, at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford.