{"id":19326,"date":"2026-05-07T16:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:11","slug":"toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"TOLEDO Chapter of Top Ladies of Distinction Returns Victorious from Area V Conference."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19335\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19335 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-370x214.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top Ladies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Special to The Truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. \u2013 Toledo Chapter is celebrating a remarkable achievement after returning home with multiple honors from the Area V Conference held March 26-29 in Cleveland Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Under the dynamic leadership of President Lady Wanda Galloway, the Toledo Chapter earned an impressive five awards, highlighting the chapter\u2019s commitment to excellence, service, and community impact.<\/p>\n<p>Among the honors received:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jefferey P King Award- Lady Clara L. Petty<\/li>\n<li>President\u2019s Award- Lady Wanda Terrell Galloway<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Award- Toledo Chapter<\/li>\n<li>Caring and Sharing Award- Lord Darryl Reed<\/li>\n<li>Top Teens T-Shirt competition \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These prestigious recognitions reflect the Toledo Chapter\u2019s unwavering dedication to uplifting the community through service initiatives, youth development, and impactful programming.<\/p>\n<p>President Galloway expressed pride in the chapter\u2019s accomplishment, noting that the awards are a testament to the hard work, unity, and passion of its members. This win represents the heart of our organization, service, leadership, and commitment to making a difference, she shared.<\/p>\n<p>The Area V Conference brough together chapters from across the region to celebrate achievements, exchange ideas, and strengthen the mission of Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>As they return home, the ladies along with their Top Teens remain focused on continuing their legacy of excellence and service within the Toledo Community.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19326 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/clara-petty\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clara-Petty-300x278.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clara-Petty-300x278.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clara-Petty-270x250.jpg 270w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Clara-Petty.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5039\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5039-300x194.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5039-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5039-370x239.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5039.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5097-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5097-1-300x177.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5097-1-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5097-1-370x218.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5097-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5104\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5104-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5104-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5104-333x250.jpg 333w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5104.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5143\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5143-300x202.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5143-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5143-370x250.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5143.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5168\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5168-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5168-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5168-333x250.jpg 333w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5168.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/img_5239\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5239-300x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5239-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5239-370x250.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5239.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/top-ladies\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-300x173.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies-370x214.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-Ladies.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19335'>\n\t\t\t\tTop Ladies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/toledo-chapter-of-top-ladies-of-distinction-returns-victorious-from-area-v-conference\/wanda-terrell-galloway\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Wanda-Terrell-Galloway-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Wanda-Terrell-Galloway-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Wanda-Terrell-Galloway-188x250.jpg 188w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Wanda-Terrell-Galloway.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth The Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. \u2013 Toledo Chapter is celebrating a remarkable achievement after returning home with multiple honors from the Area V Conference held March 26-29 in Cleveland Ohio. Under the dynamic leadership of President Lady Wanda Galloway, the Toledo Chapter earned an impressive five awards, highlighting the chapter\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[346],"class_list":["post-19326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}