By Sherri Buri McDonald
The Register-Guard
 
Published: Nov 14, 2008 09:31AM
 

 
Kevin Clark/The Register-Guard

Lorraine Kerwood (center), executive director of NextStep Recycling, is named the winner of the Woman Business Leader of the Year award at the Hilton Eugene.

 
 
Lorraine Kerwood, founder of a Eugene nonprofit that recycles computers, gratefully accepted the Woman Business Leader of the Year award on Thursday, and then issued a challenge to the group of women business owners and professionals who had just honored her.
“What I’d love to see is that this group start some kind of mentorship for women in our community,” Kerwood said. She urged the crowd of 160 people to go out and be mentors to women