In the 2011, Jay Patterson was named “Hero of the Year” by the Center’s Board of Directors. After neck surgery, she rode 2,000 miles and hosted a “Swinging at AIDS” golf event in Kansas to raise $10,000 to benefit the Center’s free clinic for Women and Children in rural India. Since visiting India, she has been untiring in her efforts for the “Friends of Namakkal,” seeking to alleviate AIDS among India’s most impoverished.  She was greeted with fire trucks and balloons when she rode into her hometown of La Veta, Colorado.