Creative Memories is pleased to announce that Mavis Shucka of Long Beach has advanced a leadership level in her Creative Memories career. She became a unit leader on Jan. 1.

Shucka started her Creative Memories home-based business in 2000. Creative Memories Consultants who achieve the unit leader level have recruited six or more consultants into their unit, maintained a consistent level of personal sales and provided ongoing training, leadership and recognition to unit members.

With this promotion, Shucka has advanced into the top 5 percent of Creative Memories leaders. Shucka will receive national recognition this year at the Creative Memories national convention in Minneapolis.

Creative Memories is an international direct-selling company headquartered in St. Cloud, Minn. It offers photo-safe scrapbook albums, supplies and hands-on workshops. Creative Memories originated the direct-selling photo preservation concept in l987 and continues to lead the industry. The company has more than 50,000 consultants in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Australia, Taiwan and Germany who teach people how to organize their photographs and memorabilia, how to chronicle their family history, and how to create safe and meaningful family scrapbook photo albums.