(Pssst) <whispering>  Errrrrr.. Art.... Ya better get ready to make a
fast virtual get away 'cause you're gonna have a buncha P-Od
Canadians chasing after ya for your comment on "the FOUR  Canadian
provinces."

Last I heard, there was still SIX provinces in Canada!  Do YOU know
something the rest of us DON'T know? <wicked grin>

Barb Mallut
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
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Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Support groups in Florida?


>At 12:36 PM 11/20/98 ,Bonnie Cunningham wrote:
>>FYI The number listed is no longer the number of the Parkinson
Outreach
>>Program (POP).  The new number for POP is our number at NPF
headquarters,
>>1-800-327-4545.
>>
>Pity, Bonnie - that old number was so easy to remember.
>
>Regarding SUPPORT GROUPS, I intend to announce this to the list in a
long
>and boring post shortly, but why hide it now?  When I started
posting the
>Forum fotos, I decided I needed links to other sites.  So I started
on what
>I thought was a novel way to present links.  My links work is not
complete,
>but some may still find it useful.
>
>On the way to completing the links work, I started to do the SUPPORT
GROUP
>page.  I found that there were several lists of support groups in
the U.S.
>- mostly one list from APDA and another from NPF.  They showed few
support
>groups in common.  My own group, DAPS (Dallas Area Parkinsonism
Society),
>over 500 members strong, showed up on neither.  Both lists contained
lots
>of clearly obvious errors.  So I stopped doing the links work and
started
>putting support groups into a useable form.
>
>At this writing, I have completed the first go-round on all states
except
>New York and Ohio; these should be finished this weekend.  I'll try
to
>proof it a bit more.  I'll be looking at PDF lists and adding in
Dale
>Severance's work as it becomes available.  I think that despite my
poor
>Parkinson-affected typing, there are many fewer errors in my tables
than in
>my source material, and it is more comprehensive, too.  So there's
no
>reason you couldn't be using it now.
>
>HOW DO YOU FIND IT?
>
>Go to my web site - see my signature below - and click on links.
When the
>links page comes up, scroll down to Organizations and click on
Support
>groups.  Scroll down on the page to find and choose the state
listings.
>
>HELP!
>
>Please help me find errors, omissions, misspellings, the whole nine
yards.
>There must be more support groups like mine which are missing
because they
>have not affiliated with NPF or APDA.  Many meeting times are
missing.
>Others may have changed.  There must be support groups outside of
the U.S.
>and four provinces of Canada.  And there might easily be hundreds of
>support groups where the contact name (and phone number) was (were)
correct
>last year but is (are) wrong today.  If you find anything like that,
>please e-mail me.
>
>In the same vein - any suggestions for the rest of the web site
would be
>appreciated too.
>
>.Thanks,
>
>Art
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>
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