Margaret:  Thanks for visiting us here at the Parkinsaw, MI web site, and for the
good words.  We're paricularly pleased that you enjoyed the experience and came
away a happier person.  I bet you stopped off at the Northern Lights and sampled
some of that delicious Levodopa brew.  I certainly agree that with all the horror
and strife in the real world today, it's theraputic to visit a wacky community
like Parkinsaw, if only for a little while.

We're very happy to offer the Virtual Canisters to help the PRO-Seed Grants;
every little bit helps as the saying goes.

Thanks again, Margaret.  We hope you'll return often to Parkinsaw, MI.

John Bjork.
To Visit the entire web site:  www.mikeauldridge.com/parknsaw.htm

To go directly to the Thousand Pennies for Parkinson's:
www.mikeauldridge.com/parknsaw.htm#Section10

Margaret Tuchman wrote:

> Dear John Bjork,
>
> I just came back from a visit to your Parkinsaw, MI village website. I
> am a happier person for having had a chance to spend some time and get
> to know the
> regulars. It is not a bad place to escape to when the real world gets
> to be a bit much.
>
> I want to thank you for setting up a satellite to collect money for
> PRO-Seed Grants -- it is a real neighborly thing to do.
>
> I urge all you "grounded" people to take a leap into the fantasy land
> that John has created and enjoy yourselves. Go to:
> http://www.mikeauldridge.com/parknsaw.htm#Section10 and, don't leave
> without taking part in the "A Thousand Pennies for Parkinsons" offer
> that John is providing.
>
> Wish you the best,
> Margaret
>
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> Parkinson Alliance                                      Margaret Tuchman
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parkinson's Information Exchange
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of john bjork
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:50 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Dateline Parkinsaw, MI: A View from the Lighter Side of PD,
> May
> 6, 1999
>
> SNIP
>
>  In a more serious vein, nothing worth while in this life comes to us
> without a cost.  Although the humorous stories we write about the
> fictitious happenings in Parkinsaw are provided free of charge, we
> need
> your support to make our grass roots fund-raising activity work.  The
> Parkinson Alliance, within the National Parkinson Foundation, has
> initiated a "Pennies for Parkinson's" campaign.  This campaign is
> designed to support funding for 100 high-quality grants for each of
> the
> next two years, with a goal to find a cure for this dreadful disease.
> To keep within the spirit of the "Pennies for Parkinson's" theme, we
> offer our program of Virtual Canisters on our web site to enable those
> individuals who enjoy reading Parkinsaw, MI: A View from the Lighter
> Side of PD, to make a minimum contribution of One Thousand Pennies.
> To
> relieve you of the arduous task of collecting, packing and mailing all
> these pennies, we simply ask you to send a check for $10 made out to
> Parkinson Alliance to us here at the Parkinsaw, MI collection center,
> for forwarding on to Washington.  We want the checks to come here
> first
> so we'll know how well Parkinsaw, MI collection efforts are doing.
> For
> more details, just click-on the "Thousand Pennies for Parkinson's"
> selection on the main menu of the web site.  (For Listserv members,
> the
> web site is at www.mikeauldridge.com/parkinsaw/htm)
>
> Well it's getting to be that time of day again when the deer start
> peeking out from the jack pine wondering which shrub they're going to
> eat.  Everyone, of course, has tall fences around their gardens to
> keep
> the lovely but destructive creatures out.  Between the deer and the
> geese they can really mess up a yard.  We're going to meet at the
> Northern Lights microbrewery tonight for couple Levodopa brews, and
> we'll be back with you in a week or so.  Remember:  Don't let PD
> destroy
> God's gift of your smile, laugh and sense of humor.
>
> John Bjork