I haven't seen this mentioned yet and at the risk of stealing thunder from my friend, Susan Reece of the American Parkinson Disease Foundation, I thought that it might interst you to know this. Next weekend in Peoria, Il, at the riverfront-The Miller Midwest Jazz Heritage Festival will be held. They offer you 2 days of unrelentingly fabulous entertainment and this year the profits go to The American Parkinson Disease Association & the Arthritis Foundation. There is a wonderful article in the program with excerpts from a conversation with Susan Reece, the director of the APDA Midwest Chapter. Anyone who ever wanted to come visit beautiful Peoria, IL-this would be the time!! -- ________________ Joan E. Snyder 48/10 [log in to unmask] <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm> "Hang tough........no way through it but to do it." Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure)