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Dear List Members: I would appreciate hearing from people on the list in the next day or two about how much support we can anticipate via our cow, The Boca Bovine, in Cow Parade New York 2000. If you go to our web site at www.cureparkinsons.org you can see a picture of the cow and additional information. In short, the Boca Raton Resort & Club is sponsoring the cow on behalf of Take Charge America - Cure Parkinson's, Inc. The cow is one among close to 500 life size fiberglass cows on the streets of New York. Last year in Chicago there was a similar event. One cow sold at auction for $110,000. Oprah Winfrey bought 3 of them. This event, in addition to the money we can raise for Parkinson's research can generate considerable publicity about Parkinson's. Visit our site. Take the hyperlink to our sponsor. You may win a stay at a resort in South Florida. I need to know that people on the ListServe have read my post and have visited the web site. My intention is to have donations sent in advance and have on hand at Bryant Park, for those people who sent in donations, tee-shirts with our cow. As per the web site, it indicates that we would gather at Bryant Park by The Boca Bovine on Tuesday August 29th at 11:30 a.m. I also would send out press releases to alert the media. I would like to hear from people on the list that they are interested in helping to spread the word. The cows are being picked up and put in a warehouse on or around September 4th prior to the auction which will take place live and on the Internet sometime between September 25 - 30. In addition, I have asked if we could borrow the cow from the Cow Parade people, to take her to The Parkinson Unity Walk in Central Park on September 24th. If I know that we have some support and people telling people they know in New York about sending in donations for which we will have t-shirts at the park, the gathering at Bryant Park can be additional publicity for Parkinson's. Bryant Park can have up to 5,000 people there at any given time. People come for lunch from their offices and to enjoy sitting in chairs set up on 8.5 acres of beautifully landscaped greenery. It has won many awards and is right smack in the middle of the business district between 5th and 6th Avenues and 42nd Street right behind the New York Public Library. Do you support our doing this or do you prefer we scratch the idea and just try to bring The Boca Bovine to Central Park to join the Unity Walk festivities. We can do both and have publicity on both occasions... but only if we have people supporting the idea. I would like to hear from you. I look forward to some feedback. Thank you for your input. Sincerely, Alison Landes Take Charge America - Cure Parkinson's, Inc. CG for Fran, sister, 46/45/43