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Dear everyone, Team Parkinson has again been accepted as one of the official charities by the Los Angeles Marathon March 4, 2001! Plus we'll have a booth at the Quality of Life Expo at the LA Convention Center March 1,2 and 3. Laila Ali (the boxer) has joined Rodney Peete and Holly Robinson Peete as honorary co-captains. What is Team Parkinson? a non-profit effort organized by volunteers from Southern California Parkinson's groups. Our sponsors are the Parkinson Alliance and the Parkinson Unity Walk. All the different PD "org's" work together to raise funds for research for the cure. Last year (our first) we raised enough for a pilot program at University of Southern California (USC), thanks greatly to Mignone Trenary. How can you join? Volunteers are needed to ask local businesses, clubs, churches, and schools to put out our brochures. Please send me a note (PIEN members: off list, please) with your address and the number of brochures, and the number of display stands that you need. Or call toll-free to 1-877-735-2864. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to volunteer. To the dynamos, and to those with deep pockets: if you or your group can send in $1500 or more by February 7, 2001, you'll be on time for your name to be proudly displayed on our spiffy T-shirt. It would be great if we could have at least 26 names, one for each mile. Fund the research, find the cure, go team go! Or as we say in my family, "we're off like a herd of turtles!" Slow & steady wins the race. Mary Yost, recovering couch potato 52, diagnosed 1990, completed LA Marathon 2000 in 9hrs.18min. assisting Edna Ball, our energized Organizing Committee Chair [log in to unmask]