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hello to all and especially to you, mr. don mckinley!! just a few brief observations and a bit of news.... did you know that the time has come and gone for this year's Sidney Dorros Award? this award is given annually to a person for their outstanding work and commitement to the parkinson' community and comes with a cash prize of $5,000. i was the proud reciepient of the award last year but since i was on the selection commitee to pick this year's winner, i was unable to nominate anyone. i just assumed that with all of the candidates on this list (linda herman, murray charters, janet paterson and the granddaddy of pd-don mckinley!!!, carol hercun-among others) that we would have recieved at least one nomination. i guess that i should have helped to advertize this more aggresively. i'm not even sure that it is open to our canadian friends but i will check this out...for next year. so, please start thinking of someone who has influenced your life and plan to nominate them. don, i apologize for not keeping up with my end of our correspondence i can only use the excuse of being so busy that i can't keep up and i'm sorry that you're feeling abandoned. please email me so that we can re-start our friendship. for those of you living in the central illinois area, i am pleased to announce that we are planning a fundraiser for U.S. Representative Lane Evans. if you are unfamiliar with Lane and the work he has done (while dealing with pd), please check out his website: <http://www.laneevans.com/> this will be held at Kelleher's Irish Pub & Restaurant on the 25th of august. at this time, we are resonably sure that Ann Udall (daughter of the late Representative Morris K. "MO" Udall) will be speaking as well as Don Schneider, radio personality who testified before the Senate Sub-Committee with Joan Samuelson, Lonnie Ali & MJFox, will be our speakers. this is just a heads-up: we will post the details as soon as they are finalized. and finally, i wanted to tell you that i was in the hospital for five days last week with a very severe infection in my right knee. it is getting better-finally-but during discussion in the dumpster chat room, we feel that there is a real need out there for id bracelets and hospital check in kits-when the scarey thought hit me that no one (not even my husband) knew my meds routine. so if any of you have any ideas or suggestions that we could use to maybe make up some of these kits, kindly email me. i think that this is something that we never expect will happen to us. oh yes, i almost forgot, i have found out that i have been chosen as one of WEEK-TV's 25 women in leadership for 2002. i'm really excited about that!! -- Joan E. Blessington Snyder 50/11 http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm <[log in to unmask]> "Hang tough...........no way through it but to do it." Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn