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Dear ListMembers, We are running as fast as we can, to make an outreach opportunity as far-reaching and productive as possible. Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's has coordinated an outreach opportunity on Friday April 11, 2003, from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m., that we would like to make as productive as possible. A press release providing the highlights of the program, is copied below. Our computer volunteer, whose time is limited, as she just started a new job, will do her best to help us get important links on to our INFORMATIVE LINKS section prior to the program. It will be most helpful, if organizations having information pertinent to the largest number of people would send us a summary paragraph about the organization and the link that we can copy and paste onto the site. Please put POSSIBLE LINK in the subject box when you send the e-mail. We would also request that you let us know if you will cross-link our site which is www.cureparkinsons.org. April 11 is World Parkinson's Disease Day. It is the 6th Annual World Parkinson's Disease Day. Are we satisfied with the number of people out of any 10 or 20 people that we ask, who know that April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, let alone April 11 being World Parkinson's Disease Day? We will know Monday, if we will have a second half hour to extend the content of the program. The show airs live in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties in South Florida. The exciting aspect is that the program can be heard ANYWHERE in the world, via Internet, by logging on to www.WNNHealthTalkRadio.com and clicking on LISTEN-LIVE. The radio station is going to be announcing the program the entire week prior to airing it on Friday April 11. We would welcome your input and any ideas about how to make the most of this opportunity. If any of you would like to cut, paste and send the press release to your local newspaper MEDICAL/HEALTH EDITOR, that would be great. You might call your newspaper and ask for the name, telephone number, email address and fax number of the HEALTH/MEDICAL editor. If you would like us to send you the release as an attachment, let us know. TAKE CHARGE! CURE PARKINSON'S, INC. 1489 W. Palmetto Park Rd. Suite 442, Boca Raton, FL 33486 T-561.620.1970 F-561.395.0615 [log in to unmask] www.cureparkinsons.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Alison Landes 561.395.8424 On April 11, 2003, World Parkinson's Disease Day, grass roots charity to be featured on S.FL station WNN 1470 AM "Good Work" Radio Show, accessible world-wide via the Internet WHO: Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's, Inc. (TCCP), founder, Alison Landes, will be joined by Morton Kondracke, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease, Diane Murphy PhD, Program Director, Neurodegeneration Group of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), and Tom Berdine, president of Young Onset Parkinson's Association, on South Florida radio program, "Good Work". The program is hosted by non-profit fundraising consultants, Joy Siegel and Cliff Weidberg, and moderated by radio personality, Ron Hersey. WHAT: TCCP will share information about available resources and how people can support a ground-swell of grass roots efforts with national impact. For additional information log on to: www.cureparkinsons.org . WHEN: Good Work airs Friday April 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., the sixth annual World Parkinson's Disease Day. WHERE: 1470 AM radio in South Florida and world-wide via the Internet at www.WNNHealthTalkRadio.com . Click on listen-live. HIGHLIGHTS: Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call newspaper, co-host of Fox TV- The Beltway Boys, board member of Michael J. Fox Foundation and Parkinson Action Network will share insights and perspectives on Parkinson's. TCCP founder, Alison Landes, whose sister, Fran Landes, was diagnosed in 1998 in her mid-forties, will be in the studio along with Parkinson's patient, Maria James, a 41-year old mother of three, diagnosed at 32, and board member, Barbara Taege. Landes, Taege, and James will speak about TCCP's local, national and international outreach that is increasing awareness of Parkinson's disease, raising funds for research to find a cure and improving quality of life in the community. Tune-in, hear about scientific developments, the Parkinson's Bracelet of Hope, the Poetic Medicine Workshop, the traveling art-poetry exhibit, "With Parkinson's, Don't Order the Soup," to be hosted in cities nationwide by Parkinson's advocates in partnership with support groups, hospitals, national, regional and local sponsors. Hear how you can become a Friend of Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's - take charge, take action - tune in to 1470 AM radio in South Florida or visit www.RealTalkRadio.com on Friday April 11 at 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. - end - Alison Landes Founder/ Chair Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's, Inc. 1489 W. Palmetto Park Road Suite 442 Boca Raton, Florida 33486 Tel: 561.620.1970 Fax: 561.395.8424 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: www.cureparkinsons.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn