Dear Celia, What a coincidence??? In the week from 18 - 24 september, there several activities, so we can call it a Parkinson Action Week. From 18 - 22 september : a week filled with several courses about coping Parkinson some issues: learn how to cope by haptonomy (do you know this word? I don't but it was not in my dictonary, so I changed the dutch word into English) : Exchange of experiences : Medical explanations by a neurologist : Learn to cope with your feelings and actions : Look at the future or how to stay socially active Saturday 23 september : National day for the Young Onset. We call ourselves "YOPPERS" . This will be the third time and we are expecting more than 200 participants. Sunday 24 september : "Sponsorloop voor Parkinson", our superwalk for parkinson's, at the same time as the Canadian. We make it a happy day with some activities and we hope to collect a lot of money for some special projects : 1) The Dutch Brainbank 2) an amount to publish special folders 3) Special research projects 4) PIBI = Parkinson Information Bank International At least 500 people will be walking here (I hope) and the amount of money we think to collect is ca $25,000. Amongst these participants w're expecting some celebraties. The start is given by the dutch champion Marathon: Bert van Vlaanderen (2:10) We like to publish a brochure about the walk and have some information about Parkinson and walking/running. Any suggestions? In the week for/after the "Walk" a collection is made for 4 diseases and one of them is off course Parkinson. And we are planning more activities !!!! Some Belgiums and German Parkinsonians will walk with us. Next Year we should all walk on the same day!? If anybody has a suggestion for start and finish please put it on the list. Conclusion : two? walks this year : 24 september and 15 october : Join one of the walks or organize one yourselve! I have a confession to make : "I don't know what a snail-mail-address is", but my imagination is not too bad: It's probably the brown box where the postman puts the envelopes in, containing old but nice feeling papers. With stamps to give information about the country, the date, the person who mailed it: I LOVE SNAIL MAIL, but I would not anything on the NET. Can I leave some thoughts about the NET and the LIST after a few weeks of being connected? Kees Paap <[log in to unmask]> Snail Mail Address: Kees Paap Oudedijk 56 3612 AC Tienhoven The Netherlands phone : +31 3469 1021 fax/data : +31 3469 1017 e-mail : [log in to unmask] "These boots are made for walking" "Walk right back to me...." "Walk on"