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^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 48/12 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine Land of lighthouses 64 deg. F ******************************************************************** On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 04:09:26 -0400 Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Dear Edie and many other friends, > > It's 330 A.M. Here is a brief update on today's TV appearance, >which I am scheduled to make, playing golf for a CURE for Parkinson's >Disease. > > Today, Tuesday Sept 8, I expect to hear from Dave Eid, the Sports >News Director for CBS-TV's Portland station, WGME-TV. Dave has PD >going on in a member of his own family.. I talked to Barb, one of the >sports commentators, on the phone, Sunday evening, Sept. 6th, and she >told me that Dave is considering setting up a "line-feed" NATIONWIDE. >I hope that he does this. > > It seems a "line-feed" allows a local broadcast to be sent out (over >a modem line??) to any other CBS TV station. WGME-TV is 207 797-9330. >Sports news is 207 797-9099. > > Even when no line-feed is set up, the videotaped sports news >segment to be filmed at Riverside Golf Course later today can still be >requested by any CBS TV station for broadcast in your local area. If >you call your local CBS TV stations, and request the Sports Editor to >get the story aired, this will help all of us PWP's. > > The National Weather Service forecast from Gray, Maine calls for >scattered showers both today and tomorrow, with temperatures cooling >to the 60's.. Because this is to be an OUTDOOR film shoot, there is >some uncertainty as to whether the weather will allow the golf course >shots to be completed this afternoon. > > After I talk with Dave Eid, I will post a further update. > > Darwin and Hilary have already jumped in to be my biographer--as >Barb Mallut would say--"GEEZ!" >Meanwhile, keep your golf posts coming--the more locations that write >me, the bigger the story I can build about us to Dave Eid, and the >more support he would then have to set up a line-feed for this unique >Parkinson's golfing adventure. > > As Maryhelen Davila posted, this opportunity could not come at a >better time to increase awareness, and help us all push for full >funding of the Udall Act, now under careful consideration in Congress. > > Ivan Suzman 48/12 :-) > >^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Ivan Suzman 48/12 [log in to unmask] >Portland, Maine Land of lighthouses 64 deg. F >******************************************************************** > >On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:37:46 EDT "Edie Luther." <[log in to unmask]> >writes: >>Ivan - We are in the process of scheduling a CBS Baltimore interview >>to be >>aired >>the last week of Sept, This interview is to promote the Walk-a-Thon >>scheduled >>for October 3, l998, I will ask that your story be picked up by our >>tv >>affiliate. >>Richard Scher wanted to interview me, my husband and another PWP. As >>my pd is mainly inside (Most of the time I do not look like I have >pd, >>even >>though I have had it for over 20 years), I have asked a young >onset >>pwp to do the interview with another young onset pwp who shows the >>symtoms, >>Most people have a misconception of this disease, that it only >strikes >>the >>elderly, >>Edie Luther 64/20 >>